Date: 1870.04.12.2000 about a week after the kidnapping
Previous: DiscussingVoodoo

<#bill: "Hey."#>

<#court: Jeanne looks up and smiles. "Hey, Cole."#>

<#bill: He's quiet for a minute just sitting next to her.....if she doesn't make conversation he begins..."Jeanne, I was thinking. You were really against the idea of learning magic...but I was wondering how that white cross protects you, if not through some kind of magic.?"#>

<#court: "No, no... I was against using voodoo." She emphasizes the word. "Not magic. I said that."#>

<#bill: "Oh..." he looks thoughtful. "So...if I wanted to learn other kinds of magic..."#>

<#court: "The world is full of magic," she says matter-of-factly. "What other kind do you want to learn?"#>

<#bill: He shrugs, "I don't really know what other kinds there are."#>

<#ann: This conversation is of interest to Celeste, so she gets up and comes over from whatever it was she was doing.#>

<#bill: Cole looks up and smiles at her as she approaches then looks back at Jeanne.#>

<#court: Jeanne looks thoughtful and then looking speculatively at Ollie.#>

<#jonah: Ollie looks up.#>

Cal and Ella are smoking some lifted cigs. Valarie near them staring off into space. Deco is drawing.

<#jonah: He's been quietly practicing his hamboning, and he's got Deco tapping his foot while he draws.#>

Shawn is sitting on the sill nearest the way in, legs dangling over whittling something.

<#court: She looks back at Cole. "I don't know all of the magic either... there is the magic of the fairies and the magic of the old people. And there is other magic I do not know much about, too...." She trails off and her glance drifts to Ollie again.#>

<#bill: Cole looks excited....#>

<#court: "But I would also like to learn, if I can." Jeanne looks like she's done.#>

<#jonah: Ollie says, "wish I knew how to teach ya..."#>

<#bill: "How do you know about fairies and the....old people?"#>

<#ann: "Old people have magic?"#>

<#court: Jeanne smiles. "No, I mean, the people from before. From old times, you know?"#>

<#ann: Celeste nods her head, yes. "Like all the stories Mama used to tell me."#>

<#court: "Stories, I suppose. Rules, and ... um... I don't know how you call it. When you do something to protect yourself or to stop something from happening. Or to make something happen. That is a kind of magic."#>

<#ann: "About our ancestors in Africa, that they could fly or walk on water or spit three miles away. Do you know any ways of protecting yourself? Specific things, I mean, that you could teach us. Not like Ollie."#>

Those not involved in the conversation note that Shawn rolls his eyes a bit at the conversation but is keeping to himself.

<#court: Jeanne smiles at Celeste and looks intrigued.#>

<#jonah: Ollie, faux offended: "I'm right here... geez."#>

<#kate: Ella seems to be listening but keeping to herself.#>

<#court: Jeanne pokes him with her foot and grins.#>

<#ann: Celeste mock ignores him.#>

<#court: She looks back at Celeste. Hm. "Well, there is the cross we painted on the door."#>

<#court: "Maybe Ollie can help me think, too." She pokes him again. "They were just things we all did."#>

<#ann: "Is that magic? I thought that was God." She crosses herself automatically at the thought.#>

<#court: "God?" Jeanne looks startled. "Oh no, not that. That was to keep out the lutines. They are, um... playing pranks and bad mischief."#>

<#ann: "What's a lutine?" Celeste is fascinated.#>

<#court: "Like little fairies that do bad things."#>

<#ann: "Have you ever seen one yourself?#>

<#court: "No, we have kept up our crosses, mostly. Although here they do not seem to want them...But we still have the little one by the door." She smiles at Cole.#>

<#jonah: Ollie chimes up, "Mama used to have a mirror hanging by the doorway. She said that the Devil was so vain, that if he came in during the night he would spend the whole time staring at himself, until the sun rose and he left."#>

<#bill: “I don't understand. You said the crosses keep the bad fairies away, but you also said they don't want them?#>

<#court: Jeanne: "The crosses made of lime keep the lutines away. The orphanage does not seem to want our crosses."#>

<#ann: "So it's not just any cross, it has to be made of lime?"#>

<#bill: "Oh..." Cole says. "Well, that's probably because they don't know about the Lutines."#>

<#court: "Yes. And it should be on the barn door. Though ours was on the boat because we didn't have a barn. And here, we thought the orphanage was the best place."#>

<#ann: "I never had lutines at my house before....before the orphanage. Do they not like the city?"#>

<#court: "But Nora did not want our crosses." Jeanne looks bewildered and looks at Ollie. "Are lutines only in the bayou? I think they are everywhere?"#>

<#jonah: Ollie says, "Celeste, you mebbie jus never saw 'em. Lutines is sneaky. They steal your food when you not lookin, or maybe trip you when you're walkin up the stairs. Happens all the time to people."#>

<#ann: Celeste looks thoughtful.#>

<#bill: "I saw Shawn trip yesterday!" He smiles at Shawn.#>

<#jonah: "Where'd it happen?"#>

<#bill: "Comin' out the outhouse."#>

Shawn says, "You dreamin'"

<#kate: "And you got big feet." She softens the jab with a grin.#>

Shawn shrugs and smiles, "I’m a growing boy." Cal offers "Too bad your brain isn’t keeping up with your feet."

<#jonah: Ollie says: "Or maybe a lunite has it out for ya."#>

<#kate: @Cal "You're just jealous."#>

<#bill: "I don't think so, Ella. Looks to me like both Cal's brain and his feet is stunted."#>

Shawn rolls his eyes. "Ain’t no fairies." He goes back to whittling. Cal says, "My brain is at least 3 times as big as Shawn's"

Cal pops off the wall with a grin on his face. "Wanna come over here and say that Nicolas?"

<#kate:"His feet might not be big enough either." says Ella, swiveling to watch the pending spat.#>

<#bill: Cole pops up from sitting, charges him, and goes for the tackle.#>

<#ann: Celeste sighs and ostentatiously takes out her first aid kit.#>

Cal sidesteps at the last moment and Cole grabs air slamming into the wall where Cal was. Cal blows smoke in Cole's face and dances back.

<#kate: Ella keeps herself from tumbling over the edge.#>

<#bill: Cole shakes it off,stands up and grabs one of the sticks that usually litters the tower from previous sword battles. He tosses one to Cal. “Avast!”#>

”Enguard.”

<#bill: He brandishes his own.#>

<#kate: Ella stands on the ledge - keeping out of the way but amused at the action.#>

<#jonah: Ollie watches the older boys, transfixed.#>

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