[OPEN] Can the city forgive;

[mindbend]

Who: Wanda Maximoff & you!
Where: Training Center & Magic Training Room
When: 10/21
Rating: PG?
Summary: Slowly but steadily, Wanda is learning to trust herself and her powers as well as her teammates, but there's always room for more practice.
The Story:

[The morning of the 21st finds Wanda in the Training Center shortly after breakfast. It's still empty when she gets there, although she's sure it won't stay that way for long-- she expects people to trickle in throughout the course of the day, teammates and other Wonderland residents alike, but she likes it best when it's quiet. Over time, she's improved when it comes to working with her teammates, but she still feels safest when she has the opportunity to practice alone. She hasn't had any accidents since arriving in Wonderland, but she still doesn't quite trust herself-- or how much stronger her powers seem to be than she first realized.

She spends the better part of the morning training with the targets provided, flinging hex bolts of various sizes and strengths, testing and aiming to refine her control over distance and impact as well as aim. Steve was right when he told her that she would learn more when there was another party involved, especially when it came to having to think on her feet, but she maintains that there are certain things she can only do by herself, things that can only be properly tested and practiced in a controlled environment.

Late in the morning, one of her bolts goes rogue and damages one of the dummies she'd been practicing on more severely than she'd intended. Grimacing, she levitates the target itself from its post and detaches it, bringing it to her rather than walking over to investigate, turning it over in mid-air before she passes a hand over its body, focusing until the metal itself begins to bend itself back into shape, mending.

The rest of her training goes mostly without incident, and after lunch she dips into the Magic Training Room. While she doesn't have any lessons planned with Billy today, she's been meaning to take the time to spend an hour or two looking through some of the books in the collection he's assembled during his time in Wonderland. As it turns out, she ends up staying there for the better part of the afternoon, and can be found either perusing the shelves, investigating potion reagents, or sitting in front of the fire with one of the books she's helped herself to.]

Comments

[hashtagging]

[ Loki chuckles, flopping sideways in a chair and slinging her long legs over the arm. ]

In the flesh.

[ She reaches out, caressing the edge of a book someone left on the table next to it. ]

I find it has become a favorite of mine, as well. It is a wonderful little place in the midst of all of this.

[mindbend]

[Wanda watches her with interest, curious about how at ease Loki seems to be-- no matter where she goes, apparently.]

You spend a great deal of time here, then.

[If Wanda had begun frequenting Billy's study a bit earlier, they likely would have crossed paths long before now.]

[hashtagging]

I do. While I would be terribly crushed to lose my phone and all of the convenience it offers, there's just something about having shelves of books that is delightful.

[ Loki flashes her a grin. ]

The fact that they are all chock full of magic is just icing on the cake.

[mindbend]

[She smiles a little in a show of solidarity, understanding.]

I like the way books smell. For all the convenience other methods offer, there are some things that cannot be replaced.

[The way the scent of books brought back old memories was impossible to ignore; it reminded her of when things were simpler, of the quiet afternoons she had spent reading by the window in her family's apartment before war had changed everything.]

The interest in magic should not surprise me-- that is your specialty, after all.

[hashtagging]

[ Loki laughs, swinging her legs around to sit up properly. ]

I suppose that it is. Though it is yours, as well, from all that I know of you.

[ Which was quite a lot -- at least, of one version of her. Then again, Loki should know better than to judge one version of a person on another. ]

[mindbend]

[Wanda nods stiffly in agreement, though there's a bit of hesitance there, as well.]

The Wanda Maximoff of your world is quite proficient with it, I'm told. I've yet to find out if my gifts are the same as hers.

[Similar, yes, but even their origins were different.]

[hashtagging]

Well, from what I have heard of your world, everyone there has gotten a late start.

[ She tilted her head, more curious now at that admission. ]

What sort of gifts do you have?

[mindbend]

Telekinesis. Telepathy. Energy manipulation.

[The last has countless applications, she's sure, some she's yet to discover for all her experimenting.]

Manipulation of thoughts, as well.

[hashtagging]

If you had just added in shape-shifting and Yamblr, you would have had a list of my favorite things.

[ That it does, ones that Loki is quite aware of herself. ]

[mindbend]

Yamblr?

[She glosses over the rest of the comment, unsure of how she feels about her list meeting with Loki's approval.]

[hashtagging]

[ Sigh. These poor uneducated folk. ]

Social media site where you can post pictures or videos or really whatever you feel like. It's highly entertaining.

[mindbend]

[She frowns, though only slightly.]

I suppose I am-- behind, on certain things.

[hashtagging]

That is a pity. There is great entertainment to be had in it.

[mindbend]

I was preoccupied at home. I'm sure you can imagine.

[Social networking hadn't been high on her list.]

Whereas here we seem to have infinite time-- and yet no access to anything that would connect us to any place beyond Wonderland.