That looks good. The rules looked pretty easy to follow.
[ Caleb figures the game is just something to do while they chat, and since it's just the two of them he's pretty sure he can keep his overly competitive streak at bay.
He unboxes the game and starts setting up the board. ]
Are you keeping busy?
[ It's odd to be in a house. Dom housing is always busy and noisy, and here it's just Noah. Caleb's not used to having this much quiet during the day. ]
[The house feels too quiet and empty for Noah most days. It's lonely staying here without anyone but his jumpy dream cat for company. He spends as much time with other people as he can. In what seems to be an attempt to help with the set-up, he prods at some of the game pieces.]
Nothing new, just- working or hanging out with people.
[ It feels like forever ago since that first ball. It's been years for Caleb, and he'd been a nervous wreck now.
That's changed, at least. He feels a lot more steady on his feet, though the recent Realignment tour is taking up a lot of space in his mind. He keeps knocking it back and it keeps coming back, like one of those inflatable punching bags. ]
[He gets where Caleb is coming from, but it still feels different.]
I guess. [He moves one shoulder in a half-hearted shrug.] All I'm saying is, the only thing I could do in a magic store is work the register. It's not that kind of magic.
[The only marketable use Noah's found for being dead is what he does at the Scratch.]
[Noah knows next to nothing about D&D or how it works.]
I tried doing it once. Nate made a charm to help me with something else and he said I needed to- [There's a pause as he searches for the word.] -imprint on it.
Telekinetics back home say it's like... like you gotta feel the thing you're moving. I don't really get it, but I think you could probably learn, if you wanted to.
[He sounds... skeptical, but not like Caleb is totally bullying him into it. If he could get better at making it happen on purpose, maybe he could stop doing it without meaning to.]
[ Caleb doesn't actually have a lot going on personally. There's Cal, but that aside he mostly keeps to himself. Kinda hard to get things going when you're feeling everyone else's drama. ]
Who to contract with now that Adam and Blue are both gone.
[That's the biggest problem looming over him at the moment. Other problems like keeping the house—and with it, more importantly, keeping safe and hidden the patch of dream forest in the shed out back—sort of hinge on that.]
[ He says it immediately, without even thinking first. But a second later he gets self-conscious. ]
I mean, I'll put down in writing that your stuff is yours if I disappear. And if you find someone else down the line, I'll sign the stuff over. Cal will be cool.
[Noah's not expecting him to up and offer just like that, so it takes a moment or two for the words to sink in.]
Really?
[Maybe it can be that easy... He likes Caleb and they get along. Though he doesn't know Cal at all, that's not really an issue. Aside from one or two very specific people he'd rather not be around, he doesn't care who else his Dom contracts with.]
...You could move in, if you want. There's spare bedrooms.
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[ Caleb figures the game is just something to do while they chat, and since it's just the two of them he's pretty sure he can keep his overly competitive streak at bay.
He unboxes the game and starts setting up the board. ]
Are you keeping busy?
[ It's odd to be in a house. Dom housing is always busy and noisy, and here it's just Noah. Caleb's not used to having this much quiet during the day. ]
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[The house feels too quiet and empty for Noah most days. It's lonely staying here without anyone but his jumpy dream cat for company. He spends as much time with other people as he can. In what seems to be an attempt to help with the set-up, he prods at some of the game pieces.]
Nothing new, just- working or hanging out with people.
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[ It feels like forever ago since that first ball. It's been years for Caleb, and he'd been a nervous wreck now.
That's changed, at least. He feels a lot more steady on his feet, though the recent Realignment tour is taking up a lot of space in his mind. He keeps knocking it back and it keeps coming back, like one of those inflatable punching bags. ]
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[All the days he's taken off or the times that he's left early or unexpectedly. She's nothing but supportive, every time.]
I do some shifts at Reggie's place sometimes too, in the casino.
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[ He's pretty sure Sam was working for Blue there, before— well, before the whole murder thing. Caleb still doesn't know who started that. ]
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Nope. I wouldn't be much help with magic.
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[ That's how he's been thinking about Noah anyway. Magic ghost guy from the magic group. ]
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I'm around because of magic, but that doesn't mean I can do any.
[The things he can do as a ghost don't count, in his mind. It's not witchy stuff like they do in the shops.]
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[ magic or superpowers, both are things people can do that other people can't. ]
I mean, if my empathy is magic then everything you do is magic too.
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I guess. [He moves one shoulder in a half-hearted shrug.] All I'm saying is, the only thing I could do in a magic store is work the register. It's not that kind of magic.
[The only marketable use Noah's found for being dead is what he does at the Scratch.]
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[ He hands Noah the die so he can start the game. ]
What can you do anyway? I mean, I know you do something like empathy, but what else?
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I can... disappear, if I want to. [Sometimes also when he doesn't want to.] Be somewhere else. Or find people.
Sometimes I move things, or... things move near me, but not really on purpose.
[That only tends to happen if he's freaking out.]
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[ Caleb knows that sometimes an ability can't be controlled, but most people he knows gain some control once they start practicing.
He rolls the die, gets a bad roll, and frowns at the board. ]
This is why I don't do D&D, I swear my character would break his neck climbing off a horse or something.
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[Noah knows next to nothing about D&D or how it works.]
I tried doing it once. Nate made a charm to help me with something else and he said I needed to- [There's a pause as he searches for the word.] -imprint on it.
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[Usually all he feels when it's happening is overwhelmed and upset, so he's not sure where to start with that.]
I think I'd break a lot of things first.
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[ He doesn't want to push, but that's what they were trying to do back home; teach people with powers how to control them. ]
If you wanted. It might be fun.
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[He sounds... skeptical, but not like Caleb is totally bullying him into it. If he could get better at making it happen on purpose, maybe he could stop doing it without meaning to.]
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[ He's still afraid and he's been trying to avoid emotionally charged scenarios, but at least now he's pretty sure he'd know it's happening. ]
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[He quietly takes another turn in their game. Still looking down at the board, he adds,]
It can wait though. I have other stuff to figure out.
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[ Caleb doesn't actually have a lot going on personally. There's Cal, but that aside he mostly keeps to himself. Kinda hard to get things going when you're feeling everyone else's drama. ]
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[That's the biggest problem looming over him at the moment. Other problems like keeping the house—and with it, more importantly, keeping safe and hidden the patch of dream forest in the shed out back—sort of hinge on that.]
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[ He says it immediately, without even thinking first. But a second later he gets self-conscious. ]
I mean, I'll put down in writing that your stuff is yours if I disappear. And if you find someone else down the line, I'll sign the stuff over. Cal will be cool.
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Really?
[Maybe it can be that easy... He likes Caleb and they get along. Though he doesn't know Cal at all, that's not really an issue. Aside from one or two very specific people he'd rather not be around, he doesn't care who else his Dom contracts with.]
...You could move in, if you want. There's spare bedrooms.
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[ Plus, it'd probably be good for Noah too, even Caleb would feel the walls closing in if he lived on his own. ]
But uh, there's Cal also, and I know you don't know him, so if you're not cool with a stranger here we can keep hunting.
[ Caleb likes Cal a lot and he'd never leave him stranded, so they're a package deal for the time being. ]
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