Octavian
Octavian woke up, and curled in on herself. Had she eaten something that was off? Dear Lord, but her stomach hurt. And then a horrible suspicion hit her. She got up quietly and went to the bathroom, checked and started banging her head against the wall softly. She had a freaking period.
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Dressed and thanking god she had a sister so she knew something about this whole thing, Octavian downed a couple of painkillers to numb the aching and set out to face the day. How did girls do this? Really? Dear god, she would kill someone for chocolate. At breakfast, she gave Dawn a particularily venomous stare. This was all her sodding fault.
Dawn
"Something wrong, Tav?" Dawn asked, pretty sure of what it was.
Octavian
"I'm going to learn magic and turn you into a rat. Then I'm going to buy a snake. I'm going to tape you being eaten and slowly digested by the snake. I'll play it back and laugh myself stupid often." Octavian turned from her and got a cup of hot, soothing tea.
Dawn
"I have no sypathy, Tav. Remember, my blood is chaos. I have to put up magickal wards on all of my 'supplies,' or else the world could end! If I didn't, we'd have dragons and demons running all over the place. Very not good. Besides, you're only going to have to go through it this once, we have to do it every month from age 13 to age 50. Have a bit more respect for women now?" Dawn asked.
"I could always cast a spell to make you pregnant," she said, winking. "Whaddya say Dem, should I?"
Octavian and Demetria
"You do, and I will kill you," Octavian informed her icily. "I will probably die shortly after that myself, but it will be worth it."
"Dawn, leave off her. It's the first time she's had to do something like this, and she's not used to the hormones either." Demetria smiled slyly. "Serves you right though."
"Go away, Dem. Very much not in the mood." Octavian got her tea and moved away across the caf.
Dawn
"SO, Dem, think he'll be nicer when we turn him back?" Dawn asked the girl.
Demetria
"He'll be a lot warier, but I don't know if he'll actually be better." Demetria looked after her twin thoughtfully. "He's so proud, you see. He won't let us have one up on him. And he can nurse a grudge like nothing on earth."
Dawn
"I really wasn't planning on leaving him a girl for so long, but, being comatose and all. And now I'm just waiting until I've built my strength back up. It'll be soon, but don't let him know," she grinned.
Demetria
"I won't," Demetria promised and looked after her sullen twin sadly. This had almost gone too far. "So, what classes do you have today?" She smiled brightly.
Dawn
"I'm still on leave. They don't want me under pressue, because I'm still weak from the poison. I might go to chemistry and physics, though. It's fun to play around in the science lab. Physics and magick have a lot in common, you know."
Demetria
"Sounds good. Hey, maybe we could just sit around and talk today, when you're not busy? Kind of in the same situation myself." Demetria's hand rubbed her ankle almost self consiouscely. "I want to fond Glory and make one of her own damn snakes bite her."
Dawn
Dawn shuddered, as she remembered waking up in that room surrounded by snakes.
"She bled me. She used my blood to feed the cobras, to make them more powerful, and invulnerable. Glory always sends cobras after me. But you should have seen the first one. It was, like, 30 feet long, and really big with arms, and it grabbed me. Not good," Dawn declared.
Demetria
"Oh, you poor dear," Demetria cooed. "What eats snakes? Could we like magic up a mega version of something like that and set it loose on Glory?"
Dawn
"Oh, we need to get a mongoose. A lot of mongooses. Mongeese?" she asked, befuddled. "Mongoose eats snakes." she giggled.
Demetria
"Sounds perfect, darrrrling." Demetria giggled with Dawn. "Maybe we could turn a mongoose into the uber mongoose!"