she moves and it's fire, fire underwater

[ex_oneiromancer912]

[Morgana is trying to read in the library by candlelight. She does so for some time, paying little mind to the candle as the wax builds up and dulls the light. Until it goes out entirely.

Annoyed, Morgana looks to the candle—her eyes flash gold—and then the candle is lit again. For the briefest moment Morgana looks satisfied, before surprise and fear move in so fast that she starts and knocks the candle over, spilling wax everywhere as it sputters out again.]

It must have been...

[And now she doesn't even have any matches.]

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[punkblaze]

[Eithan came to the library to find a more comfortable place to curl up and take a nap, but Morgana's voice catches his attention and he starts that way, fireball in hand once again. Flames around books? Probably not the best idea, but it's better than running smack into a bookshelf. Which he's already done at least once.

... Ahem. Anyway. He walks over and picks up the candle for her, and even lights it back up with the fireball before offering it to her.]

Here. You okay?

[ex_oneiromancer912]

[She is quiet for a moment, looking at the flame. She almost asks him, but then she stops herself and forces a smile.] I'm fine. Just an accident in the dark. And you are well?

[punkblaze]

[He nods.] Yeah. Just really damn tired... I thought they might have somethin' more comfortable in here to take a nap on.

[ex_oneiromancer912]

I know there were some long chairs [she means sofas] on the higher levels. [But she hasn't gone up because the less chance of tripping in the dark, the better.]

[punkblaze]

Long chairs? Huh. I'll have to check that out later. [Sure, he's tired, but he'd rather not leave her alone in the dark.]

What were you doin'? Other than just sittin' in the dark.

[ex_oneiromancer912]

I was reading a history I found. It's about how the magical community will attempt to preserve itself against persecution from those who do not have magic and fear it in what is to me the future.

[It's Harry Potter.]

[punkblaze]

[... That's so cute, Morgana. But, Eithan frowns a bit.]

Persecution? Just for knowin' how to use magic?

[ex_oneiromancer912]

Yes. With... witch hunters. And others who have no tolerance for it. [Morgana. Morgana. You're on Book One. There are no witch hunters in Book One. There are no witch hunters in any book, except the very short mention at the beginning of Prisoner of Azkaban.]

[punkblaze]

And that's... the future for you? [He winces a bit - that's not something you want to hear about someone going through. At all.]

[ex_oneiromancer912]

I don't know. It isn't my present. In my time, there are witch hunters and the Druids have a community apart from our own, but there is no place where children with magic can go to be taught how to use what they have. If there had been one, it would have been destroyed in the Great Purge.

[Uther destroyed Hogwarts!!!]

[punkblaze]

[That bastard! Someone get a time-turner!]

Great Purge? That... that sounds really ominous.

[He grabs a chair near her and takes a seat.]

What happened? I mean... if you even can talk about it. If it's too hard to, you don't have to. Trust me, I understand.

[ex_oneiromancer912]

[She pauses for a moment, but shakes her head.] I was just a child when the Purge happened, and my father was the king's close friend. It was a purging of the Old Religion, over twenty years ago. The king waged war against those who practised magic. He killed most of them, and no one has openly practised magic and lived in Camelot since.

[punkblaze]

[Eithan can't believe what he's hearing.]

What in hell...! Why? Th' hell gave him that right?

[ex_oneiromancer912]

[Where before Morgana would have spat out a strong condemnation of her king, now she hesitates. Her answer is careful.] His Majesty saw those who used magic as a threat. He saw them as.... as treacherous. And evil. He said he had to purge the kingdom of magic to protect his people.

[punkblaze]

[Eithan shakes his head slowly.]

Man... Yeah, magic's powerful, but couldn't there have been some other way or somethin'? I mean, to kill people just for bein' mages...

[ex_oneiromancer912]

He—he thought it was the only way. He did what he was thought was right. [She isn't quite managing to balance her feelings for Uther with her anger at his actions, but she is trying.]

[punkblaze]

No, yeah, I get that. I just... There should have been another way, you know? I'm just... sorry it happened at all.

[ex_oneiromancer912]

It's... passed now. Uther is dead, and the new king does not as eagerly pursue his father's wars.