Clouds in my brain, vision in my eyes; dictated and backdated a few days

[inlifesname]

Okay, if you haven't noticed all the sleepwalkers by now, I'm guessing that you've walled yourself up somewhere and have buried the journal or something.

But- [a yawn] - I'm not the only one to notice the other things, right? Something is just... off. It's like we've gone from the color part of The Wizard of Oz back to black and white, except we haven't made it back to Kansas.

It's not just me, right? It has to have something to do with everything else and I keep trying to look into it, but- [But she keeps spacing out over her Manual.] Let's just say it's not easy to focus.

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dictated;

[ensorceler]

You are correct, and must take a care for your safety.

dictated forever

[inlifesname]

Oh, don't worry about me. I can handle this. [It sounds more flippant than it is. Really, her confidence comes from past experience. She's dealt with far worse.]

[ensorceler]

As many seem to keep saying, even the children.

[inlifesname]

But I'm not just a kid. I'm a wizard. I can handle it and I have to. It's part of the job.

[ensorceler]

A wizard. ...A witch.

[ A pause. By now she has learned to keep disdain from her voice. She adored Morgana, but so hated Merlin. Such control of magic can either irk or awe her, but she despises the unpredictability and the proof of her own lack of power.

But it is better to have a witch with you than against you, and good witches are to be noted. ]

[inlifesname]

A wizard. [She says firmly. Wizards are wizards, whatever their gender.] And probably not like you're thinking.

[ensorceler]

[ Well witches are witches, no matter their gender! Warlock is such a silly word... But they're all the same thing to her, really. No difference in wizards or sorcerers or mages. ]

You assume what I am to think?

[inlifesname]

[Oh, Powers, is she digging herself deeper here?]

Well, most people tend to picture the flying-on-broomsticks kind. My wizarding partner, Kit, had to convince his mom that weren't dabbling in dark forces. [From the way she says it, it's clear that she thinks this laughable.]