MaraTwasHere
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“Well, according to the article on the school’s website the  ‘school of binding’ actually was around during the Salem Witch Trials.” She led them across the hall, unfolding the map she’d shoved in her pocket earlier. “Briefly, they talk about how Human Witch Hunters discovered the school and tried raiding it several times. Other Supernatural creatures, including witches, were hired to guard the school and glamor was blanketed over the building to help hide this place from humans eyes.” She bit her lip thoughtfully. “There wasn’t a lot more on that Salem Trials part, but I bet there must be records of the occurrences somewhere…maybe in one of the libraries..” She laughed nervously. “That’s the geek comin’ out of me, mates. Sorry.”
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Piper looked between the two, “How about we do both…? At the front of the school there’s  a few benches. I’m sure there’s rocks out there, too Goldmyth.” She started to head that way, nodding. “Yeah, sound good?” She watched as a boy wearing poofy bright zigzagging colorful pants and a fancy gold headdress strutted in, jingling with his every step. “Ah! Yes, yes! This place is so much cooler compared to India!” He was saying in a thick accent, grinning. “…Wow,people really come from all over. No wonder he’s a day late–coming from India and all.” She murmured, realizing students were still entering the school.
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“Yeah, well.” She shrugged. “I’ll send for the paper anyway.” Piper raked a hand through her hair. “So now that we know more of the school, what should we do?”
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“Mhm,” She stopped in the hallway since they hadn’t really decided on where they were going yet. “Legend has it in Japan that if you fold or receive  a thousand cranes good luck will be bestowed onto you…Good luck, recovery from an illness, or a healthy long life. So it’s kind of a thing for ill or injured people in hospitals to fold them in hope of recovery.” Her eyes glittered as she ‘taught’ them. “In Japan, Cranes are considered a pretty mystical creature, and in Japanese legends they’re noted for living a thousand years. Which is why for good luck there’s a thousand cranes–to symbolize each year.” She grinned, folding her arms. “Maybe we can send for oriental paper sometime and do some origami.”
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Off to the side of the hall Aurora listened into the conversation about the thousand cranes, noticing the new male member in the group of three. The polite, nice, Liv who’d picked up her sushi and the ruder girl who’d knocked them down. Piper was the one blathering her mouth off to probably something irrelevant, but the information was interesting since Aurora knew nothing of Japan.
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“That totally fits you, Miss. Let Me Eat This Rock,” Piper grinned, tugging at her ponytail holder so her dark hair showered down around her. “Aaand…” She exchanged her hairband for her phone in her pocket. “It’s only like 1:30. We should do something, eat? Or maybe go into the lounge?” She straightened her hair out so it was sort of tousled more so on one shoulder now. “Or we could go bother Orthelo in the library’s store. I’m pretty interested in those paper cranes, they’re supposed to bring good luck.”
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“Careful, Liv.” Piper murmured as she followed closely behind.
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Aurora grapple up the last step, huffing. This was a school bonding but clearly no students respected familiars yet. “They’ll learn, when they get a familiar.” She growled, lowering her head to the grown before slinking to the edge of the hall and plopping down.
(Okay my lovely marshmellowy floods of happiness things. Time to start thinking about what characters will bond. So take interest in familiars and students. 🙂 )
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Piper giggled at Goldmyth and Ace. Rows of people began to string out of rows and pound up the stairs toward the breakfast room. Piper tightened her ponytail, watching with her contact eyes as a arctic fox ducked and dived around feet in her ascent up. “So, Goldmyth, what classses did you take?” She asked, standing with the rest of their row to go out in a line.
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Aurora levitated the pen to write in “Ice breakers, spellsinging, study hall, and circle magic, and illusionary.” She wrote her name on it afterwards and where she came from since she really didn’t have a last name.
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Piper struggled to keep her eyes on her own paper. It would be difficult, knowing she might not have the same classes as her friends for the first couple of semesters, but she was sure she would find people interested in the subject like her, so they would already have something in common. Using the lame, no eraser, pencil they’d given her she scrawled ‘Illusionary, Â Ritual Magic, Transfiguration, Potions ect, Circle magic, Â and charms.’ along with her name. She quickly creased her paper shut, as if sealing her fate. A circle that said ‘flick here’ at the bottom of her fold appeared and she flicked it. Red bled through the paper as she realized her finger was pricked. “Ow…” This school was so weird. The blood pooled and thickened to a red wax seal with the letter “P” stamped on it. With that, it sprouted wings and whisked away. “Charms, transfiguration, Illusionary Ritual magic…um…Oh, yeah, Circle magic and Potions.”
