Choosing to Go or to Stay

Lizzy had hulled herself up in her room, she couldn't face the society right now. She was basically useless, she was no good at magic, her notes weren't even her own work. She was a fraud and a fake, perhaps she should return to her life on the streets? She stopped pretending to be good when she knew she wasn't, she was showing her true colors. That she was insecure, humble, easily put in to a depressed move or discouraged. Yet she did have some good traits, she could tell when something is wrong and does her best to fix it. She is quite understanding and has good judgement. She was also polite and quiet, but not liking to talk about herself and will try her best to change the subject.

Lizzy stood up, she felt like she didn't deserve to be here. She walked over to her cart turning it back on to it's wheels. Going to her trunk she opened it and began to pack up her clothing putting a spare in her satchel. Putting on her coat, packing up her blanket, tool box, and putting her food sack in her satchel she opened her door and walked to the kitchen to gather some food so she had enough for a few days and she had her canteen in her bag as well to refill before she left. She wasn't going to say goodbye, it would be harder for her to leave that way.

**Mz.Hyde:**

 Lizzy?

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  Lizzy jumped
turning. "Oh! Mz. Hyde! What is it?" She asked.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  Going out? I think
your suitcase is a little heavy for a night on the town!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "Yes i'm going
out... but not on a night on the town." Lizzy said looking away as she
then started to grab some food and put it in to her food sack. Her trunk
floated behind her.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  You're leaving?
Why?

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "Because i
don't belong here, none of my notes are my own, i am just a failure" Lizzy
said.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  But you're a
wizard! You use your magic all the time!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "I'm no
wizard. I'm a magician, there is a difference." Lizzy said after seeing
she had enough food began to refill her water.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  But you use your
magic all the time! How are you bad at magic!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "look at my
sister" Lizzy said.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  Who's your sister?

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "Maria! She's
the one that removed the rose off of Dreamer!" Lizzy called as if this was
a general fact. "She's a successful sorceress and look at me? All i can do
is levitate and cause things to disappear. That is stuff a child learns!"

**Mz.Hyde:**

  Well that's more
than I can do! Maybe you just need more practice!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "No this is
all i can do. All my type of magic user can do" Lizzy said.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  Maybe you just need
a mentor! Someone who can help you learn new tricks!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "No i can't
learn anything else! I told you i'm useless" Lizzy said putting the cap on
her canteen.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  You can't or you
won't?

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "I tried! My
magic just isn't potent enough!" Lizzy said.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  Is it? Or do you
just believe it is?

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "IT IS! I grew
up with a family of sorcerers that can test this! It just isn't!" Lizzy
yelled growing annoyed.

**Wizardblizzard:**

Isabella came into the kitchen. (She
hasn't been seen at the Society since the day Nex Hyde disappeared.)

"Believe what
is what? Oh... good morning, Miss er... I don't think you ever told me your
name?" She looked awkward. "Er, I probably owe you some explanations,
don't I..." She stopped, catching sight of the trunk,. "Is something the
matter?"

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "I can't you
all just let me BE!" Lizzy yelled trunk flying in to some cabinets along
with several other items most of them the food and tools immediately around
her.

Wizardblizzard:

Isabella ducked
behind a table. "Sorry - I really didn't mean to er -" Crouching, she
waited for the storm to die down.

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  Lizzy held herself
the objects going back to where they were. "No, don't loose control
again" She whispered to herself.

**Mz.Hyde:**

 Woah! Lizzy!
Oh, and I'm Mz. Hyde.

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  Lizzy drew in a
deep breath calming herself.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  Why are you calming
down? That was awesome!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "Wha!?"
Lizzy said cocking her head.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  Yeah! Hey! Maybe
you're not supposed to be a magician... but a mage! Like for battles and stuff!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "No i'm a
magician, mages use nature based magic" Lizzy recited.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  But maybe your
magic is chaos based!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "no it isn't. Its
emotion based" Lizzy said.

**Wizardblizzard:**

 "Pleased to
meet you Mz. Hyde. Whew. That was... impressive." Isabella stood up
cautiously. "I think you may both be using the words differently to how I
learnt them, I'm lost. How do you mean, emotion based?"

**Mz.Hyde:**

  It means that the
power of her magic is based on how she feels!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "My magic is
emotion powered, it goes more out of control as i grow out of control and
depending on how powerful my emotion and what emotion i'm feeling depends on my
magics power" Lizzy said.

**Wizardblizzard:**

 Isabella nodded
listening to both of them. "They say that's true of all magic to some
extent, don't they? that the most powerful effects happen only when it's
something that's close to the magician's own heart, not just a job of work? Oh
dear, I wish I'd had more practice at these things.
I'm Isabella Walker, by the way, of Watchingham. I forgot I never did introduce
myself that time, did I?"

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "Lizzy"
Lizzy said. "to some extent yes"

**Wizardblizzard:**

 "Pleased to meet you Lizzy"
Isabella nodded, listening. "I'm sorry I disappeared that time. I work as
a nurse at the hospital. I suddenly realised I was late for my shift and had to
rush... and by sheer bad luck, the next day I caught something and fell ill and
that was the last time I visited the Society until now. Perhaps it was
something to do with using my magic, it's a long time since I've been called on
to do anything. Was that other witch, Maria, all right? Looked as if she'd just
over-done it, but I left before she came round.

It's good to meet
another magic user here. I didn't expect that," she adds in all innocence.

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  Lizzy glared at her
eyes narrowing. "I don't trust you, my sister is no witch. Any user of
magic could sense her level of power know that it wasn't no witch." She
stood mood changing as she faced Isabella.

**Wizardblizzard:**

  "Something
wrong with being a witch? Not good enough for you?" Isabella snapped back.

