Prophecy in Theory and Practice, Class Five, Tuesday (10/02)

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It wouldn't have been Aziraphale's class if there were no breakfast pastries and pots of tea and coffee on the table in the center of the room. Since it was Aziraphale's class, those items were conveniently available for the students to enjoy.

The teacher himself had just finished setting up a display of scrying implements, and turned to the class once everyone was seated.

"As you can see, today's exercise will be in chrystallomancy, or crystal gazing. Before we begin the exercise, however, I want to give you a brief lecture on dream interpretation. You may think it odd that the lecture would focus on dreams while the exercise covers scrying, but really the two are very similar. The same sorts of symbolism you're going to encounter in your dreams is also very often present in chrystallomancy as well."

Aziraphale proceeded to give his lecture on dream interpretation, and gave each student several different handouts and a blank journal.

"Your homework for is to keep a dream journal for the next week. One of your handouts has some good pointers on methods for keeping them. When you come to the next class, I'd like you to bring a written interpretation of one of the dreams from your journal. Now, we'll move on to today's class exercise."

He gave a short talk on the basics of chrystallomancy, and then said, "Now, pair up and choose a crystal or scrying mirror to work with, and do a reading for your partner. Also, please don't forget to turn in your homework assignment from last week."

[ooc: Please wait for the OCD is up and class is in session!]

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Class Exercise: Chrystallomancy

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[Feel free to make what you see as vague or realistic as you think would suit your character's abilities. If you stare long enough, anyone is probably going to see something. Interpret it as you like, the dream interpretation links are good sources for ideas.]

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Lana just sat at her desk staring into space, not really caring if anyone came over to be her partner or not.

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"Hey," Chris said, sitting next to Lana. "You okay?"

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"Jim's gone," Lana said dully. "For good. His dad pulled him out permanently and doesn't want him to have any more contact with me either."

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"Ouch. I'm sorry," Chris said, reaching over to rest a hand on her shoulder. "Is there anything I can do?"

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Lana shrugged. "I don't know. Don't really care about much of anything at the moment. I really thought he was someone in my life who was going to stay. Guess I was right about everyone leaving."

"Sorry," she said after a moment, looking a little embarrassed. "You're trying to be really nice and I'm just ... being miserable."

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"I don't blame you," Chris said. "I just wish there was something I could do to make you feel better."

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"Me too," Lana said. "Believe me if there was something I'd tell you."

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"Well, I can listen. Or hang out. Or whatever," Chris offered.

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Wyatt fiddled with his crystal ball, wondering what he might see.

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Savannah slid across from Wyatt.

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"Hey, kiddo," Wyatt said, smiling at her.

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"Hey," she said with a grin. "How're things?"

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"Well, this weekend was pretty weird, but other than that, I'm okay," Wyatt said. "How about you? Recovering okay?"

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Savannah nodded. "It was kind of scary not knowing who I was. But I was with Chris and Summer and Johhny, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been."

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"Two out of three isn't bad," Wyatt muttered.

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Annette stared long and hard into her crystal ball and after five minutes, she grinned slowly. She was possibly seeing last night in her crystal ball. She was probably seeing the hickie on her neck too. Wait. Two hickies omigod.

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Andrew sat down at a crystal ball, tapped it a few times, and pressed his ear against it.

It's totally possible he needs to review his notes.

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Neil chuckled as he came over towards Andrew.

"I don't think it works that way," he suggested. Not that he was an expert or anything.

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Andrew repeated his action, tapping the crystal ball and pressing his ear against it.

"I read this paper online about mystical resonance and its applications in prophecy," Andrew explained. "But I'm starting to think the premise is a bit off." He took his ear off the ball and frowned.

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"You have the greater experience," Neil agreed, especially since he had never really been 'on-line' except the few times Andrew had shown him how to surf the web.

"I grew up with the more classic 'gaze into my crystal ball' method."

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Andrew laughed and looked up at Neil. There was a familiar flutter in his chest at the site of him.

"Well the old ways are usually the best ways for this kind of thing."

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Neil smiled and settled down next to Andrew, looking towards the crystal ball in his hands.

"So, would you like to try the old fashion way?" He asked, aware of the double meaning in words. Since they were taking things in the old fashion way, nice and slow and careful.

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"You bet," Andrew said, gazing intently into the ball.

"Hmm, what's this I see? It looks like a school function. A dance, mayhap." He leaned in closer. "Yes, I see it now. It's Homecoming. I see myself, and I'm dancing, but who is that handsome devil I'm dancing with?"

Andrew cut a glance over towards Neil, a sly grin on his face.

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Andros sat down and began trying to see into his crystal ball.