paixaorpg | So You Want to Meet A Wizard? [Complete]

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So You Want to Meet A Wizard? [Complete]

Characters: Kit, whomever else wanders in.
Time: Around midday.
Setting: Vanaheim Gate.
Summary: Kit's just gotten through the gate, and is wandering about.
Warnings: None from Kit.

Kit looked around the place. The gate had been pretty impressive, and somehow it felt almost like wizardry. This place couldn't work on mere physics alone. The structures were impressive, but... He pushed through the crowd, and listened, with a wizard's ear. There was magic, but somehow... not the same. This confused him, but told him that he should probably keep a low profile for now. Nothing here felt like it was back home. And... he tried murmuring a few words to his electronic journal that he had gotten, but it didn't respond. Which was even more disturbing, since everything was supposed to know the Speech.

He hoped that maybe someone would come along and point him towards where he could go.

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Subaru had taken to spending quite a bit of time fluttering about the gates, and Vanaheim was one that seemed to keep his attention the longest. He kept thinking that maybe Kamui and he had been seperated during the switch between dimensions and that maybe Kamui would enter after him. There seemed to be no such luck, thus far, which was irritated and concerning the vampire.

He'd conceded and fed on one of the native folk the night before. He felt less prone to vertigo and exhaustion, but it hadn't been enough, and he wanted more. It was getting exceedingly difficult watching these humanoids (in most cases, at least) walk past him without so much as glancing in his direction, especially when he was almost certain he could smell the blood in their veins.

As he watched them pass, one by one, more and more, always more, he grew distracted and finally realized he'd been daydreaming again. He looked stricken, hoping no one had noticed though why they would care... it was the propriety of things, he decided. And he had just gathered his wits enough to walk away when he spotted one of the humanoids looking very confused indeed. Usually Subaru (and his brother) stayed away from helping others. After Seishirou-san... he shook his head. It was still in his nature to help others, even now.

So he approached and offered a polite smile. "I hope I'm not out of line... but could you use some help?"

At least there seemed to be a common language here, which was either English or close enough to it that the Speech translated for him. "Ah... yeah. I just got here, and I'm kind of confused." This guy looked pretty dressed up, so maybe he was important... or maybe he was just trying to give the illusion as such. "I'm Kit, by the way. I'm glad that someone at least saw that I was confused." He smiled.

This place... it seemed to be entirely made up of domes. Big, spacey bubbles that both resembled human architecture... and something else entirely. "Where are we, anyway? I know that the people at the gate said something about 'Paixao'... but I'm not sure where that is or what that means."

Subaru suddenly wished he knew quite a bit more about this place, or that he'd made an effort to learn at least. He hated being unable to answer questions, and usually he was so shy that his last few words would have seemed out of character for him. Kamui so often did most of the talking for them, but for the first time in his memory he was without his other half, without his twin. It was a terrifying feeling, but Subaru knew he couldn't let it paralyze him. He had to keep moving, to find his twin so they could move on. Staying in one place too long was dangerous.

"Well... this place is called Paixao, and I sadly do not know that much about it. Your plight is not original. So many of us are travelers from other worlds who have ended up here in one way or another." Subaru had gathered enough that his choice to change worlds was in fact one of the strangest cases. Most simply... appeared here.

"My name is Subaru." he introduced. "And if you would like, I can help you learn your way around. That's something I've managed to do since I arrived, is learn my way to various places." he said with a reassuring smile on his face.

"It's good to meet you, Subaru." Something was nagging at him, and he pulled his Manual out of his pocket. He flipped to a page, and frowned. "That's odd... 'Out of ambit'. So I really am in a different universe." He closed the book and tucked it back into his pocket. "And it doesn't give me any information about this place. Strange." Since he had sensed magic around here, he figured that it was safe to at least check his Manual. "There's people who can cast spells around here, aren't there? So it's not sevarfrith."

Subaru blinked despite himself. "Serva... what?" he managed. The term seemed so unusual, but the vampire supposed he shouldn't be surprised. After all, they were all from different worlds. Strange terms always cropped up when they simply didn't translate from language to language. Subaru thanked the dimensional witch once more for her concession that the twins be able to understand any language spoke on any world they came across.

"I suppose there are magicians here." Subaru wasn't sure, he hadn't come into contact with them yet, if there were. But he knew magic existed on most worlds, so surely here as well. "And I would guess this is a very different place from where you are from." Subaru had a passing thought for the home he'd left so very long ago, but didn't dwell. He could never return, not while the vampire hunter lived.

"Where are you from, by the way?" he asked simply. He was curious if this young man had ever been off of his home world before coming to Paixao, but it was an awkward question to pop out of the blue. Too many worlds have never heard of other ones that this was no doubt a shock to him.

Kit looked confused, and then laughed. "Ah, sorry. It means 'a place where wizardry is hidden'. In other words, where wizards have to be undercover and can't do spells out in the open." He shrugged. "Where I come from, that's how it is. But I've been places that it's not so."

He thought for a second. "Well, lots of people on my planet call it 'Earth', though its actual designation is Sol III. It's in the Milky Way galaxy... specifically, the Orion Arm. It's a barred spiral galaxy, you see..."

