Sharks (Lucia)

[reina watanabe nakamura]

August 10, 2027

It had been a few days since Reina and her parents had moved to their temporary home—actually a small two-bedroom flat—in a place called Diagon Alley in the heart of magical London. The cramped flat was a far cry from their house in Iquitos, and Reina already missed being in the rainforest. She knew that being in such a large city would be different, but she hadn't expected it to be so different from what she was familiar with in Peru or even in Brazil at Castelobruxo.

The one upside to the whole situation was that Reina didn't have to worry about leaving the immediate area for anything, and her parents trusted her enough that they were fine with allowing her to go explore Diagon Alley on her own. She was in a completely magical area, so that also made things easier. While Reina didn't have any plans to buy her school supplies while out on her own, she at least wanted to get a better idea of what was around to keep her busy until she left to board at the McGonagall Academy for Gifted Illusionary Children (also known as MAGIC).

Despite its name, Diagon Alley was larger than Reina expected, and she wound up getting turned around once the sun had set. Carrying a bag of books she'd purchased earlier, she decided to stop into one of the stores that was still clearly open in order to ask for directions. No sooner had she opened the door than multiple heads turned to look at her. The door that she had opened, she realized, led to some sort of clinic, and the people who had turned to look at her all had red eyes.

Vampires. They were vampires.

Quickly, Reina backed up, allowing the door to slam shut again. Had she found herself somewhere she shouldn't have been? She needed to find her way back to her flat as quickly as possible.

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Hanging out in the lobby of Ripam de Sanguinem happened more often than not, mostly because there was an infinite amount of blood pops she could eat and no one to tell her otherwise. Her parents might if they saw her, but her Nonna definitely wasn’t going to go telling on her. Currently, Lucia had a blood pop shoved into the side of her mouth and she was watching the cavalcade of full vampires coming in to get their breakfast for the day. She always found it funny how meal times were switched around because of their nocturnal lifestyles, and having them eating breakfast whilst she was usually on dinner (or dessert in today’s instance). There wasn’t much need for blood as a quarter-vampire, though it definitely scratched a primal itch that normal people simply wouldn’t get. During her times sitting in the lobby she had managed to meet other young part-vampires like herself. Swapping stories definitely told her that she wasn’t weird for getting random cravings every so often. They were infinitely more controllable than what she had seen full vampires have to deal with though. Some of the older, ancient ones still had a lot of baggage that she knew wasn’t something that would just disappear with the snap of a finger. Still, she enjoyed observing and seeing where she came from. Especially when blood pops were involved.

The early evening was fairly normal, in comparison to all the other times she had done this, up until there was some sort of commotion near the front entrance. Whispers immediately followed, and curious about what had happened, Lucia slid off of her seat and headed towards the door. She didn’t even need to ask, because their voices carried loud enough for her to gather that a young girl had stepped inside accidentally. Making a face at the bad luck the poor girl had, Lucia pushed her way through the small crowd and out into the street. Said girl hadn’t made it far, as she was still standing there. “You okay?” Lucia asked as she pulled the blood pop out of her mouth to speak. “You probably scared them more than you think. Vampires are pretty private people.”

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[reina watanabe nakamura]

August 10, 2027

The last thing Reina expected to see after she stepped out of the building full of vampires into which she had just walked was anyone her own age, but a redheaded teenage girl emerged with a lollipop in her mouth. She was acting very casual for someone who had been surrounded by vampires only moments before, Reina thought, because she certainly couldn't say the same for herself.

"You okay?" The redhead pulled the lollipop out of her mouth as she began to talk to her. "You probably scared them more than you think. Vampires are pretty private people."

"Yeah…" Reina answered, a slight accent audible as she replied. She knew that she was fine physically; she hadn't been bitten by any of the vampires she'd encountered. Mentally, she was a little shaken up. Still, she wasn't sure that she believed that she had been the one to scare the vampires instead of the reverse. She probably smelled like fresh blood to them. There was no way she would be frightening.

All she had wanted was to ask for directions, and she hadn't even managed that. She could ask the other girl for directions, though, couldn't she?

"Er…" There was no way that she wasn't going to sound awkward by that point, which didn't make asking for directions any easier. "How do I get to Diagon Alley?"

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