Selina Skies
May 20, 2022 6:45 PM
Fast & Furious by Selina Skies
Welcome to Fast & Furious!This is a rapid fire posting event where word count rules are waived! Only got one sentence? Post it. Only got your character going 'Huh?' Post it.
You can continue existing threads or write in response to any existing school event, such as the zoo trip, Quidditch event, or classes. You can also just start brand new interactions, especially if you don't feel up to speed or confident with those events. You can literally just write your character walking down a corridor or sitting down for dinner, and wait for someone to come along and help you make it into something.
HOWEVER, please post under this thread - this keeps all the event posts in one place, and means there aren't a bunch of posts that don't follow site rules scattered about, which can be confusing for new authors if they find them 'in the wild.'
The event will run for approximately 48 hours, going Friday night - Sunday night in the USA. The usual cut off is 'when people get bored and go to bed on Sunday' rather than a strict 48 hours.
So, have fun, have at it! Any questions, ask in chatzy.
Subthreads: To the penguins! [tag Piper] by Leviosa Scurlock
[zoo] hi, cuz (Mab first then anyone younger than Mab) by Lenny Pierce with Mab
Better go for high intensity then [Henry] by Xavier Lundstrom with Henry Spellman
Good [Henry] by Oz Spellman with Henry Spellman
Dancing teacups by Yaniel Ayala Velez with Claire Osbrook
You don't sound convinced [Yarielis continued from Zoo] by Iris Cobb with Yaniel Ayala Velez
I think I don't remember how to read now. by Graham Osbrook
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Selina Skies
Fast & Furious
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Iris Cobb
May 21, 2022 8:04 AM
You don't sound convinced [Yarielis continued from Zoo] by Iris Cobb
Iris wasn't quite sure what to make of Yarielis so far. She seemed pleasant enough, but hesitant for some reason or another? Well, that might actually make sense if she played Quiddtich with Billy. Who knows what sort of stories he told Yarielis about her. Having an older, stupid brother was annoying.She put on a pleasant smile, "Okay, do you have an preference on what you want to go see? I don't really so long as we make get everything done that Professor Skies wants us to." She indicated the papers they had received before being set free. "Oh also," Iris added with a slight roll of her eyes, "I dunno what yarns Billy might be spinning about me, but best not take them to seriously."
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Iris Cobb
You don't sound convinced [Yarielis continued from Zoo]
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Yaniel Ayala Velez
May 21, 2022 8:35 AM
Oh, sorry about that by Yaniel Ayala Velez
"Whatever you want," Yarielis said, regarding what they should see. They'd see everything anyway."Uh, sure. I won't," the first year said, unsure what Iris meant by that, but it seemed to bother her.
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Yaniel Ayala Velez
Oh, sorry about that
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Iris Cobb
May 21, 2022 9:14 AM
I'm not sure I'm looking for an apology by Iris Cobb
Iris was getting the feeling that Yarelis didn't like her much. She wasn't sure why, had she done something wrong? Well, she couldn't think of what, she'd been nothing but nice."Alright," Iris did her best to respond to her partner's rather unhelpful response. She'd already said she didn't care. "It looks like that group is heading for the bird's. Let's join them."
Then in a desperate attempt to continue the conversation, "What do you think of the school by now?"
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Iris Cobb
I'm not sure I'm looking for an apology
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Yaniel Ayala Velez
May 21, 2022 9:27 AM
Oh. Sor- um. by Yaniel Ayala Velez
"Sounds good," Yarielis said, when Iris suggested going to see the birds, offering a smile."School's good!" Yarielis said, showing a bit more enthusiasm. Not enough to not be cool, but it was probably the expected response amongst Crotali to be respectful about school. "What do you think of it?"
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Yaniel Ayala Velez
Oh. Sor- um.
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Iris Cobb
May 21, 2022 4:54 PM
Right by Iris Cobb
"Oh yes," Iris responded to the younger Crotalus. For some reason she still found it wierd that she wasn't the youngest, or even in the beginner class anymore. "School is fine and good." She sighed, "Do you miss the time you lose away from home?" That was a wierd question to ask randomly, where had that come from?
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Iris Cobb
Right
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Yaniel Ayala Velez
May 21, 2022 6:43 PM
Right. by Yaniel Ayala Velez
Do you miss home? It was a hard question to answer. Yarielis always wanted to give the right answer, the expected answer but what was that? Saying 'no' made you look callous. Did saying 'yes' make you look like a baby? In situations like this, the Crotalus tended to edge towards the truth, because it was easier to keep track of than a lie. But what was the truth? Yes, it was hard being around unfamiliar people all day, it was hard not having games of baseball with papa, and then sitting down on the grass to eat quesitos.But the juggling act of keeping both parents happy... That was easier to maintain by letter. There were certain pressures that were off.
