<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/6Mvy2bg.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Helena Cross<br/><strong>Student ID:</strong>WTCH715-2080<br/><strong>Age/Year</strong>19/Freshman<br/><strong>Area of Study:</strong>History of Witchery<br/><strong>Date and Time:</strong>Thursday, September 10th | After Class<br/><strong>Location:</strong>On-Site Bookstore<br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Mimi | Closed<br/><strong>Notes:</strong>Wearing (https://i.pinimg.com/564x/09/a8/a6/09a8a63ca0b99ae0788eb4a86b19c380.jpg), with a Sunhat.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>For a brief moment, there was this slight darkening of Helena's cheeks. It was barely a flicker, as she felt that wave of nausea and embarrassment at the idea that she might have pressed the joke a little too far...That Mimi's comment was a targeted rebuttal; a slap in the face. Awkwardness led to that clammy fear of being alone again, and ostracised, but it vanished quickly enough when Mimi just...carried on like nothing had happened. She made jokes, and comments, and it was like nothing had gone wrong at all.<br/><br/>The Englishwoman just shook it off, focusing on what Mimi was saying and smirking at the mention of Mrs Poole and her cheeky cauldron's craft. “<strong>Personally, with the way she was eying up Miss Crane, something tells me she doesn't need any help getting herself eager, hungry, and hot under the collar.</strong>” She bit her lip, remembering the awkward scene from Hexology, and the downright scandalous way it had devolved. Was Helena just seeing things that weren't there? The Horniness of the Gamma Rho Lamba sisterhood might just be tainting her perspective, but there was a<em>lot</em>of fucking going on in the entire University. It helped to know that even the experts of a craft could make mistakes though; it humanised the magical process. Reminded her that maybe her methodology to mastery that focused on repetition and preparation was not all that unusual after all. Deep down she still thought that maybe she was just playing catch up to the naturals, but then Miranda Crane<em>was</em>supposedly the most natural of naturals. So much so that the WITCH rival was trying to poach her.<br/><br/>Mimi's tangent was interesting, even if the eventual conclusion led her to redden her cheeks a lot more than before, and for a longer time. Helena's working relationship with Nadine was relatively new, and the thoughts of her instructor's...proclivities was hardly a particular secret but...but to just blurt it out was... “<strong>I-I guess it makes sense? Utility and not a crutch...</strong>” Her eyes wandered, only just realising that Mimi had found the book she'd put back and picked it up for herself. In truth, she was still internally debating whether she agreed or not. “<strong>But then, surely it makes sense to maximise your potential by maximising exposure. Trying new things, exploring new facets, unearthing new secrets...It helps you discover new joys, new treasures, new experiences...</strong>”<br/><br/>Her mind briefly flashed to the thought of Nadine – Whips and Chains included – and all of those new experiences she was starting to touch upon herself as part of WITCH.<br/><br/>“<strong>...I dunno. Maybe I'm just too curious to want to look at anything else. Imagine it'll be different in a couple of years, when I'm as ingratiated with the possibilities of the Arcane as you or your sister.</strong>” She shrugged a little, reaching for another book, seemingly at random, and finding it to be a dusty Asian thing, written in foreign enough text that – with just a simple hex applied after scanning the thing for traps, translated itself in real time from what looked to be Hindi into English. This tome focused on applications of unusual hexes in the form of 'miracles'. Hexes that changed appearance, and altered physiology, and even summoned a few minions from other realms.<br/><br/>...She tilted her head, delighted by the unusually divine word choice used in the piece. It combined Religious phraseology and Magical ideology in a wonderfully bizarre way. “<strong>Looking for anything particular in that book? I'm pretty sure I can connect you to a couple of girls who know a brew for a quick and messy bit of fun.</strong>” Her mind went back to her first meeting with the ladies in GRL on the first Weekend. That had been...quite the finish to her first night.