Masako's Journal (Kara Winters)

[Kara Winters]

[I Didn't Mean To I Swear!]

It was getting late, which in itself wasn't unusual. In the small workshop of one particular potion maker, Kara Winters rubbed her eyes while glaring at the ink splotched paper of her workbook. Sitting upon the tall stool, with only a one small lamp for light she tapped the tip of her pen on the paper. Tilting her head to try to get the kinks out of it she looked towards the current project she was working on.

"Let's get this over with," she muttered to no on in particular.

Kara Winters, a mother, an innkeeper, the headmistress of the magic class and a part time potion maker and rune fanatic was spending another all nighter. She sighed laying her pen down before taking some herbs, dusts and a shining gem that some random traveller had found and given to her. She studied it for a minute or two, it was quite a curious thing. Kara had in the past always recieved curious objects from travellers who would not accept her hospitality without paying her. This was one of those curious objects, and she was sure she could use it in a potion. Otherwise all it was good for was to set it for a necklace. In the shape of a blue star, the gem glowed and vibrated slightly, perhaps it was foolish of her to try to use a gem she didn't even know what it was and therefore would not know the outcome.

However it was getting very late, and Kara wished to sleep, but she wanted to try to finish this potion. It was something she had been meaning to try, to create a better protection potion that would stop attackers. Granted that was asking for a lot, which was why.....

"Three nights and nothing...."

She took some grounded up Lapis Lazui and sprinked it into the bottle she was using. A few drops of water that had be distilled until one was sure if it's purity. It was only then did she take a deep breath and dump in the strange gem.

The result was... unexpected.

Green eyes blinked as they stared up at the ceiling in front of their owner. She blinked once, twice, three times for good measure before Kara concluded that she was on her back, on the floor of her workshop. Now the question was... how did she get there?

Kara sat up and blinked again.

Now she remembered, the potion she was making, it felt as if the vial exploded the moment the gem touched the liquid. Perhaps it had, it wasn't unusual that potions would have a tendecy to explode. She wondered if she woke anyone up.

She looked at the worktable to summarize the mess she made.

An eyebrow rose, there wasn't any shattered glass upon the table, or splatters of blue liquid on the walls. Minus the fact the stool she had been sitting on was tipped over, nothing looked different except....

The young woman tilted her head as she rose from the ground, brushing off the dirt from her dress. Her feet clicked on the stone floor as she strolled up to the worktable, plucking from its surface a single vial. It looked like the bottle she had been using... only the neck of it had streched to the point where it was crooked and narrow. The liquid inside the bottle looked to be the same watery Lapis Lazui she had used, but it glowed and swirled around the bottle without her even moving it. The strange concotion bubbled and fizzled. Carefully, Kara set the bottle down.

How odd.... perhaps she would keep it instead of disposing it, Perhaps something interesting will come of it.  

[Kara Winters]

[It's an Blob! Err... Egg....]

Though she doubt she could ever recall the exact time of day, or what the weather was like outside on that day, she most certainly could recall the moment itself. Kara, was not one to waste anything much less a glowing vial of liquid that seemed anything but ordinary. For some odd reason, perhaps because she wanted to keep an eye on it, or maybe she didn't want to leave it lying around Kara had been using it as a paper weight on her desk. Besides, things and pests seemed to avoid her workstation with the vial around, perhaps she thought it would be useful in the garden.

What she was doing at the time, that was also an uncertainity but she was sure it had something to do with student reports. Whatever she was doing, she had noticed (though she did not know how much time had passed until she actually noticed) that the vial's glow had dimmed. Her brow furrowed together, focused on the tiny glass bottle. Perhaps the stone's power had run out? It was plausible.

Suddenly there was a 'clink', not a loud one, just one so tiny she would have thought it was just simply a small object brushing against another. She stared at the vial seeing a tiny fissure in the once perfectly smooth glass. Kara watched in a kind of morbid fascnitation as the fissure grew and crawled along the side of the vial.

"I think I should duck...."

As if the thought had set off a trigger inside of the vial the glass shattered with a bright flash of light. Landing Kara, just like the day the vial was created on her back once more. She blinked staring up at the ceiling wondering if perhaps this was going to continue to happen. Slowly she lifted herself off the ground, looking around briefly before picking herself off the floor, dusting off any dirt on her dress.

There, floating a mere inches above the table surface was a... well personally to Kara it looked like a blob, with wings. Gently she used her fingernails to tap the top of the blob. Her nails clicked against the hard surface, as she withdrew her hand, she noted to herself it was more like an egg shell. So it was an egg with wings.... the question was... what was in the egg? At least that was what Kara was pondering until she heard a small voice in her head.

I'm in here...

Kara blinked before turning her head to look around her. There was no one else in sight. Nothing but her and the... egg. No.... Kara thought, it couldn't be the egg that was talking to her.. not in her head. Didn't she have enough things that talked in her head as it was?

Hello?

Obviously fate didn't think so. Kara sighed to herself, it looked like she had another ward to look after.  

[Kara Winters]

[Living Justice... Err... Not Quite]

It was suppose to be a normal day, though to be fair normacy as one would call it was in the eye of the beholder. And to be fairer, Kara hadn't known normacy since... well ever. Still, there were certain things in life Kara expected, there were certain things that just do not happen under normal circumstances, and having her own child play the role of judge, jury and proverbial executioner was one of them!

Though, Kara thought as she rubbed her temples trying her hardest not to be a bit amused by the situtation, she would suppose she would have to throw that idea out as well. For Masako as she was named shortly after she became an egg and offically given as a name once the Fury became a child; she was the ideal Fury. If you wanted a real Fury to go around punishing people who they deemed deserved to be punished.

Which was problematic when you worked at a school full of children, many she may add had issues.

Kara eyed Masako and her accomplices of Helen and Mia her two older sisters. The three got along better than Kara had hoped, if not... too well. She had been shocked when Masako's egg turned into a little girl, the fact she had once more another child to look after did not stop her. Granted there were days she questioned her sanity... like this one.

She drummed her fingers on the arm of her chair giving the three the look, only Masako had the nerve to act like she did nothing wrong. Truthfully that wasn't a surprise, Helen and Mia only did it because of Kara and because Kara was upset at the man (demon) for attacking her son. Granted the man was sorry shortly after and in fact it was the sole reason why he was now Kara's temporary babysitter. Masako on the other hand did it because she felt that was the justice in it. After all... that man attacked her brother without any proof that her brother did any wrong. Otherwise Kara strongly suspected that Masako would have not at all been upset had Triton been seriously hurt from that fight. If the rumours about him and Were were true, which they were not, which was now the reason for this problem.

Masako.... along with Helen and Mia, had tied up, declawed and dragged their babysitter down several flight of steps and dumped him into the snow. How they manged to do that wtihout causing him serious injury was a miracle. However she was digressing on her original train of thought, and that was, was how to deal with Masako who had such a black and white view on things.

"We are going to have a long chat," Kara told them, "About the need to listen to others even if you don't agree."

This... might take a while.