Not that Yarielis felt settled and comfortable at school instead. Home was easier, in that the stresses of how to blend in were well practised, even if life did just feel like a constant itch breaking out beneath the skin. Yarielis wasn't happier at school, but it wasn't from missing home... It was because it was still so hard to get along with people. The Crotalus just wanted to glide through, but it was like there was friction and static, catching and rubbing like sandpaper in every interaction.
"Yeah. Sometimes," Yarielis admitted. Hopefully they would get to the actual birds soon, and then could fill the time with the worksheets and saying stuff like 'ooh, look at that!' Like, how in class, you could fill the void with commenting on work. Trying to strike up conversation from total cold with a total stranger was painful. Iris probably thought so too. She probably regretted asking Yarielis to pair up. "You?"
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Yaniel Ayala Velez
Right.
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Iris Cobb
May 21, 2022 6:58 PM
So...? by Iris Cobb
"Yeah." Iris replied as she watched the bits of the zoo go past that weren't birds as they walked. "I like school well enough, and I hadn't really thought about it while I'm here." She sighed, "But when I get home again... It's almost like... I'm not sure. My cousins have been together all the time I've been away, and I'm just not a part of that anymore when I get home." Iris had no idea why she was unloading on this poor first year that didn't even like her.She wanted to talk about it to somebody, but there just wasn't anyone. Amethyst wouldn't understand, she wasn't sure about Ray either. The only one she could imagine even coming close was her stupid brother and that just wasn't going to happen. "Do you have a lot of family back home?"
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Iris Cobb
So...?
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Yaniel Ayala Velez
May 21, 2022 7:07 PM
So...? by Yaniel Ayala Velez
"Oh. That sucks. I'm sorry," Yarielis offered a sympathetic smile, a little blind sided by Iris' very genuine confession. But then, some people were like that. They just spilt out thoughts and feelings like that didn't make you vulnerable."Um. Sort of... I have cousins, but none of them live where we do," Yarielis explained. The default answer to 'is your family big?' was 'no' but Iris had specifically expanded to include cousins. "At home, it's just me and my parents. But there's a lot of kids and families in the community that we know. Except I can't really talk to them about where I've been or what I've been doing." That was why Yarielis had kept up boundaries with all of them growing up. Had never let anyone in, or got too attached. Now it was supposed to be different. School was full of the people who would understand, and who the first year could form life long friendships with. Except some habits were hard to break.
Or maybe it had never been other people who were the problem.
"Oh, cool-parrots!" Yarielis gestured, as they entered the bird area. The parrots weren't super exciting but at least it was a convenient deflection.
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Yaniel Ayala Velez
So...?
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Iris Cobb
May 21, 2022 7:25 PM
I'm not sure, where were we when this started? by Iris Cobb
Iris wondered if maybe she'd been a little wrong about Yarielis. Maybe she didn't entirely dislike her for some unknown reason? She smiled back, "Thanks, and yeah I can't talk to any of my cousins about all this either. They're all Muggles and that just makes it worse. The only people I can talk about school stuff is Ma, Pa and Billy." She rolled her eyes at the mention of her brother again. "And naturally only when no one else is around.""Ooh! Parrots!" Iris had only seen pictures of them in books before. They were super exciting. "They're beautiful! Are they normal parrots or some sort of magical type?"
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Iris Cobb
I'm not sure, where were we when this started?
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Yaniel Ayala Velez
May 21, 2022 7:33 PM
Going to the birds by Yaniel Ayala Velez
Yarielis nodded in sympathetic understanding. So Iris' family, or at least part of them, was non-magical. The cousins on papa's side were like that. The two of them had something in common. Probably something that a lot of people had and it didn't mean Iris would care or anything. The idea of further explaining about family caught in Yarielis' throat just a moment too long, and the moment passed, and there were birds to talk about now, and that was easier.Yarielis skimmed the sign to answer Iris' question.
"Kind of... both?" The first year tapped the relevant part of the sign. 'Whilst the parrots themselves possess no magical ability, they come from a semi-wild group which lives near magical settlements. The parrots have become habituated to magical people, and thus have picked up a range of vocabulary that it would be inappropriate for them to say around non-magical people.'
As if to emphasise the point, one of the parrots fixed its eyes on them, sidling along the branch and clicking its beak in anticipation of treats, before letting out a loud 'wingaaaardium leviosa' and ruffling its feathers.
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Yaniel Ayala Velez
Going to the birds
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