Application: Dawnstar, Legion of Super-Heroes

[x_dawnstar_x]

Dawnstar stepped into the time portal the Legion had opened in Superman's Fortress of Solitude, leaving the 21st century behind. Light enveloped her, and she stepped out

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[my_soul_itches]

Megan fluttered over from her own Sorting. "Hey! Someone was just talking to me about a Legion! And you have wings! Are you... um, what did he say... Star-something or something-star, I'm sorry, I can't remember. Nice to meet you, thought! I'm Megan! I used to be a New X-man but the team got dissolved so I came here instead to learn magic. Can you do magic?"

[x_dawnstar_x]

"Star Boy, perhaps? Or Starman, he calls himself in this time. I sense he is nearby." She smiled. "Hello, Megan, I am Dawnstar. I know no magic, but one of our fellow Legionnaires does, the White Witch. Is that what this place is for, learning magic?"

[my_soul_itches]

"Starman! Yeah, that was it! He had a sparkly suit. I thought it looked cool. It's nice to meet you! My code name's Pixie, so you can call me that if you want. The White Witch? We have a Scarlet Witch but nobody's seen her since M-day and it's probably for the best. She could do magic too, and it caused a lot of problems because she went crazy. Yeah, this place is a magic school! I'm hoping it's easier to learn than the spell I know. I also hope I don't have to hang upside-down to learn it all. Oh, but you don't have to take a vow of silence here, even if this really mean scary guy said I had to but nobody else mentioned it so I'm pretty sure I believe them instead." Megan finally stopped to inhale.

[x_dawnstar_x]

Dawnstar grimaced, remembering being sixteen and on her own for the first time at the Legion Academy. "Adults sometimes like to make jokes at young ones' expense. I've never thought it very funny. Once I went to the place where the White Witch learned magic, the Sorcerors' World. It was very strange...the landscape was constantly changing."

She glanced around, suddenly connecting some of the oddities of this place with the oddities of the Sorcerors' World. Up to then she had not had a mental classification for "how magic places feel," but she was quickly building one.

[my_soul_itches]

"Yeah, Limbo was kind of like that, and everything was on fire. I didn't like it at all." She saw Dawnstar glancing around, and added, "This place is a lot nicer! I mean, I've only seen the front lawn and this room, but there's forests and a lake and I don't think there's any fire at all! At least, not where it shouldn't be!"

[x_dawnstar_x]

She nodded. "They seem to have gone to some trouble to make us comfortable. Whoever 'they' are. I hope that's a good sign."

[my_soul_itches]

"I do too! I mean, this is a castle! If you have a school in a castle, it should be as awesome as possible, right?"

[x_dawnstar_x]

Dawnstar nodded, although her idea of a school was an airy, modern campus on Montauk Point. "Have you any idea what happens now that we are here? I have not met any teachers or administrators yet, just students."

[my_soul_itches]

"I don't really know! I mean, I know someone tells us whether or not we get in, but I don't know who. And I guess the students vote you somewhere. I've got voted to places called Gryffindor and Squib so far!"

[x_dawnstar_x]

"Well that explains the questions on this," she said, tapping the stack of applications. "Or it would if the questions made any kind of sense. Bartending? In the dark?"

[my_soul_itches]

"Yeah, I don't really get that one either. Or the one about picking who someone's supposed to marry or who you'd hit on if you came back from the dead. That's kind of a weird question to ask people coming to a school, don't you think? I though that there would be more questions on what you can do so they'll know whether you need to be in remedial classes or something. I mean, this is a magic school, not a bartending school or a dating service! Right?"

[x_dawnstar_x]

"Right. In fact this form never even mentions magic. Very odd." She glanced up and sent her tracking sense outward to make sure the fix she'd gotten on her fellow Legionnaire earlier was still there. It was. "I wonder what Brainiac 5 made of it."

[my_soul_itches]

"I... don't know who that is. But I only just got here, too."