Riots SUCK. (Open!)

[my_soul_itches]

San Francisco was rioting.

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[noseymaddie]

The mun was sorely tempted to send in a predator...

But, a Maddie is much friendlier option.

While not really used to the wings thing since the mun can't think of another character with them that Maddie's met, the ear thing wasn't that weird...I mean, there's Ryuk and Kurama to go by for weirdness. Though, those might not be good comparisons as they both get off on harassing Maddie. Anyways, the mun rambles.

"Are...are you okay?" Maddie asked. "Maybe we should get you to the hospital wing? Or, there's supposed to be some kind of medicine seller around here..."

[my_soul_itches]

Had Megan known of Maddie's mun's tempting, she would express her extreme gratefulness to avoid yet another harmful person today. There really is a limit to how much ill-will someone can take in one day.

"Yes. No. Um." Megan closed her eyes and started to shake her head, but stopped at a particularly awful throb of pain. The adrenaline from the riot and from 'porting back was fading, leaving her feeling shaky and confused. "I would really, really appreciate help right now." And remembering the mysterioius, harmful "she," she asked, "You've never attacked anyone in a hallway, right?"

To hell with subtlety. She was tired.

[noseymaddie]

The predator is in a bad mood from the chocolate plot...and the mun swears she'll never write a Southern Belle again.

"Attacked anyone in a hallway?" Maddie said. "No, absolutely not," she assured the girl. "What happened to you?" she asked gently. Maddie's seen the bad side of Hogwarts, or parts of it, at any rate.

[my_soul_itches]

"Good." Not that a simple "no" was a wonderful reassurance. Still, it was enough for now. "There was a riot in San Fransisco, and I got hit, and I came back here. And now I think I'm lost again. Stupid castle." She didn't mean it, not really. Hogwarts was, if nothing else, a really awesome castle. But the whole mysterious, magical, moving-staircases aspect of it was much less cool and much more annoying when you were looking for one specific place.

She wasn't going to cry. She wasn't going to cuss. She was an X-man, and she could handle getting punched in the head and being lost in a place she hadn't been back to in more than a year. She'd faced a lot worse than this.

[noseymaddie]

Maddie looked around. "I...ummm...we can get you to the hospital wing, I'm sure," she said. She dug around in the shapeless sack that was her purse and a pack of tissues. "Here," she said, holding them out.

No water, though...not a desert rat, this one...

[my_soul_itches]

"Thank you," she said, glad to be handed something disposable after ruining Ms. de Winter's beautiful handkerchief. She looked around, hoping that maybe they'd installed water fountains after she'd left, but couldn't find any. Instead, she hesitated and turned a little so that it would be harder for the woman to see her spit on a kleenex and try to wipe her face gingerly. Gross.

"I'm Megan."

[noseymaddie]

"Maddie," she replies. Now, the hospital wing...if she finds the Great Hall, she can get there...or, who knows, she may end up in front of the Diviniation professor's door.

"I think it's this way," she said gesturing down the hall.

[my_soul_itches]

"Wonderful," she said, following along only a little shakily. She wished that flying wasn't making her so dizzy and disoriented right now; it would have been a much smoother trip.

[noseymaddie]

This'll probably be a dumb move, but Maddie's not always fleet of...tongue.

"You don't look like that sheeneegamee creature or any of the demons around here," she said. She looked over at Megan. "I don't suppose it matters," she said, trying to erase her words.

Because, yes weird looking, but...have you seen Ryuk? And he makes a game of it.

[my_soul_itches]

"I'm not a demon or a... whatever the other one was that you said. I'm a mutant." She tried to make it sound defiant, but didn't quite succeed. It had been a long day so far. "It kind of does matter, because that's why I got beat up in the first place."

[noseymaddie]

"Ah, what I meant is that you're a person...as much as any demon or sheeneegamee is a person...though I doubt it with that sheeneegamee." She sighed. "But, I know that there's a lot who can't be bothered to find out if someone's a person first."

Sadly, there are those who are ...and the mun will shut up before there's a soap box involved.

[my_soul_itches]

"Mutants are people," she said, her voice flat and her hands balled into fists. "We're born from human parents." At least, the first generation was. "We can have kids with regular humans." Privately, she wondered about that now. None of the mutants she'd known had had a baby since M-day, with a regular human or a mutant as the other parent. "That's really all we are, regular people with a little something extra."

[noseymaddie]

"Of course you're people," Maddie said. At least the ones that aren't murderers. Maddie's not sure if murderers should be called 'people'. But, that's beside the point. And, the weirdos at Hogwarts have made her a little more open minded. "And, there's all kinds of people," she adds. Dead people...demon people who make fun of her...strange little girls with sticking out pig tails...

[my_soul_itches]

"Yeah, there are." Her shoulders slumped. God, she hated this. "So have you been here a long time?"

[noseymaddie]

The mun had to go look....she's been tormenting poor Maddie for over a year now...poor Maddie...

"Just over a year," she said. Then, inspiration struck. "There's this bloke, Lezard. Be careful of him. He thinks he's some kind of god and..." she shudders. It was a bad date. "He is...rather fond of fungus," she adds, choosing one of his sins. "And of making people eat it 20 meters in the air over the astronomy tower...and making doors open into places that they didn't before. It'd be best to avoid him."

Yes, Lezard traumatized Maddie.

[my_soul_itches]

"I guess you must have gotten here right around the time I left for a while." Megan certainly didn't remember her, not that it really meant much. She hadn't met all that many people before she'd gone back to visit her grandparents in Abergylid and gotten sidetracked into becoming a full-fledged X-man.

"Lezard? He's a god?" Wow. That was just weird. "That sounds... really very odd. Yeah, I'll do my best to avoid him. What does he look like?" Having never received a description of the girl who had attacked Ms. de Winter's son and was therefore a possible threat, she wasn't going to make the same mistake twice.