Multipup! / an interdimensional watering hole

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[tantric_slacker]

It's weird, or cool, or some combination of both, but Matt's awareness of auras has really been improving over the past year. He can't remember exactly when the change came-- it was probably too gradual-- but now, sometimes, he gets ... a sense, from people.

Therefore, he and his laptop and his sturdy economics textbooks (and his butterscotch chai) are eyeing Ariel with curiosity.

[inaclovenpine]

Ariel eyes him right back, over her (its? his? we'll go with her) wine.

[tantric_slacker]

Well, getting a sense of gender doesn't bug Matt as much as getting a sense of power.

"Evening," he says, raising his mug.

[inaclovenpine]

Oh, well as to that -- there's a great deal of power here, but it's been restrained somehow. Not voluntarily.

And how much power is Matt giving off?

"Good even," Ariel replies, warily.

[tantric_slacker]

At this point? Possibly more than he knows. There are no active spells here, not any that he's cast, but all the same he has about him the moderately interesting gleam of the human who knows more than he should.

He can't get a good fix on Ariel, and he hasn't really figured out how to try-- not without being invasive, unforgivably rude. He smiles apologetically.

"Sorry-- do you want to be left alone?"

[inaclovenpine]

"If I were after loneliness, there's more than one fine promontory where I'd find a peace." She cocks her head and sips her wine. "A piece of time away is all I sought."

[tantric_slacker]

"Sure," Matt agrees easily, smiling at the way she (he? she) talks. "It's definitely the right place for a piece of time. Or a peace, I guess."

[inaclovenpine]

Points for getting the wordplay -- but he still feels like a sorcerer to her, so she can't be easy around him yet.

"Ay. How came you here, sir?"

[tantric_slacker]

"By accident," Matt says, with a rueful twist to his lips.

"I thought I was having a hallucination, a walking dream-- but it turns out it was real. Lucky me, huh?"

There is no sarcasm there; this is one of the best things that's happened to him since Aleister Crowley.

[inaclovenpine]

"Just luck?" Her lips twitch at a private joke. "Not set adrift between the worlds, were you?"

[tantric_slacker]

"It's ... slightly more intentional now."

Which is sort of a joke of his own, if not much of one.

All about the puns tonight, Mr. Jamison.

"Though I hear that does happen to people."

[inaclovenpine]

She eyes him.

"It seems to happen oftener than not to those who practice magic."

[tantric_slacker]

At that remark, Matt straightens a little, and grins self-consciously.

"You can tell, huh."

[inaclovenpine]

She blinks at him. "Of course."

Duhface.

[tantric_slacker]

Matt laughs.

"Sorry-- spirit, right?"

[inaclovenpine]

She arches her eyebrows at him. "You can tell, hah?"