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Piper snapped her fingers. “That’s right, you were reading that shapeshifting book earlier. That’d be pretty cool to be a witch-shapershifter…except other shape shifters call you a fake, but I say if you can shift then do it.” She grinned lopsidedly. “Well, I suppose that would be the way to go. Unless you were doing shadow magic and light magic, the two would eventually get no where because of all that energy in one body…Aw, thank you Ace.” She smiled gratefully. “But my features are all a bit too dark with the hair and all. Its nice to have a pop of color.” She ranted, the girly-girl emerging in her again. “Besides, they also aid my seeing without having to wear bottle-thick glasses.” She chuckled as Ms. Claude led them up another flight of stairs.
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<i>Alchemy room, Destruction and sparring room (basically the gym), the swimming pool for water majors, the obstacle course for bonded (which some were actually going through the course and it did look a bit complicated…), basics of magic polishing up class, ‘what path to take’ class. They went through all of the rooms, popping in and saying hi to the all to bright teachers or ones who slumped around in dusty rooms barking at anyone who came near the threshold. By the time they’d gone through all the rooms and squeezed past oncoming groups in tight corridors…one student nearly falling off the tricky stairs that would at times go invisible just to mess with you…they finally came to the Auditurium around 12. “Alright, here you are, forms for every one to fill out what classes they want to be in. Please remember that if you see any classes you would be taking at a basic magic school feel free to take them here so you won’t have to do so later.” Forms of papers floated through the air to students rolled up as they filed down the rows in the auditoruium, where Ms. Vine was already up on the stage with a display of classes beside her and basics on what they did.</i>
(Okay. So I’m going to actually make a ‘example of classes sheet’ but if anyone wants to make up classes to better suit your character’s course that’s 100% okay.)
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“Well, I’m sure not literally in the library is where we’re going to meet our bonded.” She laughed a bit, looking over at Liv. “And like you said earlier, we have all year to find our bonded. Although, I would prefer to find mine sooner…It’ll be trouble for the plans I have for later.” She smiled knowingly, hoping her friend got the reference. “And I’m Piper. Sorry for not telling you earlier. Slipped my mind.” She followed the teacher out into the hallway. “I really don’t know right now. I mean, shadow magic and necromancy comes naturally to me, but do I really want to go down that path? My mum is a marine biologists…she’s a master in water…and my dad is a doctor…as you may think, he masters in healing. They’re both so light compared to me, who seems to be becoming a darkest major.” She looked them unsurely, “What do you  guys want to major in?”
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“Same.” Piper laughed.
“Mr. Orthelo, our second year upperclassman, will be working in the libary here at night.” Ms. Claude said, waving to the stocky red-head boy behind the counter displaying hamster erasers and winged pencils. He didn’t even bother looking up from the book his nose was jammed into, labled “Alchemy for the fittest”. Instead, he waved a bit almost like shooing them off toward the end.
“Alright, if you’re all ready to move on…”
(Do you guys want to time skip over this and just mention where they headed to? This might be a while.)
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“Cool. Ace.” She grinned at him, before moving forward to follow Gold and Liv. Ms. Claude led them out into a hall with the torches from a few days ago lining it. Except now they glowed a bright gold. Taking the students up two flights of stairs she led them into a entry way to a library. “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the left wing school library.” Books flew from shelf to shelf, putting themselves back into their alphabetic order. “Here you can do research on the magic course you plan on majoring in and study late nights.” She let the students fan out and look around a bit before snapping her fingers and making the entry way to the supplies store in the library glow. “Over here you can buy supplies. Pencils, pens that never run out of ink, telegram paper to send letters back home since your phones don’t have service here, if you hadn’t noticed,” She smiled at a girl who gasped as she checked her phone. “We prefer not to let any distractions come when you’re searching for your bonded…”
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“Of course.” She smiled, and moved over to the table they were originally at to grab her apple juice. “I work with darker magic. Necromancy, Shadow magic. I dunno I guess it would be a bit weird that someone like me does that sort of magic, but whatever. Stereotypes are stupid.” She smiled at his shadow. “I also see you practice in a similar art. Hey! Goldmyth, Liv, meet…” She put a hand forward for the mystery boy to say his name.
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Groups of smaller size had gathered before a teachers went and rounded the smaller groups into large ones before leading them out. A woman with black hair and a dingo for a familiar moved over to the group of three girls and one boy, bringing a crowd behind her. “All right, come on you four. We’re going to tour the school so you can find anywhere to where to buy clothes to a quiet place to study. We will also show you places that are strictly forbidden, so play close attention please. By the way, I am your vice-mistress, Ms. Claude.”
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“Yeah. You wanna grab a bagel to go?” She asked, turning to look and raise her eyebrows at her friends, almost as if asking for permission to come with them.
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“Uh…You realize you’re like twice my size, right?” She rose a brow, holding a hand toward him to help him up. “Oh god, you’re lucky you’re wearing black. That orange juice would have looked way worse if it were any other color.” She handed him some napkins.
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<i>”Hello my precious students!” Ms. Vine stood on a cafe table, where students stared up at her bewildered. She always seemed to need to be physically higher up then the rest of the students. “Now, your lovely teachers will begin to show you around. Please everyone get into groups of people you want to travel with.”</i>