<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/cc/CatMoore01.jpeg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong> Melody Fairchild-Harrow<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong> As pictured<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong> Lunchtime excursion in 'mundane' Vancouver<br/><strong>TIME:</strong> Late morning<br/><strong>CONTENT:</strong> Curiosity and embarrassment<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong> Kaspian, Kaleigh, Open<br/><hr/><br/>Letting slip another snort of laughter, Melody shook her head at her companions... while inwardly wondering if she might have to put in some mental preparation in advance of future excursions with them, to better cope with the banter!  For someone generally accustomed to either passing wholly-unseen by mundanes or having them <em>look but not speak</em> courtesy of her appearance, playfully teasing interactions with unfamiliar 'normal people' were rather challengingly novel.<br/><br/>Fun, too, but a bit daunting!<br/><br/>Still, there were rather serious matters in hand, and it seemed wise to focus upon them - though not without keeping a wary open for any mundanes, especially Kaspian's friends, coming close enough to overhear their decidedly unconventional conversation.<br/><br/><br class="clear_left"/>"Given the, err, very <em>strange</em> nature of what we saw... well.  That would suggest that this is either a new approach to magic - a recent discovery, perhaps - or something old and hidden.  Perhaps <em>outlawed</em>...?  I could imagine that if something like this had been discovered in the past, there might have been a great deal of interest in suppressing knowledge of it.  Preventing further exploration of something that... well.  That is <em>that</em> dangerous, and that leaves whatever the heck that goo was in its wake."<br/><br/>"That... the goo could be relevant on a couple of fronts.  Both as a way to track its presence, and perhaps, if it lingers or stains things, to track where it has <em>been</em> summoned... and in whatever effects it has on what it touches, or what it is given the chance to soak into.  A lot of people would love to be able to conjure up a demon that dangerous -  but doing so becomes a lot less appealing if it's easy to tell when and where it was used, or if it infects or warps or corrupts areas in which it spends time.  Fabulously dangerous killers have obvious uses; those that leave highly-distinctive calling cards wherever they go are rather more problematic."<br/><br/>"Sorry.  I think I might be going in circles a little, while thinking aloud.  But I think that if this <em>isn't</em> a wholly-new discovery, there should be records of at least some elements of it <em>somewhere</em> out there.  And if we could find Warlocks who were willing to discuss lore of, err, <em>strange magic</em>, then they might well be able to provide us with something.  Or we might find records of it in the Institute, of course, if someone previously managed some sort of investigation into this.  But either way, I think it's safe to say that this magic has not seen remotely widespread use in recent times - or else we'd have heard about it.  Likewise, for the 'powerful enough to make a tanker vanish and then reappear on the other side of the world' side of things."<br/><br/>Then she registered the food-theft - blinking at Kaleigh before letting slip a startled laugh.  "It is, huh?  I shall have to bear that in mind in future..."<br/></div>