Mira laughs. "I mean, lots of people know how to shoot up here too, hunting
and stuff, my parents are just not super into that." Understatement. It's
not something they talk about a lot, but the one time Mira can remember it
coming up was over one of Etta's crushes owning a gun; he had been 18 to
her 16. Her father knows how to shoot a gun, but it's one of the few things
he doesn't take any argument on -- he wants them nowhere near his family.
"Yeah, that's kind of how I feel about it. Anything that happened then --
it's out of your hands."
Mira grins at the ground at the idea of Raleigh literally creating an
elephant in the room. "I'm glad you didn't end up with an elephant? I mean,
where would you have put that. Oscar's much cuter."
She nods more seriously as she talks about Les lacking any subtlety in
describing witches' power. "Yeah. That's a lot of power. I mean, I trust my
friends, but -- that's a lot." She thinks of Davin with his Magneto
powers. He could kill someone with that. Easily. Or whatever he'd learned
to block her nightmares; she's sure the opposite exists. "And what happens
if someone brainwashes them? Because apparently that just happens around
here."
It wasn't just humans in that cave, for one thing, Mira thinks. Les, Coop,
Michaela, Aoife. They're all magical and they'd all been lured by some
random siren. Joel'd had a demon possess him. Davin had been affected like
the rest of them in this fairy tale spell. There's nothing to say their
powers couldn't be used against them.
"I should," she nods. "Joel's great. I mean, I've been coming to Crossroads
since I was an awkward teenage weirdo and we talk physics all the time."
Mira's glad that now she's old enough to know what Joel needs sometimes:
Spencer and Joel getting together while she was away was like some geeky
surprise made exactly for her. "He probably is the right person to ask."
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Mira laughs. "I mean, lots of people know how to shoot up here too, hunting and stuff, my parents are just not super into that." Understatement. It's not something they talk about a lot, but the one time Mira can remember it coming up was over one of Etta's crushes owning a gun; he had been 18 to her 16. Her father knows how to shoot a gun, but it's one of the few things he doesn't take any argument on -- he wants them nowhere near his family. "Yeah, that's kind of how I feel about it. Anything that happened then -- it's out of your hands."
Mira grins at the ground at the idea of Raleigh literally creating an elephant in the room. "I'm glad you didn't end up with an elephant? I mean, where would you have put that. Oscar's much cuter."
She nods more seriously as she talks about Les lacking any subtlety in describing witches' power. "Yeah. That's a lot of power. I mean, I trust my friends, but -- that's a lot." She thinks of Davin with his Magneto powers. He could kill someone with that. Easily. Or whatever he'd learned to block her nightmares; she's sure the opposite exists. "And what happens if someone brainwashes them? Because apparently that just happens around here."
It wasn't just humans in that cave, for one thing, Mira thinks. Les, Coop, Michaela, Aoife. They're all magical and they'd all been lured by some random siren. Joel'd had a demon possess him. Davin had been affected like the rest of them in this fairy tale spell. There's nothing to say their powers couldn't be used against them.
"I should," she nods. "Joel's great. I mean, I've been coming to Crossroads since I was an awkward teenage weirdo and we talk physics all the time." Mira's glad that now she's old enough to know what Joel needs sometimes: Spencer and Joel getting together while she was away was like some geeky surprise made exactly for her. "He probably is the right person to ask."