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "no just the
way you spoke" Lizzy said.

**Wizardblizzard:**

  "And what's
that supposed to mean? All I said was -"
Isabella stopped herself and swallowed.
"I'm sorry, I'm tired. \*Is\* there something wrong with being a witch,
where you come from? I know it might not be a good thing among non-magical
people to be called a witch, but in my family it's a kind of compliment. Sort
of assumed it would be the same with you. How do you mean, wrong level of power
to be a witch?"

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "I'm from a
family of sorcerers, where if you called them a witch it would be considered an
insult. It sort of stuck with me. On the magical power scale it goes,
magicians, mages, witches/ wizards, warlocks, then sorcerers. Of course there's
a lot more magical beings but those are the main ones" Lizzy said.

**Wizardblizzard:**

 "Magicians,
mages, witches and wizards, warlocks, sorcerers," Isabella repeated.
"I see. I certainly didn't mean to imply anything about your sister's
talents - I know she has power, I saw her when she was working on breaking that
horrible rose-spell. I'm from the north, you see, in my part of the country,
witch means more like... like a job, almost, people who do the job of magic,
know how to do what needs doing, if something arises about magic that needs
doing?" (she floundered.) Like they say a 'good plain cook' - Walker girls
are supposed to grow up to be good plain witches..." She laughed rather
ruefully. "Though I'm not sure I'm considered a success by that
standard."

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "I see"
Lizzy remarked.

**Wizardblizzard:**

 "Whoops - I am sorry - I didn't
mean to start going on about myself like this."

A thought struck Isabella and she
frowned, puzzled.

"Just a moment, though, didn't
you say mages used nature magic? I wouldn't have called that a low level of
power. In the stories I always heard, some of the most terrifying things of all
were done by nature magic? Of course, I suppose how much you can do with nature
magic depends more than most things on how ingenious you are at finding ways to
use it. It takes a bit of imagination."

**Mz.Hyde:**

  She has a point,
trees are dangerous.

**Wizardblizzard::**

"Especially if
you fall out of them!" Isabella winked. "I heard about some man
hundreds of years ago, though," she added more seriously, "who pinned
his enemy to the ground and made trees sprout up through him... gruesome. Can't
remember who he was or what it was that was biting him, only about the trees.
History usually doesn't bear thinking about, does it?"

**Mz.Hyde:**

  Especially when
people think that it's all a bunch of folklore! Thankfully, I have friends on
the other side!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  Lizzy blinked looking at the two.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  Oh! Sorry Lizzy,
got a little carried away there!

**Wizardblizzard:**

 "Yes I'm sorry
about that... I don't often have the chance to talk to other people like us! So
um, what do you do at the Society?" she asked Lizzy brightly.

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "I
noticed" She said her suitcase floating to her and she finished packing
her bag. "And all i do is take up space" Lizzy said.

**Mz.Hyde:**

  No you don't! We
have what is probably an infinite number of rooms. I mean, let's face it, a new
one pops up for every new lodger that comes in!

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "yes I noticed
but every enlargement spell has its limits." Lizzy said looking at Mz. Hyde,
"this building is enchanted from the previous owners. I don't belong here,
I'm just a homeless girl who got to stay here not because of science"

**Mz.Hyde:**

  No. You got to stay
here because you're supposed to be here!

**Wizardblizzard:**

 "I'm not doing
anything either." *I'm not even doing what I came*
here to do,*Isabella thought. "Surely there's no need to*
throw yourself out just because you're not doing anything. Do you have anywhere
to go?"

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

 "No i don't
have anywhere to go, but i don't belong in a place where i do not do
anything" Lizzy said. "I can't contribute anything"

**Wizardblizzard:**

 "I
understand," said Isabella slowly. "but everyone has to live. Whether
they can 'earn' it or not. Everyone. Besides what do you mean you can't
contribute anything? You're the only person I know of here who knows about how
magic works!"

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  "That's
because i was trained in it when i was first learning before i was discovered
to be such a weak level of magic user" Lizzy said. "It's easy when
you get the hang of it, but there's probably loads of people who know how magic
works"

**Wizardblizzard:**

  "I haven't found any here yet.
Or - just a moment. How do you mean, weak level of magic user? You just flew a
trunk past my ear. Not to mention three forks and a loaf of bread. If that's
weak magic, I'd hate to meet one of your 'sorcerers' on a dark night."

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

 "I can loose
in a fight easily against a sorcerer that's just still in training" Lizzy
said. "A mage is stronger than a magician, witch stronger than a mage,
warlock, then sorcerer. I'm on the bottom rung on the ladder"

**Wizardblizzard:**

  "You're still
ON the ladder, that's more than most people can say. Besides, what's how much
magic you have got to do with it? Most of the people here haven't got any at
all. I think the important thing is what you know. Whatever you can do
yourself, at least you would KNOW a sorcerer if one came here and what needed
to be done about it. They need as many people here as they can get who know
about magic, with all the things they're fiddling with. Don't go and leave me
all on my own!" Isabella joked.

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  Lizzy looked down
thinking, she was right. She was needed her, they needed an expert in magic and
she was the best they got plus lizzy had connections to her sister and a
network of magic users around london that live on the streets. Her trunk
settled to the ground and Lizzy looked up smiling. "I'm staying!"

**Wizardblizzard:**

  Isabella smiled
warmly "I am glad." She laughed suddenly.
"I just noticed - Iz, Liz and Miz. now we can confuse everyone
completely."

**Miss-Dreamerkat:**

  Lizzy smiled at
that.

## Obtained From

Choosing to go or to stay

Choosing to go or to stay (part 2)