First spell → Video

[bookish_lioness]

[The PCD turns on, showing a rather dirty, surprised young girl with a mess of curls, blinking at the screen.]

That’s… odd. It appears to be some sort of video camera. I suppose I’ve lived among the magical community so long that I haven’t realized how advanced technology has become.

[Her voice is a low murmur; it’s obvious that she doesn’t realize

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[video]

[idkmybffkyouya]

I can't possibly allow that! A beautiful young girl, tired after only just arriving! Please, don't worry, miss. Suoh Tamaki, King of the Host Club, is here to answer all of your questions forthwith!

[video]

[bookish_lioness]

[Just-... give her a minute to cease blinking at this-... this-... whatever this is.]

Er-... I'm sorry? I don't believe I know you... nor what you're talking about.

[video]

[idkmybffkyouya]

Ah, of course, you wouldn't, but that's hardly any excuse to ignore propriety. I only mean to say you have no need to worry. I, your gorgeous knight upon noble steed, am here for you 100%.

[video]

[bookish_lioness]

[Oh wow, you remind her of a former professor she used to have a girlish crush on, so she's trying very hard not to dislike you immediately.]

Um... thank you, then, I suppose. You wouldn't happen to know how I would get back to where I should be, would you? It's a little place in northern England called Shell Cottage; my friend was trying to get me there rather desperately, and so I take it he missed his mark.

[video]

[idkmybffkyouya]

Hm. I've certainly been to England before, but I don't recognize the name at all. [He seems to be thinking very hard about this. Whatever people may say about him, they certainly can't accuse him of not caring.] But I don't know if it's possible. If anyone could go back whenever they like, there wouldn't be so many unhappy people here!

[video]

[bookish_lioness]

Are you saying we're trapped here? Is it some sort of magic?

[video]

[idkmybffkyouya]

You see, it's like Wonderland. [This is what you get for asking Tamaki questions when he had Adstring explained to him by a seven year old girl.] The evil animus led you down the rabbit's hole! You've fallen too far to climb back up, so now you have to wander through the world and find another way out.

[video]

[bookish_lioness]

[Just... what?]

I-... I'm fairly certain that no one led me anywhere. If anything, I might have been forcibly parted from someone who was trying to take me somewhere, but, as I was mostly comatose at the time, I don't think the white rabbit reference quite fits.

[video]

[idkmybffkyouya]

Well, yes. None of us were really led here. We all sort of just woke up here. But it's a metaphor! A metaphor!

[video]

[bookish_lioness]

Technically, by saying that it's 'like' Wonderland, you turned it into a simile. But that's just being nitpicky. The more important thing is why we were brought here.

[video]

[idkmybffkyouya]

[Ouch. But this is a lady, here. A very intelligent lady who needs reassurance.]

If only I could answer that question with something of more substance! Unfortunately, it seems our hosts are cruel and fickle beings with designs only to dash our hopes for their own entertainment.

[video]

[bookish_lioness]

[An intelligent lady who's just been tortured to near-insanity and so has little in the way of her usual manners left. Something that she'll apologize profusely for once she's well enough to.]

I don't fancy myself a plaything, and neither should any of the others who have found their way here.

[video]

[idkmybffkyouya]

Yes, you're completely in the right!

[Zombies, Hermione. Bitey zombies.]

[video]

[bookish_lioness]

... judging by what you've said, though, I don't suppose my fancy much matters.

[video]

[idkmybffkyouya]

But it does! You can't give up! [Fistpump!] If people start thinking that way, then it really will be true.

[video]

[bookish_lioness]

The power of optimism only has so much sway.