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[color=dc9999][b]”How right you are, Woolf.”[/b][/color] Carmen Quinones kept her eyes down and her face expressionless, though her quick, quiet words carried an air of stifled fright. Sitting only a row ahead of Wes she easily caught wind of the girl’s desperate murmur and, as Carmen’s own stomach began to churn with anxiety, she couldn’t help but agree. Magic, outlawed and dangerous, ran through her own veins like blood. 

Carmen was [i]cursed[/i] with these abilities-- she had no way to get rid of them after all-- and now she was about to be caught and forced away to some death row where the rest of her witch “sisters” would burn with her. Carmen lifted her eyes to the stage slowly and watched the announcer rifle through more speeches and news with the coldest eyes she could manage to share. A shaky sigh slipped through her usually tight lips, cold and terrified, and then all at once her expression steeled and she returned her gaze down to her knees.

On her lap sat a book, covered by an old romance novel slip to disguise the runes and mantras that curled against the cover and within the brittle pages. She flipped through the tome mechanically, licking her lips and stiffening each time a watchful teacher’s eye would pass by and then fade away back into the crowds towards the stage. It was a thoughtless rush of adrenaline she got from each encounter, and though her hammering heart begged for her to simply close the book and pretend to listen to the rest of the assembly something kept her eyes moving. Perhaps she enjoyed the feeling, the excitement. Maybe she just wanted to get caught already. 

[i]get it all over with ya know[/i]

[color=dc9999][b]”Maybe we can skip school,”[/b][/color] Carmen turned, eyeing the girl behind her emotionlessly, [color=dc9999][b]”it’s not like they can hunt us all down, right?”[/b][/color] She glanced back towards the other two sitting nearby, lips pursing anxiously. They couldn't hide forever, she knew that much, but putting off the shot for a few days could give them a chance to think of a better plan. Carmen closed the tome on her lap slowly and sighed again, eyes closing as another shiver of nausea and terror ran up and down her spine.