On your broomsticks! [OPEN]

[theboywhodied]

Following the instructions given to him by crew members here and there, Cedric stepped through a green archway tucked on a corner of the fifth floor and entered a grey void. He closed his eyes, concentrating on the sort of place that would be perfect for a day of flying. He imagined a bright grassy plain, a large lake, and a forest off to the side. Vague memories turned into vivid images surrounding him, so thoroughly convincing that he really believed he'd been taken from the ship and placed on a field back on Earth. It was quite a convincing illusion
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All it needed now was the key piece: a group of brooms. He thought for a moment on which brooms to provide them with. Firebolts were the world standard, but he'd never known one well enough to be able to picture it accurately. The school brooms, Shooting Stars, were nice and safe for new riders but not quite reliable. In the end, he knew his own broom best: a sleek Nimbus 2001, gifted by his father. As long as he instructed the fliers to go slowly, they should be safe on those brooms.

Visitors would find Cedric side-mounted on a broom in his black and yellow Quidditch robes, gliding just slightly over the grass. As soon as he spotted them, he'd greet them enthusiastically and move to touch down. "Hi!"

((ooc: wide open for everyone to join in! We'll be doing some group exercises too, so thread around! Fly as a group when you're ready!))

Comments

[theboywhodied]

An inventor, then! She was clever, no doubt. "You work in the Engineering department, then?" He'd heard of it! Not that he'd ever be able to be part of it.

He did have to warn her about mixing magic and Muggle devices, though. "I don't think you should. Magic's known to interfere with Muggle devices. Things like your radios and stopwatches don't work on Hogwarts grounds---the air's too concentrated with magic, and it stops them from functioning."

[thewunderkind]

"I work in a lot of departments," she replied, grinning. "But yeap! Engineering's one of them."

As he went on, however, Lash raised an eyebrow at his comments. "Muggles? Hogwarts Grounds? What are those?"

[theboywhodied]

"Muggles are people who can't use magic," Cedric started. "Your technology things are excellent, I'm sure, but they wouldn't work around too much magic. And Hogwarts is a wizarding school. I'd just about finished my sixth year of training before I found myself here."

It appeared just outside the window as he thought, the old castle majestic even in its emptiness.

[thewunderkind]

"Oh so you're a wizard!" That...would explain the brooms genius. "But tee hee hee, you've got another thing coming if you think I'm just a...muggle? Muggle's the right word right? Right! I'm Black Hole Wunderkind Genius extraordinaire! Maybe most people from your world live boring normal lives, but it's nothing like that in War's World!"

She looked over the castle.

"Ooooh. Snazzy. I never went to school."

[theboywhodied]

"The word doesn't mean you're ordinary." Cedric's interested in her other words, though.

"It's called War World and you never went to school. Does that mean you were training your entire life? You didn't have time for studies?"

[thewunderkind]

"I was part of Black Hole," she explained. "Let's just say that where I come from, they tried to take over the world. Worked with Sturm at first, he was a pretty cool guy." She made the 7 feet tall man appear before them. "Nice guy. Liked war, hated peace, you probably know the type. Mostly cause most people I talked too knew someone like him. Anyway, the other nations beat him up, we lost the war, Hawke killed him to take over, we left to come back a few years later. Then the Bolt Guard took over, Hawke and I changed sides, helped the Allied Nations win against him, etc etc etc. I was a soldier for all of my life," she added with a grin. "The brightest Black Hole had to offer! No one could build weapons like me, and no one ever did!"

She said it with such a straight face it was almost strange.

[theboywhodied]

That was...new. "I did know someone like him...but they're usually not described as nice. Or cool."

War? The wizarding world was terrified of war! It was so strange to meet someone who seemed to revel in it. He tried to retain his polite warmth, but he wondered if this woman had anything in common with him at all. Other than the flying thing.

"So I suppose you're well prepared for all of this. It's just another war, huh?"

[thewunderkind]

"Yeah the bad guys aren't really described as being cool or nice by the people they are fighting normally," she said agreeing. Lash was pretty cool about the whole used-to-be evil thing.

"Well not quite!" She said with her usual dramatic flare. "It's a question of me being prepared for all sorts of situations. But war tends to be rather...um...not as easy to predict when you're the one not causing it, you know?"

[theboywhodied]

Huh. Cedric shook his head. "Then you're applying your war strategies from your old days to preparing for this one. That's useful, isn't it?"

Sort of?

[thewunderkind]

"Oh! Oh yeah, that's true," she snickered. "I was pretty good at battle war strategies. Granted the last battles have had me improvising more than anything else but still useful!"

[theboywhodied]

"Last battle? When was that? What was it like?"

Cedric hasn't fought yet. The idea worries him.

[thewunderkind]

"Hard to tell. The ship has a way of making it hard to tell time, really. But it wasn't too long ago. I guess before you got taken from her pod," she continued, explaining. "It was...hard. There were attacks everywhere. But we fought back and for the most part we defeated a bunch of them. If anything it proves one thing...they can be beaten."

[theboywhodied]

"For the most part?"

Cedric was glad to hear that they were beatable, but it sounded like there was more to that story.

[thewunderkind]

"Well we didn't defeat all of them, obviously. And someone did die in the fight which...honestly is a lot less than I expected, truthfully. We're a pretty good fighting lot, all things considered."