<div class="floatleft">(http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae282/caela_ecub/Brunettes/f9fe5328-dfec-48c4-9ebd-efcbba03efc1_zps882dd06b.jpg) (http://s980.photobucket.com/user/caela_ecub/media/Brunettes/f9fe5328-dfec-48c4-9ebd-efcbba03efc1_zps882dd06b.jpg.html)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Athena Stargazer-Smith<br/><strong>Position:</strong>PhD Student/Beginning Divination Professor<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Forest<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Rome<br/><br/><hr/><br/>She listened as he explained further, that<em>her</em>amulet had absorbed his somehow and a thoughtful expression crossed her face. It certainly wasn't a common practice to make magical devices of such complexity anymore. Most were simply objects, designed to do simple tasks. To have made something complex enough that it could be broken into pieces, and they would still identify each other was<em>amazing</em>! It made her wonder what they did when put together and pulled her amulet free once more, staring at it with new eyes, fresh wonder dawning on her face as she fingered the glyphs around the edge.<br/><br/>Looking up when he mentioned not prying into how she found the amulet in the first place, she chuckled softly, an amused grin just barely tugging the edges of her lips upward, "You already know I have it, asking how I found it isn't any big deal," she said, sliding the amulet back into her sweater to avoid being distracted by it again. There would be plenty of time to study it later. "It was a few days before my fifteenth birthday and I'd earned a free day (a day you could use to skip all of your classes, no repercussions) so I'd taken off to go diving. I was swimming a section of reef that was new to me and just felt like I was being drawn somewhere. I'd felt it before, but some magical marine animals use just such a sensation to draw in their prey so I normally ignored it. This time though, it was overwhelming.<br/><br/>I don't know how long, or how deep, I swam. I'd modified the Bubble-Head charm by then so that it would draw oxygen from the water instead of just holding whatever you start with. I love the deep water, everything's serene and calm, the colors are amazing and there's life down there that Muggles and Wizards have forgotten about.  Anyway, I was drawn deeper than I usually went, and there it just was. It was caught in a few pieces of coral and glowing that same red you saw before. It looked amazing there in the water, glowing for all the world as if it was calling me.<br/><br/>For all that I'm a Seer, I don't claim to know anything about Fate or Destiny. It could just be that I was the first Witch or Wizard to come close enough to trigger it. Gods only know how long it was buried down there until the coral grew enough to lift it out of the mud on the ocean floor. I think it must have been thrown there deliberately though, because, no matter how much I searched, I never did find nay other evidence of where it came from."<br/><br/>As she trailed off she listened to him talk about stepping on the wrong toes and laughed softly, nudging him with her knee, she pointed down at her right foot and nodded sagely, "The last two toes on that foot are the right ones, unless we're dancing, in which case there's no such thing," she said with a straight face. She managed to hold the serious look for all of 30 seconds before just bursting out into laughter and grinning impudently at him. "I'll admit, I'm hooked and I'm not above accepting help help to solve a mystery that has plagued me for just over ten years of my life.<br/><br/>As for the smile, it's charming enough, but I get the impression you know damned well how charming it is and have used it to good effect before," she added, unable to resist teasing him.