[open] suddenly there are clouds all around and the clouds all around her are warm

[likeseggos]

Who: Eleven and you!
Where: Library
When: 11/21
Rating: Probably not more than PG-13 lbr
Summary: Eleven wakes up in Wonderland. It's fine. Everything is fine.
The Story:

[the last thing she remembered was stopping the demogorgon. disintegrating it into nothing … didn't she die? she was so spent, and it took so much of her, she thought that was the only way it could end. but instead of the cold, dark, dampness of the upside down, or simply the nothingness of being dead, she found herself here. wherever here was.

as she takes in her surroundings, she realizes she's surrounded by books. she doesn't really care about books — she can read, sort of, but giving her a proper literary education was never really a priority in hawkin labs. what she does know about books in general though, is that the best ones are big and heavy. and that is why she starts grabbing the lengthier hardcover tomes off the shelf without so much as really glancing at what they are. because in a corner, she's … building a fort out of books??? or at least a sizable small collection. to chuck at people's heads.]

Comments

[likeseggos]

[she wipes at her nose with her sleeve for a brief moment before asking, brow furrowed with curiosity]

Sorceress?

[mandrakes]

What you just did, where I come from, would be considered magic.

[He gives another of those small smiles.]

And women, even young ones, who practice magic are often called sorceresses.

[likeseggos]

[magic. that word again. she seems to take his words in and consider them, putting her hand against her chest.]

I'm a sorceress. [not quite a question, but she does seem to be trying the statement out to see how true it feels.]

[mandrakes]

[She doesn't sound sure, and he wouldn't push a label like that onto anyone. Not with the kinds of baggage that it pulls along with it.]

Perhaps. Do you have other talents? Things that you can do that others call magic?

[likeseggos]

[she nods, then pauses while trying to think of how to describe her powers.]

I can go to the Upside Down. And see inside people's minds.

[mandrakes]

[Ah.. Very powerful indeed, then.]

And how did someone so young as you learn how to control those kinds of powers?

[likeseggos]

[her gaze averts] Bad place.

[mandrakes]

Ah. [No need to push. He just smiles.] I see. That would be absolutely none of my business.

[He lifts the volume in his hand.]

But.. thank you for the book, young miss.

[likeseggos]

[she nods, trying to smile back, and then scurries back into her fort like a little mouse.]