riverviewlogs | [OTA] A New World

Who: Draco Malfoy^hp & OTA
What: Adjusting to the new Norm.
When: August 24th, evening. (Slgihtly Backdated)
Where: around the city.
Warnings: To be added as needed.

Draco's head swam with the new information. The welcoming, the video, the explanations. All of it. It boggled the mind. Stretched his ability to comprehend and adjust to its limit, threatening to break it. He had been given a room assignment and a job offer. He had hoped to retreat into solitude in order to collect himself... only to find he was sharing a flat with another. He'd stashed the broom he'd been riding when he'd come through the portal and what little things he'd been carrying and given.

Option A

Stepping outside of the communal housing Draco paused as he looked around, then down to the device resting in his hand. He'd been given some instruction on it, aide with setting up this Friendr... thing. But it was still largely a strange mystery. He didn't understand how it worked, and that was probably what bothered him the most. Sighing he shoved it into his pocket and looked around. Where to first?

Option B

Moving away from the communal building Draco just wandered. Letting his feet take him where they may. Turning when something struck his fancy. If he came upon an establishment that seemed open to the public than he stepped inside and peeked in. Looking at goods and services offered to try and see if they might offer things he'd need in the future.

[This option you can catch him wandering around or catch him inside one of the open to public businesses in town.]

Option C

After doing some wandering around the town Draco eventually stopped for a rest as the evening wore on. Finding a bench he stopped and took a seat. The walking had helped in some ways, but in others, it left him with more questions than answers. Still uncomfortable in this strange setting. Still very much on guard and watching his words so very carefully. It made him weary and he longed for solitude... yet he did not know if he would find it in his new residence being as he shared it with another.

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The moment he heard her start to speak, knowing someone's attention was on him, Draco clammed up. Mental shields snapping into place and his expression returning to the carefully constructed mask of social civility.

"I am perfectly fine, thank you." Draco had looked up before speaking and found the woman vaguely familiar. She was... Kate?

Kate smiled at Draco. "I'm glad to hear that." She looked out at the ocean. "It's beautiful isn't it?" She had been walking when she spotted his figure heading towards the water. She'd leave if he asked her too but Kate didn't honestly like being alone.

"And-" She turned back to him. "-it's nice to meet you in person."

Draco looked back out over the view, taking a moment before he responded. "It is, and different. But then much is here. Nothing is familiar, though I hear about magic. Not my own, though." He then gave a shrug. Loneliness different from what he'd felt since being inducted as a Death Eater and learning the horrid truth of the organization he'd idolized.

"Likewise. Kate, am I remembering correctly?" He asked to make sure. He was fairly certain his memory was not failing him. But just to be sure... he has to ask.

Kate smiled at him. "Yes." She was flattered that he had remembered her name after their brief conversation.

"There is a lot about this world that is strange." Which was saying something after what Kate had been through. "I don't know about it's magic but there is a research facility that looks into it, the portal and the magic of other worlds." She didn't know all the details but she knew that the building existed and if Draco was looking for answers he might find them there.

"Can I ask about your own magic? What's it like?"

That was good information to have. That there was a research facility dedicated to magic. He would have to go to this place and see if he could get some information. It would be good to make sure there would be no ill effects if he performed his magic here.

"Thank you for telling me that information, I will be sure to visit them." He said, giving her a brief smile.

"As for my magic, I am not sure I can explain that to you well. It is simply magic. You are born with a magical core or you are not. You use a wand to channel your magic and manifest spells. Some are strong and skilled enough to cast some spells without a wand, but that is rare."

Kate bobbed her head in a soft nod. "It seemed like something that might be useful for you." Really it'd be useful to anyone who used magic.

She looked thoughtful as she turned towards him. "The magic I'm used to is different. It's like ancient rituals that can turn night to day and open the way to some power well." She shivered at the memory of it. It had all been dark magic in her mind and it made her skin crawl thinking about it.

"I haven't seen anything with wands." Kate's understanding was that it was different between worlds. Those in her world didn't have to be born with magic to do these rituals.

Draco just shook his head. Such concept of magic was alien to him. He was going to have to visit this place she had mentioned to learn more, that was for certain.

At her words he took out his wand and held it for her to see, though not to take. "This is my wand. Faithful and trustworthy." Though it had served Potter for a time, it had still returned to him. "I would perform magic, but I do not know hwo it would react in this universe. I do not want to cause you any harm."

Kate's eyes ran the length of the wand before looking back up at Draco. "I think it would be fine but I won't make you if you think it's unsafe." She was inclined to believe him. "This world is an accumulation of so many places and cultures. The concepts of physics appear to be the same but magic is something different. With the way, that everything here coexists… I can't think that anything bad will happen."

There was hope in Kate's voice. Nothing else in the world made her as stubbornly sure as hope did. When she had first arrived she thought that she'd lost that hope but it was still there. She continued to believe.

Kate looked at Draco with a warm smile. "Is there a place you'd like to see? I can show you around some." She had time to kill before heading to work.

Draco gave a slight nod of his head. The concept was valid. Much was similar here, however the conversation he had with Obi-Wan Kenobi was still firmly within his mind. The man had abilities himself and hadn't seemed to notice anything amiss, but likewise seemed to operate with caution. Which cemented Draco's own cautionary approach.

"That may be, but this universe is wholly different. There could be the most subtle difference that cannot be first seen that could provide disastorous consequences." He said, pausing and giving the slightest of shrugs. "Magical Theory, among other things, is a hobby of mine. I will test my magic in my own time, in safety to ensure I will not inadvertantly be a danger to others. Just because their magic works the same doesn't mean mine will. LArgely is seems this place is populated with those whose worlds had magic anyone could learn, whereas mine does not. It is an integral part of myself." He said, the last bit with his hand rest upon his chest.

Draco then gave a shake of his head. "No, I am sorry. I have largely gotten a general lay of the land, right now I am just... resting."

Kate knew that this world was different but she couldn't help and see the similarities too. Gravity worked the same, as far as she knew Newton's laws were still relevant. Did magic even care about things like that? The magic that she's seen and performed had all been dark, involving blood and death. It wasn't something she was interested but since arriving in Quarantine she's seen more, brighter, magic at work.

Her expression softened as her chin dropped and her eyes looked down at her fingers. "Yes. That is true. It's wise of you to be careful." Her voice was soft but affectionate and kind.

"I'll leave you to rest then. If you need anything please let me know, okay."

[OTA] A New World

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