mingle post? mingle post. MINGLE POST!!

[carreau]

Who: you
Broadcast: if you want
Action: also if you want
When: right. goddamn. now.

[ It's a mingle post. IN SPACE.

Just comment and tag around. ]

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[ladiesss]

Well, good! I am solidly on the side of everyone being friends here.

[phew... now that she's mostly clean, she straightens up...]

Um, hey... If it's not weird, can I ask how old you are?

[rebella]

( Eyebrows lifting, Ella blinks. )

I don't see how it's strange to ask, as long as you're planning to answer in turn. ( She smiles. ) I've seen sixteen years by now.

( It's a nice, technically marriageable age. For all she'd told Char she was too this, too that to be married yet.

Too blessed with a gift that could hurt everything beyond them, not just him. )

[ladiesss]

Whoa, really? [she seems really surprised!] I thought you were way older! I mean, not in a bad way, I mean, uh--I'm just saying that you seem, uh, really mature for your age and stuff...

[rebella]

( This just makes Ella laugh because that's something she can imagine enough people not agreeing, though Mandy might, by now. Does making hard decisions make you grow up? She'd felt older with that heartache, but in ways, it probably had. )

I'm not so sure as many would agree with that back home, but my father certainly thought I was old enough to marry, so I suppose there's something to it.

( She sounds like she's joking, and she does wink when she says so, but that's - also not funny hahahaha. Oh well. )

How about yourself, since we're on the subject?

[ladiesss]

Ew, marrying. [which she says offhandedly, without really thinking about it... it's easy to tell she doesn't really approve, even if it was a joke.] I'm seventeen. Except, well, I was in one place where time didn't move for a long time, so I might actually technically be a little older...?

[rebella]

Time didn't move? I don't understand what you mean. Were you frozen?

( Was the whole place frozen??? No comment on Ew on marrying. Ella can't say that if she didn't have a certain kind of freedom, she wouldn't have said yes to Char... because she would have. She wanted to, with all her heart, but she couldn't. Jeopardizing the kingdom like that, and Char, and the rest, it wasn't okay. )

[ladiesss]

Oh, not quite. Like, it was a pocket dimension... So it was kind of...

[she attempts to gesture with her hands, showing one section of... something... separated from another section of... something...]

Like it's own thing? Time moved way faster there than it does everywhere else, I think, so... I kind of just chalk it up to magical nonsense.

[rebella]

I can't imagine what the cost of something like that would be elsewhere...

( Unless all magic is just now magically okay being done whenever, but that makes no comparative sense to what Mandy told her back home. Everything had a cost and consequence. Things like that had to be large magic... what else happened because of something like that? )

[ladiesss]

Right? [she is so on board with this train of thought.] Freaks me out a little bit, actually.

[rebella]

It's irresponsible, which is scary enough. Anyone with that much power who doesn't care about the consequences of using that power as they like doesn't lead to happy endings.

( or middles, or much of anything. )

[ladiesss]

[she nods...]

Also, very cool that we're all good with magic, here. That's one weird conversational hurdle I don't have to make, now.

[rebella]

I... have seen enough of it in my life that it'd be silly to think there's not more about magic that I don't know than what little I do. It's not common knowledge where you're from?

[ladiesss]

Nooooo, it's definitely not. A lot of people really don't even like the idea.

[which she says with a frown, absently running her fingers through her hair again.]

[rebella]

It's not as if magic has one single form it takes... there's artwork that is in itself magical, but it's still artistry. There's big and little works of magic, things that heal, things that instruct...

( things that destroy, like what Henry apparently does... )