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Who: Newt and YOU
Where: The Citadel
When: all through the event
Rating: PG
Summary: Innocent Hufflepuff is innocent... also drives for the first time
The Story:

Always the tourist - Citadel

If Newt had thought stepping off the boat into New York City had been a bit of a surprise and delight, it was nothing like the Citadel. For a time he just stood there, jostled by those moving around him, turning in a slow circle as if he might take it all in like that. It wasn't going to happen.

So Newt tosses himself into it all. Food. Nightclubs. Even sampling the alcoholic beverages, perhaps a few too many one night, but he is enjoying it all. After a time he forgets to worry and just enjoys. If he eats too much, dances like the biggest dork there is, or even tries his hand at the arena - where he is fairly bad - he doesn't care. It's exciting and new and he realizes he will look back on this as others do on Hogwarts, and he wants to experience it all.

There's no reason to panic - Driving

They were apparently like cars, which he has seen though never driven, and they fly. They. Fly. Also they were for rent. Maybe that wasn't the best of things, but Newt refuses to not experience it all. So he rents one.

He is hesitant, and slow, and may wreck - or nearly so. Yet there's a huge grin on his face the entire time.

Come and give me a smile - Pyjak

It was like nothing Newt had cared for before. It was simian in nature, with long spindly limbs, a looong tongue and longer ears. It snatched treats from Newt's hand before he could share them, and it was truly the most perfectly wonderful thing Newt had seen since he'd been brought to Wonderland. It let itself be pet, and stayed close to Newt as he moved throughout the city. He constantly spoke to it in soft tones, and shared all of his treats with it, and if he was constantly staring at the beast with wide eyes and a look of utter devotion, he couldn't help himself.

For the first time since he had come to Wonderland, Newt felt as if things were right, and good, and that he wasn't entirely alone.

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"No, it's okay, really." She wants to be reassuring, not make him feel he needs to blame himself for his preconceived notions of language. "You're not the first, uhm, h-human to ask me this sort of thing. A lot of people are a lot more wary about us when they hear about, uhm, bullet patterns and that sort of thing. I had my own questions about humans when I arrived, too." Considering she had met like, 2 of them at that point, tops. "It can be hard to, uh, adjust to new ways of thinking, or the rules of other worlds. Magic behaves differently all over, so something that works, uh, o-one place, might be different another, and that can be confusing."

"I will certainly ask questions. About how you were all trapped, about the bullet patterns, all of it. Not that I judge any of you for it, but because I'm curious to know what you've been through and how you came to be here," he admits, sharing just why he asks as many questions as he does.

"Has this place changed your magic that you've noticed?" He can't help but to ask. His seems the same. So far, but if there's a chance that will change, he feels he needs to know.

Now that's a curious question, and she tilts her head a bit, tapping at her chin. "Not that I've noticed, aside from uh, c-certain events that change the nature of the world as a whole. Not, uh, like this, but like, uhm... when we went to Hogwarts, and everyone forgot for a few days they didn't belong in t-that world. Or, t-the island, uhm... when some of us were mutants? But usually not in other settings." Those were both, objectively, wild. Getting to do magic so freely like that-- it was fun, albiet a little intimidating looking back on it.

She wouldn't have minded ending up at Hogwarts for a little bit more time, though. That event really was spectacular.

Newt nods with that question, having heard of those moments. Even in the space station though he still had the magical abilities he possesses now though.

"I've herd there are times when the entire place, us included, change, though I've yet to experience it. Some have complained to me though about the Hogwarts even doing just that though. Removing who they were, and not just putting them in what seems to be a new place."

He can't imagine how disconcerting that might be, and he hopes he never has to encounter an event like that.

"I've been considering how much things change and what that might mean. Like when they talk about the memories lost. Just... I don't get a chance to talk to other magic workers much here so I can't help but wonder."

"You know, it's surprising for all the work the science teams in, uh, W-Wonderland do, that nobody's thought to have a bunch of magic users talk to each other." It does seem that magic in different worlds varies much more than say, physics, but has no one thought to study it? "I know there aren't a lot of people like me, who, uh, think about the intersection of science and magic, but it would be useful to know, wouldn't it? How other world's magic works and, uhm, i-if applicable, how we could teach each other."

Sometimes, she feels, everyone gets so stuck in escaping Wonderland that nothing ever gets done to figure out how to best go about that-- or even just how best to relate to each other.

That makes Newt frown. "That is curious. Especially since it seems that so much of Wonderland runs on magic and not science. At least not as I know it," he admits, finding that curious to be honest. Maybe that's just because he came from a world where magic also ran so much of things, and despite living "outside" the muggle world, they didn't look to science first either.

"I suspect we should. If this place truly does run on magic, and they're using magic to take our memories, maybe that is what we should be looking into. If only if it might give us a few answers to this place. As for the intersection, I would be curious about it. I've not known a lot about science but I wouldn't mind learning."

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