A puzzling development

[charming_cecy]

A young woman enters, dressed fashionably in the style of 1817. She doesn't seem to notice where she is at first due to the book she is busy reading. Those who can sense such things would most likely notice the substantial amount of magic surrounding her.

She walks halfway across the main room without once looking up from her book, deftly

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[mancalledspade]

Sam is taking a walk to try and clear his head, and happens to run across the new arrival. He takes a moment to absorb the pertinent details of her appearance and then says, around the cigarette. "Well, you'd have been the first. You want a place to sit down or a class of water or something, sweetheart?"

[charming_cecy]

"I beg your pardon?"

[mancalledspade]

He smiles a bit more, and lowers his cigarette. "Sorry. Left my manners in my other pants." He gives her a small half bow. "Samuel Spade, ex private detective, at your service."

[charming_cecy]

She bobs a small curtsey. "Cecilia Rushton, charmed."

[ebonyjaenelle72]

Well, that's very interesting. Jaenelle can feel the magic, but she can't really tell what it is. It feels fuzzy, the way wizard magic does. She examines the woman from her perch on the stairs for a few moments before standing and coming down the stairs. "I don't think anyone means to be here. They just are."

[charming_cecy]

"So I've heard."

[ebonyjaenelle72]

She smiles. "Good. So I don't have to explain all over again that I don't know where we are or how to get back." She pauses. "Pardon me if this seems rude, but are you aware that you are giving off a rather uncomfortable amount of magic? It's making my head buzz a bit."

[charming_cecy]

"I'm very sorry. I didn't know it might cause distress, I've never had anyone really notice it before."

[which_hat]

*wave* Hello! What are you reading? -oh, and what a lovely hat you have!

[charming_cecy]

"Thank you. It's called A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences by Ebenezer Sibly. It is also dry as toast."

[which_hat]

Oooooh, I've never read that one! May I look?

[charming_cecy]

"Of course."

[i_flynomore]

Lynette gazes at her, wiping her hands on her coveralls. She's calmer now than she has been, and in better azi form. "Sera?"

[charming_cecy]

"Actually, it's Cecilia."

[i_flynomore]

"It's a title, sera," with a quiet, humble tone.

[charming_cecy]

"Oh. Well. Was there something you wanted?"

[minaharker10_2]

*the presence of a book in her hands makes Mina automatically like her, and her voice is kind* I'm sorry. That is an unfortunately common predicament here.

[charming_cecy]

"I heard that from a few people already." She curtseys. "Cecilia Rushton."

[minaharker10_2]

*Mina curtsies in return* And I'm Mina Harker. It's nice to meet you, despite the unfortunate circumstances.