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[oi_theoi]

Who: Anyone!
When: Day 41, Noon
Where: Common Room
What: Mingle!

[In the common room, there are large stacks of colored paper on a simple wood table, a bowl filled with all different types of writing tools, and a small sign.]

What do you desire?

[Feel free to draw or write or mingle. Kain may be around.]

Comments

[shednotearsformagic]

Of course it's a mockery. Claiming to do magic when it's only trickery is mockery.

[jackoclubs]

[. . . ha ha]

We've had this conversation before, Akako-san.

[shednotearsformagic]

...yes, we have.

[Oh hey, draping over your shoulder and holding out a hand in front of him.] It's why I like you as a magician. [And there's a moment where she's silent before a white lilac appears in her hand in a faint red glow.]

You have the decency to call it for what it is. A deception people want. You have a personality that I can at least accept.

[jackoclubs]

[instinctively stiffening at the touch, shying away a bit and blinking at the lilac in her hand]

. . .

[exhaaaale]

Magic is still magic, be it through deception or spellcasting. That is something that won't change.

[shednotearsformagic]

Your magic and my magic is still different. At least, what you'll call 'your magic.' You might just have a special magic all your own that doesn't have to do with your tricks.

[Placing the flower in his hand.] But in the end, you're still the only magician I like.

[jackoclubs]

. . .

[takes it. . .]

[jackoclubs]

[. . . and waves his hand over it, closing it into his fist and making it disappear]

Not now, Akako-san.

[shednotearsformagic]

Not now?

[jackoclubs]

Not now.

[shednotearsformagic]

Ah, so cold.

[Pulls back a bit.] But really, it's only natural to return a gift, isn't it? A gift on Valentines and I never returned it on White Day.

[jackoclubs]

Is that how you see it?

[shednotearsformagic]

[Shrugs.] Why not?

[jackoclubs]

I never accepted your Valentine's Day chocolate for a reason, Akako-san.

[shednotearsformagic]

You didn't, but I did accept your flower, even if I just burned it in the end.

Besides, smart boy like you, you should know the meaning of a white lilac, right?

[jackoclubs]

. . . I'm aware.

[shednotearsformagic]

Honestly, that's less suspect then a white carnation.

[jackoclubs]

Did I say it was suspect?

[shednotearsformagic]

You hardly need to say.

[jackoclubs]

You're making assumptions.

[shednotearsformagic]

As are you.

I wanted to return the gift. It's on a whim. I just remember what white lilacs meant when my curiosity got the best of me and I looked up what that flower was saying.

Knowing you, I wouldn't have been surprised if you meant it.