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[deadclumsy]

[The shock of pink hair attached to a young woman occupies the left half of the screen. It's obvious that she's had the crash course in use of these interesting devices, but that her familiarity with them is non-existent.

When she realizes she's not centered on camera, she scoots over a bit, double-checks, and then off she goes.]

Can't say I'm tickled pink with the theme of this particular party, but what choice've I got? I'm here, right?

[Her hands go up in a mocking 'you caught me' gesture.

Hah. Yeah, right. No one's getting off that easy. This isn't exactly what Nymphadora Tonks was planning to do with her day. Maybe if she'd had a little forewarning about being technically abducted, sure, she could have planned out using weird tech and having her soul stuck in a little dark purple stone on a ring.

She didn't get that luxury, though, so no one here gets the luxury of avoiding her questionable (and oddly mirthful) wrath.]

You see, the thing here is - I mean, the reason I've got my knickers twisted - is I was minding my own business when I got snatched up. If I hadn't been minding my own business, it'd be a different story. If I'd been hexing your turtle from a broomstick thirty feet up, sure, I could completely understand you lot being a bit miffed. Hexing a turtle's not on.

But me, I was just going through my daily rota as one does, completely innocent and not at all aware of cities on the backs of turtles.

Nevermind I was about to tuck in to my supper. That's just rude.

[With a dramatic sigh, she continues sympathetically:]

Oh, but I suppose you all couldn't help yourselves. It's the hair, isn't it? People just love the hair.

[All right; she's not that upset. Yet. She loves a good adventure, and either the reality of her predicament hasn't quite hit home - or she's going to save her fretting for a more private moment.]

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[peacefullywreathed]

[The man in the video has thin scars over his face and especially around his eyes, exactly as if something had, at one stage, blown up in his face. They may not be visible depending on the light, but if Tonks does see them they may explain why his gaze looks vaguely past the camera. It doesn't explain the look of amusement.]

Broomstick.

Let me guess: you're a witch.

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[deadclumsy]

[Hm. She's not sure if he's blind or not, but those scars don't look pleasant. She can't help but hope he didn't acquire them here.

Despite her misgivings, she tries to maintain a cheerful air.]

The broomstick gave me away, did it? Not the green skin and the great ugly wart on my nose?

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[peacefullywreathed]

[Spoilers: he did.]

My dear, even if you do have green skin and a great ugly wart it would be ungentlemanly to draw attention to that fact.

[She sounds young. Not a teenager, but not much older. Maybe Raine's age ohGodlet'snotthinkaboutthat. In the range of charmable, either way.]

I just have one, very important question: Do you use a wand?

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[whitelotustile]

Why would you have a broomstick thirty feet in the air? There isn't much sweeping to be done there.

[and it's not like they're aerodynamic]

But it is very nice hair.

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[deadclumsy]

[Be glad you kept that thought about aerodynamics to yourself, Iroh. Tonks has ~opinions~ about various broom models and their flight performance. She'll take that compliment with a grin, though.]

What else would you be using to get from the ground floor to thirty feet above a turtle's head?

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[whitelotustile]

Me personally, or in general?

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[backwordscompatible]

[...a broomstick? really?]

[Then again, this coming from the girl who got a kick out of dressing up in black and wearing pointy hats on Halloween, so there was only so much she could say about playing into the stereotype.]

Actually, you'd be surprised at how forgiving some people can be about the whole hexing thing. Not that I'm speaking from personal experience, or anything like that.

[She absolutely was.]

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[deadclumsy]

[Don't knock broomstick travel; a Firebolt is like a Ferrari if you know how to fly it.]

I don't know; if someone were hexing my pet, I'd be quite cross about it.

[Why, yes, she did just refer to a giant, city-carrying turtle as a pet.]

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[backwordscompatible]

[She doesn't need either of those things to achieve liftoff, tyvm]

Well, yeah.

There are some lines, you just don't cross. [/might also be a vegetarian because reasons] I don't care what the spell is supposed to achieve.

[highprofilerichkid]

At least you didn't get snatched up in the middle of stopping an apocalypse, or dying. Or both. Lucky you.

[Stop helping, Tony.]

Do you do a lot of hexing things from flying brooms, or is that some kind of weird metaphor?

[deadclumsy]

Think of it as a "Weirdest Case Scenario", concocted to do justice to the fact that I've been kidnapped to a city on the back of a giant turtle.

[highprofilerichkid]

You know, nobody's going to freak out if you do ride around on brooms throwing hexes.

[Is that what you do with hexes? Do you throw them? Cast them? Inflict them? Tony asks the hard-hitting questions.]

