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un:BtchCrft- Meet a Wild Maggie- Video OTA

[ The screen pops to life and on the screen is a woman with long firey red hair. There is a smile on her face and she waves lightly.]

Well, it looks like we have some old and new faces around here this time. Now that everyone has had a little time to settle in for this mega fun ride we are all on together I thought I should say hello and introduce myself.

Hi~ I'm Maggie.

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I am really glad to hear you are settling in well enough. I don't require thanks, I just want people to have an easier time, but I will not say no to dinner. I am still cleaning and setting things back up in the shop so I am pretty free.

Well, it's appreciated nonetheless and I wouldn't mind a tour guide for an evening. I've been exploring on my own but it's not quite the same.

What kind of shop, if I might ask?

You're just too kind.I will do my best to be the best tour guide...that one can get in these boots.

Ah, tattoo shop. I know shocking.

They're very good boots, and I have faith in your tour guide abilities. Who knows, maybe we can find something new and different for both of us...it was always one of the benefits of travel for me.

[He chuckles quietly.]

Not a surprise, no, but if it's something you enjoy, so much the better.

They are good boots! You're right, I still haven't explored everything to find anything new. Perhaps a challenge!

I do enjoy it, quite a bit. What has the City got you doing for work? I hope something you also enjoy?

Well, it's something I'm good at, which helps. I'm working security at one of the nicer hotels in Leisurebrook. So far it suits me well enough, I think, and it means a steady paycheck. So I think I'm comfortable there, even with some overnight shifts.

I worked private security for a long time and this is actually less demanding.

[ She gave him an eye brow wiggle]

You for sure have the body for it. I bet you look sexy as hell in a uniform too.

[Excuse him because that hits exactly at tge weak spot in his overall composure. Color touches his pale cheeks and he coughs, though there's a little bit of a smile there too.]

So I've been told, though I think I carry a suit fairly well, too. I'm very used to "professional". It's stepping outside of that, that I struggle with a bit.

[thus, the perpetual state of looking something like a college professor on his day off.]

[ Okay, that was just so adorable, she couldn't help but to smile and laugh quietly.]

I can see it. You are built well to look good in that stuff. I mean, I could help with casual dressing if you wanted too? Not that I am a fashionista or anything.

It takes a bit of work, but I'm glad to hear it's worth the effort.

[He smiles briefly, then goes somber for a moment.]

I have some...fairly upsetting scars, unfortunately, it makes casual choices something of a challenge.

[There's something sadly apologetic about his expression, then, as if he's sorry to disappoint her.]

[ Some people didn't mind the scars that were on their skin, reminders of that time they fell out of a tree playing with friends, or tried to jump a creek on a bike when they were 10. Or even where they've been, and what they were able to grow past. Not everyone though.]

It might not mean very much to you right now, but I think you need to hear it. No matter what scars you have, or where you've been before. it is part of you. And really? I think you're beautiful as you are. However...I can take some of the scaring away if you ever wanted that, but you should make that choice for you and not because of what others might think.

[There's a lot in his life that Jaeger hasn't quite come to terms with yet. Maybe he can start now, now that things are steady, stable, and he can breathe, but it's not going to be an easy path.

He switches the feed to private before he speaks again.]

Even magical healing can't do much for these, I'm afraid. But I appreciate the offer. And the kind words.

It's been several years but things haven't really allowed much time for acceptance. Or anything but surviving, honestly. That might change here, I don't know, but I'm doing the best I can.

[ Coming to terms with things in ones life was often the hardest part of learning to live with them. The path is never easy,and often comes with a ton of stumbling blocks, Maggie knows this quite well. She gave him a bitter sweet smile, it must have been hard whatever he went through. Maybe someday she'd get the story from him.]

Sometimes surviving is the bravest thing we can do in a given situation. I believe in you though, I think if you give yourself some time it will get easier.

Even if I can't help with the physical scars, I can with the ones that can't be seen and I want you to know I am here for you through your journey.

[Someday, maybe, he'll tell her, or at least see the nightmare that Jordan and Claudia had wrought. For right now, though, the thought leaves him feeling vulnerable, naked in a way he rarely is, and it's not a comfortable feeling no matter how kind she's been.]

Thank you. Sometime, maybe, I'll tell you more but the details aren't very kind. I'm still coming to terms with a lot of it, and it's been six years.

Maybe this place will be better for me, I don't know. But being able to just stop and breathe...that's been something. Even if it comes with its own problems.

[ Trauma can do that to a person. She knows that it will take time, she'd never pry and make things worse on that front. Not unless it was the difference between life and death.]

When you're ready, if you're ready. No thanks needed really.

It could be, not everything here is nice either but...it's not all bad either. I am glad that you have been able to get a little break from things, you sounded like you really could use it.

I suppose it speaks volumes that this place seems to be an improvement, all told.

I'm wary still, because I know there's...complications here, but I'm appreciating what time I have that I can decompress, now that I'm used to the idea.

As used to it as anyone can be, at least.

How have you been settling back in? Besides the shop?

[ She gave a small nod]

It does, but one mans trash is another's treasure. Taking it in while you can is pretty much all you can do. Breath while you can.

It's a bit like riding a bike, once you get back on and get yourself used to the seat and how it works again, you're okay.

I take what I can get, under the circumstances. I won't fool myself into thinking it's idyllic, but it's better than where I cane from for the time being so...one day at a time.

I'm glad you're getting your footing again. I think it still amazes me how normal it can all feel once you find the routine. A job, a place to live, deciding where to get coffee or eat dinner.

[ Maggie gives him a smile]

A wise man. My original home wasn't a very nice place either, so I get where you are coming from.

That's kind of what it's all about here, finding your place and setting your way of life here.

I already like you a lot, so I really do hope that you can find some solace here.

If I'm going to be here, I can make the best of it. I'm used to adapting and I suppose I'm lucky in that way...that I'm used to some very strange things.

[He smiles a little, though Maggie might want to hold off on thinking too highly of him. In his opinion, at least, but...it's still charmimg.]

You'll have to tell me about where you're from, sometime. I have to admit, the existence of other worlds is pretty new to me...I'm still getting my head around the idea.

There ya go. I knew you would be okay if given time.

[ She looked a bit away from the camera.]

Originally? Or before I was here? Different places entirely, and one is easier to talk about than the other. But....there is a big big universe out there. We will probably never know or understand all of it, or all of the possibilities that are out there.

I do my best, even if "okay" can be very relative at times.

And the idea of other worlds...that may take me some time. There's enough strange and, honestly, rather terrifying in my own world. We have things that we think come from "other" places, but no one's every really sure. The concepts are there, but we can only guess.

So...you've been to other worlds like this, besides your own?

Okay, is always retaliative.

Other worlds and such, I think I was more accepting of that kind of thing because I spent my whole childhood hoping that something else was out there other than what I had.

Two others.

[ Spoken with a nod of her head.]

[It's his turn to nod, looking thoughtful as he takes that in.]

This has been a learning experience. I was raised with a very clear awareness of the world around me, and truthfully I've always been more focused on that than speculation. The immediate, the concrete.

So we're either of those places much like this one? The world I'm from, the one I know, has some similarities, but also a great deal of differences.

[ She looked thoughtful a moment before speaking again]

I think when we are uprooted from what we know as normal, it should be a learning experiance from anyone. If you aren't learning then you aren't trying to adapt to things.

One was paradise, large beautiful gardens and the whole shebang. The other...

[ She paused a little bit of a bitter sweet smile on her face]

I had a family of my own. Very different from this one we are in now, but they weren't with out their own issues too.

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