Un café l'addition.

Even though she made some room for her, she told her that she didnt have to tell her if she didnt want to, and by what she said she had a fairly good idea of what happened to her...For a split second she thinks she should take this advice...Her wounds have not healed at all afterall...It wasnt wise to dig too much into them right now. She took a deep breath and decided to trust Hazel for now and sat next to her on the bed, although she didnt lay but remained seated...Looking right in front of her.

"I'm only going to say as much as I can...It's...It happened over the course of barely 2 months, and it's barely a week old. For all that I know it's going to follow me there and..."

She took a deep breath. Not was not the time.

"...I joined high school for the first time 2 months ago. From the first day in, I got bullied. I had a couple of friends there, but they were far too concerned about what the other students would think about them if they intervened than actually taking my defense. Something...Horrible happened to me on the first day of school something..."

She paused for a second, her gaze losing itself in her thought before she snapped out of it.

"...I think I dont need to elaborate it. All that there is usefull to know was that it broke my spirit and my heart...The only friend I made on that day died...She was murdered and her body was found in a pool. There was no magic involved yet...But I was already broken thanks to what happened that night...Those who tried to call themselves my friend...They finally went to take me out on a trip after I barricaded in my room for an entire week...That's on the trip that we were face to face with the first creature...It was hideous and strong...Too strong for us. We ran away but I snapped a picture of it first...I...Was willing to do anything so I wouldnt have to think about me...And the perspective of finding a solace by studying the supernatural was everything I could do at the time...But the monster came back to recover the picture I took from it...He even kidnapped other kids of my school that saw him...So we had to go after it...To save them..."

She sighed and held her head...

"We walked straight into a trap...No one wanted to go, but I wanted to. I wanted to find magic...I wanted to see it was real...So maybe...Maybe it could take me away from my life..."

She started sobbing softly

"If only I knew...If only I knew..."

Agatha let out a couple of hiccups but calmed down quite quickly. Her eyes looked bitter and and she was frowning. She was swallowing her regrets and went back to her usual apathy. She gave a weak smile when Hazel patted her on the back as she finally replied.

"Thanks...But this is not even close to the parts that made me like this...However I think...I think that's how far I'll go for now...I'm sorry."

She hunched herself again, her eyes lost in her thoughts before adding.

"I dont know if I mentionned it to you, but I am capable of photographic memory. Every instant, everything I see is catalogued in my head forever, and I will always remember it."

She joined her hands and looked at her feets.

"And this gift sure is a curse, when all I can remember is the bad times. Over, and over, and over...There are no ends to those terrible memories...And I can never forget them."

Agatha shook her head when she said she could erase her memory. She seemed to have given some thought about it as well

"No you're right. It never solved anything to supress memories, only to commit the same mistakes over and over again. But I wish I could destroy the images I have associated with those memories. Like some just remembered "getting to work on monday", without remembering all the excruciating details...It's fine anyway Hazel...I wouldnt have wanted you to pay for it...The truth is, I had the opportunity to forget but I choosed not to take it. There is a reason those who try to forget whatever is painfull to them end up always confronting those memories later."

Hazel mentionning getting to cooking made her snap out of it though, it took a couple of seconds prior to this moment, but she finally regained her composure.

"Of course, I'm going to take care of it right now."

She got up and said

"Do you...Do you need a hand getting up ?"

She didnt know if she wanted to do it herself or use her magic, either way if she replied positively she would. In both case she would head down to the kitchen to make some tea.

Agatha blinked a bit, but smiled. She may not be much taller than Hazel, but she was bulkier thanks to her weight.

"Oh no, I definitively think I could carry you down if needed. I just...Well it's not really something I'd do without thinking, it's kind of disrespectfull if you dont ask for it first. But if you feel like it, I can carry you down."

She offered her shoulder and her arm to Hazel and walked her to the stairs. Something had been bothering her for a while now, but she couldnt quite put her finger on it...As they reached the first steps down it finally hit her.

"Say, tell me if I'm wrong but, your power makes you able to create very complex and moving ice figures right? I mean, the owl was impressive, it could really fly and behaved like a normal owl, so you can also bend the shapes of the ice to make them look like real live creatures am I right ? Is that within your powers?"

Her ways of asking questions were carracteristic of a bookworm

Agatha nodded and hopped Hazel in her arms as delicately as she could before climbing up the stairs. She didnt do it effortlessly, though she hardly broke a sweat doing so. One of her hand secured her shoulder against her chest and the other holding her by the waist.

"Oh, it doesnt matter that they are not alive, what's important is that they're life like. I mean, your owl seems to have no problem flying, wich mean it can reproduce to near perfection every single movement of it's muscles that produce the effect of flying. That's rather impressive when you think about it."

She was taking magic from a very practicall, very scientific viewpoint. Once they were up the stairs she gently helped Hazel on her feet again and helped her walk to wherever she liked to go.

"What I mean by that is, provided you can create any shape you want and animate it in such a complex fashion...Why dont you create a leg made of ice to replace your missing leg ? Surely, animating such a simple joint compared to the incredibly complex flight of an owl would be a synch for you. You wouldnt need a prosthetic leg anymore and this leg of ice would behave like a completly normal leg on it's own. This way you could train both of your limbs without need for external help and wouldnt have to worry about losing your good leg, or limping ever again. Heck you could even run. In fact it would be better than anything you could get."