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Post by Audiva on May 17, 2009 22:52:48 GMT -5
Jason couldn't help but chuckle a little at her enthusiasm. She was going to be an interesting pupil, that was for sure. He nodded to acknowledge what she said, and then thought for a moment. "Where would you like to have these lessons? It would be better for it to be at my apartment, but I don't think you'd be comfortable there, if only because it's a veritable mess. It needs to be somewhere where someone won't accidentally disturb us, in case I have you practicing some spell or I'm showing you how...that could get a little ugly..."
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Post by Aly on May 17, 2009 23:07:45 GMT -5
Poppy laughed. "Mess? Mess is nothing. You should see my room. It's not really a room – it's a nest." She grinned. "I think we should see if my parents will let me alone, first – I can say you're helping me dissect Jimmy Buffet songs for philosophy. As long as we don't explode anything too valuable, we should be fine. Or we could go out to the guest house without anyone knowing." she smiled. "My parents are pretty okay about freedom, now. A couple years ago, though, they wouldn't have been." It probably had something to do with the fact that she was now legally an adult.
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Post by Audiva on May 18, 2009 22:45:41 GMT -5
"I would correct you - you haven't seen my apartment. You'll get to see it eventually, I'm sure, but it isn't pretty. Far from it, really," Jason told Poppy with a grin. "Dissecting Jimmy Buffet for philosophy? Hah. I'd better actually get one of my CDs out, if that's the case, just so that we really can use it as a cover story. But I will warn you, if we have to discuss it in front of your parents or something, I only ever took high school level philosophy, and I wasn't that good at it...." he said. "And while I'm at it, I think now would be a good time to say that if we're going to work on the practical part of your training, we'll need to do it at my apartment - I've got it spelled so that the damage doesn't take if I blow something up," he continued, waving a hand absently.
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Post by Aly on May 18, 2009 23:45:38 GMT -5
Poppy laughed, "You'll see my room, I'm sure. You might get swallowed a little." A pause. "I have a large number of his CDs, and Bob Dylan, too. My philosophy professor likes him as well." She grinned. "I'll answer anything that needs to be answered to my parents." Another pause, this time with thought. "Yes, that makes more sense."
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Post by Audiva on May 19, 2009 16:40:14 GMT -5
"I don't listen to either of them all that often," Jason admitted. "I usually listen to things like RED, Skillet, and Fireflight - I like the electric guitar in those, really," he continued. "And I'm completely serious - my apartment is a total mess...I tripped when I walked out of my bedroom this morning, and I've got this huge bruise on my ribs where I landed on something that really hurt...and I don't even know what it was, now that I think about it..." he paused, a slight frown appearing on his face. "But, I suppose that we'll have to get the theoretical stuff down first, huh?" Jason thought for another moment. "And how much about the Night World did this Mr. North teach you, anyway?"
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Post by Aly on May 20, 2009 0:36:58 GMT -5
"I listen to them, but only for the class's sake." Poppy started, then laughed. "I'm the only one who can move around in my room. But Mr North's information wasn't all that much, admittedly. Just stuff about the Night People, and hwo to protect myself from them. Like wood for the vampires and silver for the werewolves and shapeshifters, and so on. And that spell. I have sort of inherited his books, though." She smiled, hoping that was helpful.
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Post by Audiva on May 26, 2009 20:42:37 GMT -5
"So, you've learned a little, then. I can teach you more of the basics, and the lore of the Night World as we go along," Jason told her, waving a hand absently. "I'll have to find my basic books, at that," he mused out loud. "I don't use them very often, so they're sort of hard to put my hands on, if I look for them..." he trailed off, sighing. "I suppose I'm going to have to clean to find them." he shook his head. "So, I'll bring the set of laws and so on, and the most basic stuff I can find - anything else in particular that you'd like to learn about that might be simple enough to start out with once you've got the basics?"
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Post by Aly on May 27, 2009 10:39:53 GMT -5
Poppy listened to him talk to himself, and caught herself giggling. Then he said clean - and she smiled. "I can clean for you!" she said. "I used to do housekeeping, before I got a job with book-keeping." She nodded, then drifted into her own thoughts; of course, she didn't know anything else about magic, what else there was to learn. "I don't know."
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Post by Audiva on May 27, 2009 20:00:36 GMT -5
Jason bit his lip. "I'm not sure that's exactly safe...there's some really...umm....interesting stuff in my apartment. You'd have to do it while I was there, if at all," he told her. "I think I know where some of the books I need are, but honestly, I haven't cleaned in a long, long time, so if you want to come over there, then you've been warned..."
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Post by Aly on May 28, 2009 11:24:35 GMT -5
Poppy laughed. "You have to see my room first, and get your bearings. It's as clean as it has been in a while." She smiled slightly. "Then we can see if I can clean your house. Apartment. Whichever."
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Post by Audiva on May 28, 2009 18:19:10 GMT -5
"Well, I think we're going to have to see who is messier, since it appears that we both seem to think that we are," Jason said with a laugh. "I wouldn't mind it being clean, though, so after the first lesson - if this works - we can attempt to clean that, maybe even with a spell or two tossed in," he suggested.
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Post by Aly on May 30, 2009 10:10:01 GMT -5
"That sounds good!" Poppy nodded, rather enthused by the idea of fairy-tale housekeeping. "When will the next lesson be? After tomorrow, I mean."
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Post by Audiva on Jun 1, 2009 10:14:07 GMT -5
Jason considered that for a moment. "Well, I don't think I actually have anything to do Wednesday, if that would work for you..." he trailed off, trying to think of a few other days that he would be free to teach her that week. "And if that doesn't work, Thursday or Saturday would," he told her.
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Post by Aly on Jun 3, 2009 12:10:37 GMT -5
"Wednesday works for me." She smiled, still mentally spinning in circles. She'd thought that today would be another boring day at the bookstore... but, no.
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Post by Audiva on Jun 4, 2009 14:18:17 GMT -5
"Okay, so Wednesday it is, then. Do you want me to wait for you after school like tomorrow, and then we could walk back to my apartment or something?" he asked, smiling slightly as he looked down at her.
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