We've got people here who do way weirder stuff than that. There's an artificial intelligence, a necromancer, a living skeleton, a hellhound, the embodiment of winter... you get the picture. Unless you start hexing people who didn't have it coming, I don't think it'll be a problem.

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[irishthor]

[Broomstick = Witch, which means more magic. Wonderful. Shay's not overly bothered, in actuality. On average, most of the magic he's encountered has been good.]

Allow me to extend my apologies and sympathies on behalf of whatever force decided we would make good kidnappin' vicitms. Alas, we don't know what caused our sudden relocation, but the location could be worse.

[He bows his head slightly, emulating a full bow if they were in person.]

Shay Patrick Cormac, ma'am. Welcome to Keelial.

[1x polite Irishman for you, Tonks.]

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[deadclumsy]

Oh, don't get me wrong: the location's nice enough. Still, I'd have preferred to make my own holiday plans rather than have them thrust upon me.

[Oh, we're back at the name thing. At least she doesn't have to advertise her given name.]

Call me 'Tonks'.

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[irishthor]

[A nod.]

A pleasure.

[And a shrug.]

Coming here has been fortunate for some. Seems fate takes a dice-roll on when you get plucked.

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[lasergrenades]

[Pepper missed hearing most of what the newcomer has said because she's distracted by the pink hair, quickly to be overshadowed when she mentions the words 'broomstick' and 'hexing', because broomstick + hexing = magic = MORE MAGIC THIS PLACE IS SO COOL.]

Definitely the hair. Also, were you trying to make a pun or were you using 'tickled pink' as a serious turn of phrase?

[She's really trying to resist gushing over the - ]

You can do magic, too? Oh man, there are so many different people that can do magic here, it's incredible, what kind of magic is it?

[ - magic.]

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[deadclumsy]

[This? This right here is what her mother warned her about when it comes to Muggles and magic. Not the requests for impossible potions, not the stakes or gallows (though those were also included in the great Don't Tell Muggles talk every witch has when she gets old enough to understand.) It's the gushing, though, that really worried Andromeda.

Her mother always was a very serious woman, and she knew when it did no benefit to anyone to admire someone too much. Pedestals are shaky places.

...Still, it's nice to be admired, and Tonks really can't help herself. Good job, Pepper.]

Oh, you know, the normal kind. Mice into matchboxes, bubbling cauldrons, levitation spells.

[As she talks, her hair slowly and subtly shifts in color from pink to purple. She is eating this up.]

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[lasergrenades]

Wow! That is so mega cool! [Please excuse the fangirling. The fact that magic exists here, and elsewhere, is helping Pepper keep from falling apart, ironically. Rather than let its existence shatter her sense of reality, she's latched onto it like a cat that has decided your leg is a convenient climbing pole.] Can you show me? Is magic the same everywhere you come from? What happens to the mouse when it turns into a matchbox? Does it feel like a matchbox, or is it not even alive? What about when you change it back?

[And then Pepper notices the hair again. Her eyes get a little wider and she move closer to the console screen.]

Ohmygoshisyourhairmagictoo?

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[edgeoftheknife]

[Have an extremely pretty man in ur video screen--albeit an extremely pretty man with deep, dark circles under his eyes. He smiles and rests his chin in his hands.

When he speaks it's very obvious that he's yet another Irishman. It's the Irish invasion, Tonks. Be afraid.]

It is very nice hair. What sort of dinner was it?

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[deadclumsy]

[Oh, she does love pretty men, but what is it with all the Irish around here?]

It was stew, and that's why I'm cross about it. Do you know how often I get a home-cooked meal? Not very, I can tell you.

[edgeoftheknife]

[He chuckles]

Probably about as often as I did. My version of cooking was getting some Sanctuary lackey to fetch me take-out at two in the morning. It's a wonder my office didn't permanently smell of Chinese food.

...if you're still of a mind I could offer you a homecooked meal now, although I suppose that might be a bit forward of me.

[Not that that's ever stopped him before.]

[akito]

[ pretty kid with an androgynous voice that definitely sounds like someone has the flu, or some such nasty bug-- ]

I haven't tried pink hair yet, but it looks fun.

And, ah... welcome to Keeliai.

[deadclumsy]

You should try it. It is fun, especially when you get the older folks who give you the stink-eye over it.

[Cute kid. She likes them at this age; they're still open to new ideas, still hopeful, and have developed personalities.]

And thanks.

[akito]

It isn't strange where I come from... Or very strange here, either. The boy I liked at home kept falling for girls with pink hair. And here, the kedan can shapeshift to weird colours and textures.

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[jinzhong]

[Well, well, well! Jackie's going to try to be all smooth, but all he can come up with is--]

Whoa, nice hair! And yeah, uh. Don't hex the turtle. Whatever that means.

[NAILED IT.]