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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part III

Yes, there were more tables and chairs here. No, they were not allowed to be used for making a bonfire. Eat something hot if you're still weirdly cold.

[OCD is up! This is the SECOND post for general mingling. Use this post if your browser can't handle the comment load of the first mingling post. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here.]

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"Do you wear that hat often?" Alice asked.

She never had learned how to properly start a conversation.

So, apparently, the world she'd taken herself to wasn't one where witches were common, seeing as how no one reacted to the hat in a normal sort of way.

"Uh... Yeah. Yes, I do," Agnes confirmed. "At least, recently I do."

"It's certainly dramatic," Alice nodded. "Is that why you wear it? I knew a man who had a large hat with alchemical symbols on it. I always thought I'd like to borrow his."

Well, that was insightful. "...Actually, yes," Agnes answered. It's a witch's hat -- it's supposed to command attention and respect." And make me look taller. Personally, Agnes didn't think the hat did much more than make her look silly, but there was the principle of the thing.

"Oh, I do beg your pardon," Alice said, dropping Agnes a very proper sort of curtsy. "I had no idea. What sort of respect is granted a witch, then?"

She was always eager to learn these things.

A heck of a lot more than I normally get, Agnes thought. "Oh, you know. Just... Respect, in general. We're full of wisdom, and magic spells, and..." She thought for a moment, grasping for something else to add. "...And suchlike." In full candor, she added, "At least, we are once we've learned all that."

"I haven't any magic abilities," she said. "Are they very difficult to learn? Or is this an innate sort of power? I hope you don't mind the questions, I've never met a witch before."

Considering Fandom, she likely had, she just didn't realize it.

"It's... sort of a bit of both?" Agnes replied. "You have to have the innate power to begin with, but it won't come to anything unless you also learn how to use it."

She squinted at Alice, trying to... see her aura, or feel her vibrations, or whatever it was that Granny and Nanny had done to single her out from the crowd.

Alice had no real magical ability, except that she had somehow stumbled into a world of her own creation, and ruled it while sane, mad, and sane again. That might make for a strange sort of reading.

"Is that why you're here?" she asked curiously.

Agnes winced and rubbed her forehead, trying to STOP sensing Alice before the headache got too bad.

"Well, sort of," she replied. "The people who DO know how to use it like to think they're smarter and better than you, and they aren't very good teachers, so I thought I'd try to learn on my own for a bit."

"Ah, I see," Alice nodded. "Overbearing governesses are worse than none at all. They make you resent learning anything. I would try to forget, just to vex her."

"Well, I wouldn't go THAT far," Agnes insisted. "I do want to learn, after all. Just... Not their way."

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