Dream 01 ❀ "Wishing you were somehow here again"

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Effects: A sense of longing and hopelessness that turns to a bit of anxiousness and excitement with a few moments of an unsure feeling.

[There's an odd scent in the air. Burning incense. Not a normal scent to burn either. What is it? You might not want to know. But there is a girl lighting candles in a dim little basement of a room with a hopeful

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[Well...

As interesting as the whole thing with Vincent could be, Leo is far more interested in everything else. After all, such knowledge is, to him, more interesting than whatever personal business anyone has. It's hardly something he should ask about, anyway.

But the rest...]

Miss Ada? What were you doing?

[He's inviting you to ramble all you want, Ada. Grab the chance.]

You never seemed the type...

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[And now Leo too...]

Oh! Ah...

[There was no point in trying to fool him, was there? Even if he didn't know much, she was sure he was smart enough to figure out what sort of thing it was that she had been attempting to do.]

I suppose I don't. [She laughs a bit, eyes downcast.] But then... I suppose that's why no one would have ever guessed. [And why it had been a secret all this time. At least... until now.]

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[Shrug. If you think he's judging, he's really not.]

So? What was it?

[He's honestly curious.]

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It was... just a... summoning ritual.

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A summoning ritual?

[It's quite clear that his interest is piqued, by the way he perks up.]

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Yes... I was thinking that maybe... in a place like this... it might work.

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[So he's not going to ask why it is that Vincent matters so much to her that she needs to do that, because it's hardly difficult to figure it out. This is much more interesting than whatever personal matters she has anyway.]

You do a lot of things like this?

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[And she's happy that he doesn't, because explaining this to someone who sounded genuinely interested was more fun then facing the truth about her personal life.]

Well, not since coming here. I've considered it... back home I used to study all sorts of magic.

[She's starting to loosen up... and the more she does... the more she'll talk.]

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You did?

[Yeah, she really... never seemed the type. That's suspicious stuff, and she's such a... proper woman, outwardly? Huh.]

Like...?

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My uncle gave me a second home just for myself... and for guests, since I wasn't allowed to invite them to the main house. So I spent a lot of time there. It had to be a secret, so I chose to study in the basement. Before long I had collected a large number of artifacts and now, the basement is full of books and various treasures. And no one else knows.

[Too bad you'd never gotten the opportunity to see it Leo, it was quite impressive.]

Fortunes, spells, rituals, mysterious artifacts, arcane torture... the occult is made up of many things.

[...yeah now she's starting.]

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[It sounds quite impressive.

Really, he would prefer to read books about it now that he feels interested, but he wouldn't count on there being anything much about it here. So talking to Ada it is.]

Does all of it work?

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Well I've only tried a few things... [It needed to be kept low profile after all, and she had to be careful of 'accidents'.] But what I have tried has been fairly reliable. And well... since coming here... I thought about trying some other things, since it could be better concealed without those back home finding out.

[She'd thought about it. Extensively. In her free time of course.]

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Better concealed how?

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Well Somarium is a large place, I'm sure there's somewhere... or... if not... perhaps even with a lock.

Back home someone might be more inclined to find a locked room like that suspicious, but here, if it was in the right place, I'm sure no one would think anything of it. And if it was secluded and private then...

[I'm sure you can imagine. Anything could happen. And even if discovered... they couldn't be punished like they could have been back home.]

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...

That doesn't sound too bad.

[Nice and quiet.]

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Right?!

[He agrees with her. She's so happy. Then maybe it isn't just a silly longing, maybe she could, here.]