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Mina had been taking advantage of the art building's lack of students quite often since the semester ended. She could use the computers in the graphic design room with the use of a keycard she had from her professor. It had been a productive day of editing photos and cleaning things up to post on her sales page.

Leaning back she saw the rain through the window and contemplated trying that mirror thing that Remarque had explained to her. She really hadn't done much of that powering-up thing yet because of the semester but this would be an easier opportunity to try than fighting against one of those youma things. Yea she had beaten one of the bird ones to dust with her tripod but apparently, there were a lot of meaner ones out now that it was summer.

So Mina got up and gathered her camera and bag to make her way down to one of the less populated bathrooms in the building. She knew the aura things were a thing and didn't want to deal with someone figuring out she was like a magical girl now. Ugh, it made her feel weird that she was like one of the characters from an anime when she just wanted to chill in the city.

Looking blankly ahead while she was in thought, she saw the motion of a hand being raised. Oh it was the pretty boy that haunted the theatre department. "Oh hey, Malory. I didn't think you would be out in the weather like this. Are you looking for a place to nap until the rain stops?" She smiled while playing with her piercings. "I'm just washing up before I head out in all this rain stuff. I still have some chemicals from photo processing on me." It wasn't completely a lie as she had done some processing before and preferred the abandoned bathrooms to wring out her sleeves if needed without getting stared at for taking her shirt off.

Mina smiled a bit more then nodded and returned a wave before making her way to the ladies’ room around the corner. It was probably cleaner than the men’s room but it still smelled grosser than the ones that were on the other side of the building. She pulled out her pen and assumed the form of Hela with all the excitement of a funeral director. It was a bit much in her opinion, the overlays and fluffy decorations. She liked the hat though, and the bracers. They were pretty neat.

As she reached forward to touch the mirror, she felt another aura pop up nearby. As in like really really close. No way… Malory is one too? Part of her wanted to peek out of the bathroom and see if it was true but she really didn’t want anyone to see her in this get up. Thinking for a moment, she called out down the hallway. “Hey Malory! Is uh… everything all peachy keen or am I tripping?” She wasn’t about to pop out of the bathroom but hopefully he heard her from around the corner since the bathrooms were so close. This was wild and also she could see him vibing with the whole magical boy thing probably.

Oh god this was really happening already wasn’t it. Someone she knew was a senshi and they were also the same type too. “Oh shoot I’m sorry uh Hybris, uhh I’m Hela.” After a bit of outfit preening, she made her way back around the corner. This was definitely not how she had expected this day to go. But the smile in his voice was reassuring, at least she knew someone now in the court. Not that she was sure he was the time to beat up those youma things. At least she could talk to someone she knew about all this new and weird stuff.

“Ok ok here I am!” She was laughing a bit now too as she stood there by the door too the men’s bathroom. “Is it like a requirement or something that art majors are magical? I didn’t think it would be literal to be honest. By the way I like your crown thing, I just have a hat and some dangling doos?” She leaned a bit to try and see the rest of him, from what she could tell at this point was that he had a milder color palette for his get up.

“How long have you been uh... Magical? It’s been just a few days for me so I’m still figuring things out.”

”I’ll say... I feel like a jester in a play or some sort of fancy person. But thank you for the compliment though, it is a lot to get used to.”
She another out her outfit again out of habit and nodded as Hybris leaned in close. She snorted a bit with her laugh as he brought up eggplants.

“Oh gosh mine is... Dolls? I can make little like likenesses of people and mess with them kinda sorta like those myths of voodoo doll things? I think reflection sounds cool though too, is it like in a video game where you can like counter things back against someone? That would be really useful, I think, if something happens.”

She went over the possibilities in her head of what his magic could do, most of them were neat and based on things from video games she played. “So what kinda stuff do you get up to and uhhh should we keep talking here nobody can like recognize us I think right?” She would probably die if anyone from her graphic design class saw her, everyone knew her for her comfy techwear she usually wore. The more pockets the better, for all her electronics and accessories for when she went out taking photos.

"Oh I uh can show you I think? As long as I don't mess with the doll once I make it I don't think it'll bug you too much? I understand if not though since I'm a lot newer to stuff than you are."

Peering over at the map, she thought one or two of the pins looked close to some mirrors she had hidden. "I think I have one hidden in a backroom of a storage unit near one of your pins. I also know of one that has been sitting kinda just in an alley with a free sign on it. I'm not sure how long it'll be there but it has been there for like a day at least. I have one in my place now that I went and got one, I wasn't much for mirrors before now so it's a little odd to have one in my place." She pointed at the pins that were by the places she had mentioned.

She had really only mirror-walked twice at this point so she was still a newbie to it but had remembered some rules she had been told about what things worked for mirror walking. "We can just pop through right and meet sorta nearby, at least outside of uni."