thirty-sixth

[lifeandliesof]

[dictated. someone sounds very tired, but pleasant as ever]Hello, Paradisa

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[seeded_flame]

You didn't leave.

[lifeandliesof]

Hello, Mai.

I did not. Did you think I had?

[seeded_flame]

Yes.

[lifeandliesof]

It was the likeliest assumption.

How have you been?

[onlyanapple]

I didn't even notice you were missing. [LIES, ALL LIES]

Eligible bachelors are being auctioned off for dates. Whoever bids the highest gets the bloke. You know, an auction. [Pause. Chuckle] This is going to be an interesting night for you.

Congratulations on existing for another year.

[lifeandliesof]

No wonder; I do try to be unobtrusively as possible. [oh, Crowley]

[paaaaaaaaaaauuuse]

I... see.

[cough] It sounds pleasant. What will the money be going towards?

Thank you very much. What have you been doing with yourself, Crowley?

[onlyanapple]

I've noticed. Kids have been asking about magic and, well, there was just this large hole in basic magical knowledge for the residents. Sad, really.

I don't know, the date? I'm just in it for the fun of it.

Oh, you know me. Keeping myself in trouble, and all that.

[lifeandliesof]

Oh dear, oh dear. I'll have to go about rectifying that immediately. I can't imagine how it must have been.

Well. I don't suppose there's any harm in it... I'll give some thought to attending. You're being... auctioned as well?

As expected.

[save_the_souls]

I didn't know the castle could do that...[Oh jeez what if you can't conjure food; THE HORRORS]

[lifeandliesof]

[Oh Allen. :D] Neither did I. I did had a lot of time to think up of reasons why it would choose to, though.

[save_the_souls]

[He wouldn't last a day without whimpering]

What sort of reasons would that be?

[lifeandliesof]

I could have gotten the castle annoyed with me, as I was planning a little expedition to look into the border where powers start disappearing. I haven't acted on that, however. There is also the fact that I said some very unpleasant things to some people a few days before I was locked in. However, as that was castle induced, it would be very hypocritical of the castle to punish me for that.

[thoughtful pause]

But of course, Paradisa wouldn't care.

Or, the whole thing could have been a mistake, or just my bad luck. [small laugh]

[eyesweregold]

[how odd. and yet, not entirely surprising, at the same time...]

Welcome back. You've been signed up?

[lifeandliesof]

[Risika can chalk it up to punishment for his nosiness :3]

Thank you, Risika. It's nice to hear form you.

Ah-- yes, so it seems.

[eyesweregold]

[she was going to chalk it up to the Castle being a vindictive little bitch sometimes, but sure, that too.]

Then you're being auctioned for a date, and the money is going...
[oops, she can't quite remember]
into some kind of fund, I think.

[lifeandliesof]

[quiet laugh]

Some kind of fund sounds better than nothing. If it's for a cause, I don't suppose there's any harm in attending...

So strange, though.

[crawlngnmyskin]

[HOLY--]

--Professor?

[lifeandliesof]

[pause, then warmly]

Ah, you must be a new arrival, from my future. Please, do call me Albus.

[crawlngnmyskin]

[Agh, this place is so...agh. :\ But Hiiiii Professorrr.]

Er, alright.

[Never.]

...Have you been here long?

[lifeandliesof]

[having fun with the mind screw yet, Harry?]

Just about eight months-- a very eventful eight months. Yourself?