TMI

[alittleblackmagic]

[video]
[of the inside of Palom's mouth]

Look!  All that gross mucus-y stuff is gone!  I'm finally better now!  [Not that anyone could really tell he was sick; his volume only decreased like a half notch even with a sore throat]  Wanna see up my nose?  I've always wanted to know what it looked like but it's kinda hard to tell with just a mirror and a light.  Oh maybe you guys can play me back the video of my nose later so I can see inside myself that'd be really cool OK wait hold on I hafta take a deep breath so I don't accidentally sneeze in the middle or something I'm still a little bit

AHCHOO!

[sniff]

..........Well now there's snot everywhere.  Gross.

Anyway!  I remembered a lot of cool stuff!  I'm from Mysidia!  It's a city of mages!  And I'm the youngest one, but I know like, almost all of the black magic spells already cause I'm a prodigy!  Toldja I was!  Everyone was jealous of me and Porom 'cause the Elder took care of us and taught us himself and we knew the most, but also 'cause I was way better at casting magic than they were.

Oh!  And I remembered something else!  We were all mages because we were protecting this thing called the Crystal of Water.  I don't know what it does but I bet it was really important.

Comments

[alittleblackmagic]

C'mon! Why not?

[Fwoomph. A little boy is now on all fours alarmingly close to Hiroshi's personal parts.]

You're just scared to try new things. Scaredy-cat.

[all_onis_are_true]

Why are you so fascinated with pigs anyway?

[alittleblackmagic]

I'm not.

...I'm fascinated with turning people into pigs and seeing how long it takes before they realize I've run away.

[all_onis_are_true]

Boy, you really know how to sell this, don't you?

[alittleblackmagic]

See, now that I told you, you'll think I wouldn't possibly do it. ...And you'll be more prepared when it happens.

[all_onis_are_true]

You're seriously tempting me to start sewing mirrors into my clothing, you know that?

[alittleblackmagic]

How would mirrors help? It's not like they'd reflect my spells back at me or somethin'.

[all_onis_are_true]

Really? Damnit.

[alittleblackmagic]

..............

What kinda dumb magic do you think I use? You can't just bounce magic around like it's something you point and shoot; it's about completely changing reality so that you're in complete and total control! That's just insulting.

You have to cast Reflect, stupid.

[all_onis_are_true]

Forgive me if I am not fantastically well-versed in strange, unscientific forms of force that aren't even from my own world. I know I should automatically know everything ever, but I am only human.

[alittleblackmagic]

It's alright! Just as long as you remember for next time. And if you want to cast Reflect, you're gonna hafta learn white magic.

You can be like Porom's placeholder.

[all_onis_are_true]

*It was then that he remembers that kids under the age of ten aren't so good at sarcasm.*

I'm not learning magic. I have no interest in it.

[alittleblackmagic]

If you're going to live in Porom's room and use her stuff, you have to pay her respect. Yep.