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"Painful? Oh, yeah, it definitely hurt a little, bit I'm pretty tough so it didn't hurt too badly. Plus, all the adrenaline." She rubbed the newly mended shoulder. "It actually hurts more now, now that all the adrenaline went away."

She looked into the distance. Perhaps she'd overestimated this kid. He only seemed to see the small picture, what was just around him immediately and not the purpose behind anything. Maybe she was wasting her time. It might be more pragmatic to leave him be and walk home, forget about all of this happening, she thought to herself as she massaged her shoulder.

"Well, you showed me your powers, so I showed you mine. That was the point. If you're gonna meet someone you want to get to know better, you show the cards in your hand as a sign of... well-wishing."

Melanie turned to look at him. "Do you see how that works at least?"

She reached behind her to pull out a book. It was a leather bound book, well-worn, with a small clasp keeping it closed. "I just thought it'd be nice to compare notes."
 
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"Oh...... ummm sorry. If i had have known you were going to do that..... i probably wouldn't have done that to you....." he said sort of guilty about what he had just done. He usually didn't care if anyone god hurt from his tricks but this girl seemed some how nice to him.

Even though she seemed totally fine he did feel guilty and he should probably just go with what ever she wanted to do since he felt like her owed her one. When she asked about the notes Joe was admittedly excited to share what he had recorded, he never had anyone who ever took interest or appreciated his work, he was also thrilled to see what she had her self."Yes..... i think i'd like to see what you have as well..." he said and timidly held out his notebook.

The book was practically filled with the people he meet, the experiences he had and other notes on powers stuff that he had learnt from reading library books. Some of the pages even had little tiny drawings, they weren't anything special but they weren't bad either.
 
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"It's not a big deal. It's not the first time I've done something over the top in the name of threatening people." Her smile was unnerving, but it wasn't unkind. Her journal was very neat, with people being separated into perfectly measures sections. Arrows pointed to sentences as she revised and made addendums to assumptions she'd made about people. Honestly, the notes weren't very objective--often containing insults and onomatopoeia in lieu of proper descriptions, but they were extensive indeed.

She looked over at his notes and found them to be a bit more on the informative side of things. Objective. They were good notes.

"Say, why do you take notes on people?" She asks, removing her glasses to clean them before placing the round lenses back on her nose. "I do it because I think it'll help my powers, but how about you? Does taking notes on people help with Hemomancy?"
 
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Joseph just stared at Melanie for a good thirty seconds before even looking down into her notebook. She looked human to him but he knew something was up, she was so weird and a normal person probably couldn't have done what she had just did with the bench."What...... are you" he whispered under his breath before acually looking down at her notes.

Wow he thought, they were really easy to read and full of information. Although most of the stuff that was there he had already wrote down, still Joseph was very impressed. Sure his notes were more on the messy side and he thought he had more but hers were so neat and easy to read, maybe i can ask her for pointers he thought, the girl seemed to know what she was doing.

"Oh.... umm.... well i honestly.... don't know..... when i first got here i had no friends so i started to take notes on people and the stuff i saw. It was weirdly enjoyable........ it also helps to know what you're going up against if anything bad happens. But no it doesn't help with my powers.... but the odd time i come across books that kinda help me with it i guess".
 
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Melanie thought she heard him ask her something, but since he said it so quietly, she didn't respond. She only smiled as she turned the pages of her book looking a neat little diagrams of people down to the style of clothes they liked to wear and what that said about them as people.

She smiled. "I like to do it because it helps me understand people. I'm not too good with people. All my classmates think I'm creepy."

'That doesn't bother me though.'
 
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She was crazy, crazy smart Joseph thought to him self. She was probably just playing him or something though she did seem genuine and kind enough. But there was just something about her that didn't quite click right with him, maybe it was the fact that she had just jumped on the bench and acted crazy."Hmm...... what are your powers even" he questioned.

When she spoke about how her classmates talked and why she wrote stuff down his eyes widened. She was exactly like him, everything was the same, almost everything at least."Oh my god they call me creep too and its so stupid they have no idea what i do with my notes.......".
 
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Melanie flipped through her notes with a small smile, turning to look at him when he asked what her power was. "Oh, my mother is a nightmare, and my father is a warlock." She kicked a pebble away from her foot. Or was it a splinter of wood? She wasn't really sure. "I don't know how my powers will work just yet, but they say that is has to do with fear and magic. Which sounds cool to me.

"You too huh?" She said with a smile. "Yeah, I thought so. People get so upset about it, even when I tell them that I'm taking notes for personal reasons. They demand to see the notes, or demand that I tell them when I'm watching, but you can't do that, right? If you tell them, then they'll start acting different, and then everything is ruined, you know?"
 
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"Wow...... your parents sound really cool..... but how can.... someone.... make children with a nightmare? Isn't a nightmare something that goes on in your mind?" he questioned. He knew the question was sort of rude but he was really curious as to how this kind of stuff worked, he chuckled before he spoke again."Fear..... thats sounds awesome.... sometimes i want people to fear me..... but they call me cute.... i'm not cute i'm dangerous...." he looked to the side for a moment."Though its not that bad.... i have some really good friends.... and you don't seem so bad your self....".

"Ugh..... tell me about it. Sometimes i wonder how it would play out if i didn't have my powers..... they would probably try to take my notes and probably destroy them some how too..... some people..... just need to leave us be. Its not like we are plotting to destroy the world or something...." he said and rolled his eyes.
 
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Melanie shrugged and pushed her hair back behind her ear. Really, she didn't really understand it completely either. Her mother kind of explained it as being the creature from which nightmares came, and as such, they were named after their powers, in the same way that some cultures referred to Vampires as Bloodsuckers--a case of the the creature being named after what it actually did.

"I think it's just a name for the aesthetic, really. I mean, nightmare is a cool name, isn't it? And my mom, she says that nightmares can't usually take a real form, but she did because humans were so funny, she said."

She nodded and her weight on one of her hands. "Adults never make sense. When you're in a public space, your actions aren't private. Everyone is watching you, not just us."

Melanie just rolled her eyes. "People are so silly."
 
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So was her mother was some kind of person that was related to darkness or magic retaliated to darkness and fear. Joe had read a little about this type of magic but he wasn't a hundred precent sure that he knew what Melanie was talking about but he knew one thing and that it sounded pretty cool as she said."Yea...... nightmare does sound really cool and it makes sense too....... because nightmares are things that scare people.... and you have fear stuff so it makes sense".

"Yeah....... adults are so weird...... when me and my best friend hang out we usually talk about how weird they are...... with all that touching and they lash out at you for no reason at all. They get mad over nothing all the time...... sometimes i just wanna..... ugh.... punch them really really hard.... hurt them badly..." he said clearly getting a tad bit heated.
 
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