Kit grinned. "This place isn't so different, nah. All the glass reminds me of The Crossings, though somehow I think I was pulled here without a worldgate. Which I didn't think was possible. But I suppose the Powers want me here, or else I wouldn't be here."

Subaru was immediately intrigued. There was quite a bit he hadn't understood about all of that, but he was mind-hungry and wanted to learn now. A rare true smile crossed his face and his eyes danced with it. He looked much younger with that expression, too, despite the fact that he looked no older than 17 normally.

"I don't think I really understood much of what you just said." he said swiftly. "But I think I would love to learn! So are you a magician, then?" He inquired. He hadn't said as much, but it had been implied. Subaru himself could work some measure of magic, though he was no magician. No, he was a rare pureblood vampire, a fact he was unwilling to share with many, and especially someone who could be a friend of sorts.

Kamui would have snarled and said they shouldn't trust him. Subaru wanted to, despite that. But Subaru looked around and realized they were still standing in the middle of the street. "Maybe we should go somewhere and sit down," he suggested politely. "You are probably tired." He said decidedly. Traveling between worlds always left Subaru feeling just a bit dizzy and disoriented, like he hadn't fed in a week or more.

"Oh, sorry... I sometimes forget that I shouldn't speak so technically. I'm used to my partner being with me, and just jabbering on. I'm a wizard, yeah. It's kind of different than what most people think of 'magic'... it's got a lot of calculations and stuff going into it. I mean, if you want to go to the moon, you've gotta calculate how much air and stuff you'll need... and make sure that papers don't end up sticking to you." Kit chuckled lightly, remembering when Nita showed up with her father's paperwork all over.

"Yeah, I am kind of tired. It would be nice to sit down, after standing in line at the gates and stuff. They weren't that helpful... though they were nice enough. Nicer than the Stationmaster, anyway."

There sounded like there might be several potential interesting stories in those few statements, but Subaru was not the type to pry even if he would have loved to have heard them. So he instead wracked his brain for a place to go to sit down. This city was absolutely massive and the closest things to the gate were the hotels. Well his young friend would need a place to stay, and Subaru himself had rooms arranged there, as his attention had so much been on this gate of late.

"It's a bit of a walk to the hotels from here. We could just find a bench and relax for a bit before I show you there. You'll need a room to stay in, of course." Subaru stated as if this were plainly obvious.

"Your version of magic sounds fascinating. I've met mages who sing, who write their magic out, who just wave their hands and it happens, but I don't believe I've ever met anyone who puts so much thought into it." For no reason he could fathom, he thought of the mage who's life had been saved by vampire blood and the blood of the ninja who had been desperate to save him. That mage was particularly powerful, of all the magic users Subaru had ever met. He wondered how his new friend would compare.

"I don't think you said... what is your name?"

"That would be good. And a place to stay in... I don't really have that much money on me, and I don't know that it'd be good here, anyway." Kit dug into his pocket. "Yeah, I've got about ten dollars, a subway pass, and some loose change. I don't know how I'll afford a room. But I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it."

"Ah, yeah... I think I said, but it's easy enough to forget. I'm Kit. Christopher, really, but I hate my name. And there are lots of ways to do magic... the whales sing it, and sometimes you can do spells in your head... the diagram's gotta be somewhere, but it can be in your mind if you want."

Subaru was far more fascinated than his exhausted new friend deserved, so he set his questions aside for now and offered the most reassuring smile he could muster and picked out a bench amidst the crowd. "You don't want to walk to the hotel yet, I can assure you. It is a bit of a walk." he said plaintively. This city was massive, and he had not been all over it at all yet.

Subaru looked about himself and tried to consider all he'd learned so far about this young man, but he still drew a blank. He had never heard of anyone like this before in any of the worlds he had visited. The term wizard was rare enough, and he still thought of old bearded men when he heard THAT term.

Kit sat down, glad for the rest. "Thanks." He looked at Subaru, and thought for a minute. "Why don't you tell me about yourself? I would at least like to know a little bit about my rescuer. It would be nice."

He wasn't quite sure what Subaru was. He wasn't sure if he was the same type of human he was, but from different worlds, who knew? It was at least worth listening to another talk. He was in more of a listening mood right now, anyway.

Subaru considered the question at first and instinctively withdrew into himself at the comment. He wasn't usually the first to admit he was a vampire, especially since so many condemned him for it. But part of him, the hungry and angry and frightened part, looked down at his hands, clasped in his lap.

"I am from a world I can never return to... my twin brother and I left a very long time ago..." he trailed off, thinking of Seishirou-san, and why they'd left. "We've been running from world to world ever since... but when I came here, Kamui and I were seperated..." he trailed off. He missed his brother. "But as soon as I find him, we will probably move on. We never stay in one place very long." he said and tried to sound positive.

Kit nodded, wanting to say something comforting. 'I will guard growth and ease pain.' Right. The Oath.

"Things happen. You may find him... and if you do, things might get better." 'A wizard does not lie.' "I hope that you will find him, and that things do get better. And I hope that you're able to find somewhere that you can settle down, maybe, or at least stay for a while. You don't have to tell me why you left. But if there's anything I can do, please let me know."

Kit got up. "Well. I think I'll find the hotels on my own. This map should be able to help me. Thank you for your explanations, though, Subaru. Dai stiho... go well." He walked off.

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