Mary Lennox is clutching a book, today, as she enters the bar; she makes her way over to the counter, climbs up onto a seat, and sits down to flip through it, a faint scowl of a frown on her face
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It takes a little while for Mary to notice the scrutiny, absorbed as she is in her book; but when she does, she raises her head in order to stare directly back at the woman, her brow furrowed warily.
"Not exactly," Cordelia says, a little thoughtfully. "I'm a friend to several people who are of the Light, though. And I've run afoul of Blodwen Rowlands before, though she didn't think I'd remember."
One corner of Cordelia's mouth tucks in, a wry expression.
"I didn't. Will Stanton discovered what she'd done, and he undid it. And then we both kept secret that he'd undone it, so that Blodwen wouldn't have any reason to be wary of me."
"I think he and somebody else undid the spell on me, too," she says, after a moment, "because I saw them there, and I know that Dickon could not have done it - he does not have that sort of Magic."
A second later, her gaze by now fiercely intent: "Why should Mrs. Rowlands be wary of you?
Cordelia's tone goes thoughtful again. "I wondered that at the time. I thought she must have felt dreadfully threatened by me, somehow, to do something so extreme. Now I'm not so certain. She may have done it only because she could, and because she felt like it."
Mary shakes her head, a little; not in disagreement, exactly.
"I am not sure," she says, a little reluctantly. (Mary is not fond at all of being unsure of things.)
"I had thought she did things only because they were useful to her - I mean, that is what I thought after the spell was over. But I suppose I do not know very much about what she is really like, at all."
"I'm not sure anyone does," Cordelia says, a little soberly. "She did say something that made me think she felt threatened -- something about not being willing to lose her place here. She knew I was a friend of Will's, though, and evidently they're enemies from a long time back."
That could be why she's looking rather intently at Mary. Yes, that is the girl Blodwen left the bar with that night.
She seems to be all right.
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A little warily: "You were there, but I do not know why. Are you another one of the Light?"
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Trying to sound less intently interested than she is, just on principle: "Did she cast a spell on you, as well?"
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"I did not know she could do that," she says, a little nervously; then, with a determined scowl, she adds, "she will not do that to me.
How did you make it not work?"
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"I didn't. Will Stanton discovered what she'd done, and he undid it. And then we both kept secret that he'd undone it, so that Blodwen wouldn't have any reason to be wary of me."
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"I think he and somebody else undid the spell on me, too," she says, after a moment, "because I saw them there, and I know that Dickon could not have done it - he does not have that sort of Magic."
A second later, her gaze by now fiercely intent: "Why should Mrs. Rowlands be wary of you?
Do you know something that can hurt her?"
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"I am not sure," she says, a little reluctantly. (Mary is not fond at all of being unsure of things.)
"I had thought she did things only because they were useful to her - I mean, that is what I thought after the spell was over. But I suppose I do not know very much about what she is really like, at all."
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And Oats says that she is going to burn in a lake of fire forever, also."
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"Oats is a fundamentalist, I understand."
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"He is an Omnian," she says, pronouncing the word carefully.
"I do not know about fundamentalists."
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