And now... owls.

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((Link goes to a post in Mayday's journal. Didn't want to spam the comm with a socking.))

After a shower, a good night's sleep and another awkward meeting, Jaime managed to get some breakfast and make his way to the Owlery without further incident

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Return owl, looking absolutely blissful and a bit in love

[nicknamegirl]

Of course the offer still stands! When would be a good time for you?

Lola

[nicknamegirl]

Exploding beets? Declaring war? ...Yeah, that sounded like Tomo. "You'll be re-evaluating your definition of 'normal' after a while around here," she said, a corner of her mouth curving up. "Tomo's nice. Very, um, energetic." That was putting it mildly.

The blush did not receed. If anything, her face grew hotter. Well, he didn't appear to be freaking out, which was a plus... Or he just did a really good job at hiding it. There were no doubts whatsoever that he believed her, though, which was a bit unexpected. She wondered what his secret was... Was it weirder than hers? Probably. He was tapped into some power-source that she couldn't pinpoint, and it was making her both extremely curious and a bit nervous. She didn't think that the energy was evil, but since it was something so completely different from everything she knew it was difficult to tell

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To be honest, had he met Lola a year and a half ago, before the scarab and the Crisis and the lost year and Peacemaker's increasingly weird stories, he might have been freaking out. Instead, he was just at a loss for words. At times, the scarab's ability to scan for practically anything was fairly handy. It just had no sense of timing or personal space. (To say his secret was weirder was an understatement, really.) "I'm not freaking out so much as - I think my brain's trying to start up again," he finally said. "And failing. A lot."

"My definition of normal's being updated by the hour," he added. "And things were already pretty weird before I got here. Unless you already know about that," and seeing her blank look, "or not." It explained why she hadn't run in the other direction, but unfortunately it meant he'd have to try to explain it

[nicknamegirl]

Okay. Not running away. Hey, always a plus. Lola made a little face. "I get that. It takes some getting used to, for most people." Well, for all people, really, except other angels.

So, his life had been pretty weird before? Her interest was piqued even further, and her lips twitched into a bit of a careful smile. "Yeah, outside would be good. We'll find a calmer place." Lola thought for a moment, running through her mental list of Places To Go. The lake was a good bet. The ground might be a little damp, but it was one of the calmer places on the school grounds, and it was such a nice day. Perfect for the game called Revealing Weird Things About You!

"The lake is nice," she said, gesturing at the door. "Come on!" The angel began to walk again, glancing at him occasionally, not for the first time at Hogwarts wishing that she could still read minds. Clearly Jaime was used to weird things. The question was just how weird. And she wondered what his story was, if she was going to be able to deal with it... Lola had experienced a lot of

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((And I still have time to workninja, but I will be disappearing after this til that later time. Until them, look, a canon pimping post! ))

Jaime had accepted that Lola was an angel, but he hadn't let the idea sink in to the point where it brought up a lot of painful questions. Most of which began with "why." This was probably a good thing. Besides, if she didn't know his story, then she wouldn't be able to answer a lot of them. He wasn't entirely sure how the scarab had confirmed her story, but the response essentially came down to If we can scan for magic and see astral projections, we ought to be able to see angels. The scarab hadn't been able to pin that down until Lola essentially told it what to look for. Which made sense. Around here, there were a lot of possibilities to cover