august 7th, 2024		wednesday, afternoon
wc: 300ish		zyair ona'je - uagadou
interacting with: Sabrina Ortega | @Sage Willows		mentioning: scout fu-hai

Zyair has known his entire life he that, while he has no issue interacting with people, it wasn't something he actively sought out. Of course, he never thought such a thing was a waste of time but... there was nobody he had ever met that he thought was worth the task of seeking out, talking to, upkeeping a relationship with. That was until he met Scout. It wasn't correct to say that she was the only person, but she was one of the only people he had felt such a way about. Though he couldn't put his finger on it directly, he knew she was completely different.

"Pardon me, miss."

He hadn't even spotted the girl he had almost stepped on, so lost in thought. "Are you alright?" He asked, finally getting himself more into a frame of mind that wasn't surrounded by that red-headed girl. "Pardon my behavior, I wasn't paying attention. I'm not usually like this." Zyair found himself mumbling a random excuse. Maybe he had convinced himself of a temporary rid of Scout, but it wasn't permanent, that was for sure.

"May I have your name? Let me make it up to you." He took a chance in pursuing distraction, offering his hand to the girl. "Let me get you some ice-cream as an apology." Ice-cream was always a good thing, right? He hadn't ever met someone who didn't like the sweet treat besides himself. Sweet things weren't exactly his favorite, but he didn't mind gelato. Speaking of gelato... there were probably some Italian students at the summer camp, maybe they'd have some to accommodate them.

"Did I introduce myself?" It wasn't polite to offer to take someone somewhere if they didn't know their name. "Zyair, a student at Uagadou."

Role playing as Sabrina Ortega from Castelobruxo

the fearful should always be feared

English • Spanish

@Scout Fu-Hai as Zyair Ona'je

August 7th, Wednesday, afternoon

all Sabrina's actions/thoughts are in character

"Make sure to write down what happens for me," was what Sabrina's older sister Catrina had told her before she left for camp. For the most part, she had lived up to that promise. But camp had been practically the most boring and terrible thing Sabrina had ever experienced in her life. One of the only things keeping her there was the fact she could go out in the empty areas and write notes to her family. Plus, she had never run into people when she did that.

That was, she hadn't until August 7th.

It was sometime in the afternoon. Like always, Sabrina didn't care for whatever activities were going on. So she grabbed her journal filled with her pessimistic comments and ran all the way to the place where she liked to sit.

While she was busy writing the note to her mamá about the horrible food- which actually wasn't that bad- some kid appeared out of nowhere and nearly stepped on her.

"Ay, dios mio," oh my god she yelled. "Idiota, ¿estás ciego? ¡Claramente estoy sentado aquí!" Idiot, are you blind? I'm clearly sitting here!

Sabrina was fuming. But the kid apologized, the politest person Sabrina had ever come across. She sat there, arms crossed and brow furrowed, while trying not to focus on how undeniably attractive she found him. He looked exactly like the boys her sister would call hermoso gorgeous. And right then, Sabrina wasn't disagreeing.

"Uh... Sabrina." She silently cursed herself for how heavy her accent was in those two words. She cleared her throat and tried again, "I'm Sabrina. I'm fine, don't worry."

When he held out his hand to her, offering her ice cream, she honestly forgot what to do. So she, in total embarrassment, shook his hand like you would normally do back home. She quickly dropped his hand and her cheeks flushed. She leaped to her feet and her voice shook a bit as she tried to ignore her mistake.

"Ice cream sounds great, especially in this heat."

Zyair was the boy's name. And he was from Uagadou, the school way over in Africa.

"I'm from Castelobruxo. Seems it might be hard for us to see each other again after camp." Wait- why was she talking about that? They'd only just met!

Sometimes Sabrina hated being a bit of a delusional teenager girl.

august 7th, 2024		wednesday, afternoon
wc: 350ish		zyair ona'je - uagadou
interacting with: Sabrina Ortega | @Sage Willows		mentioning: Casey | @Emily Shephard & Ariam | @Aston Beckett

Though he did not speak Spanish, Zyair didn't have to be a genius to know that the girl was probably berating him in it. "Haha..." he nervously chuckled at her words, internally cringing. Ah, at least he hadn't weirded her out! That might only be a little bit better than accidentally stepping on her, but it was still better!

"Sabrina, that's a lovely name." 'S' names were the easiest on his tongue, they seemed to mesh well with the French language. Though he had a tendency to overexaggerate the syllable when he was speaking in Swahili, luckily that wasn't an issue here, was it? "And you're from Castelobruxo?" That's where Ariam was from! Maybe the two knew each other, even though Ariam never mentioned such a girl in their letters, there was a chance it just never came into the conversation. What was that girl he had mentioned, the one they were sharing a tent with? Hm.

He only smiled at the handshake, the good thing about offering your hand to someone is that whether or not they accept it, you can smile kindly and move on. Either it was his mother or Eba that had taught him such an art, he could attribute it to both. The way his mother offered her hand was far more refined than Eba's, but Eba had a softer smile and a warmer laugh when hands clashed together.

"Oh?" Zyair asks, glancing over at Sabrina. "You have interest in keeping in contact?" That was a first! Well- second, technically. He had told Scout she could reach out to him if she ever felt the need, but this was different. Someone else was showing interest in him. Him and Casey had ended on positive terms, but Zyair knew good and well there was no hope in thinking that Casey would try to reach out. "It shouldn't be too difficult. Owls are geniuses, are they not?"

Another thought crossed his mind, "There are infinite balls and dances held at Hogwarts that our schools are invited to, I'm sure we could meet again at one of those."

Roleplaying as Sabrina Ortega from Castelobruxo

the fearful should always be feared

English • Spanish

@Scout Fu-Hai as Zyair Ona'je

August 7th, Wednesday, afternoon

Lovely name. That was different. She'd never been told that she had a lovely name by anyone, let alone a cute boy. The definition of her name didn't match her one bit, but suddenly she loved her name more than she ever had in her life.

"Oh, thanks! Your's- your name is lovely, too. Yeah, Castelobruxo. The land of intense heat and kids that mostly speak Portuguese. You're from Uagadou, you said? What's that like?"

She picked up her journal off the ground. She'd have to write about her encounter with Zyair later. Once she was somewhere where no one would joke about the pessimistic angry Bolivian girl having a crush.

"They are. I remember the first time an owl came with a letter for my papá. Scared my brother out of his wits! Mamá keeps thinking he'll be like her, getting scared by owls and all that. Do you have any siblings?" God, why was she so chatty?

Sabrina was never like this. Never. She and Zyair weren't even that similar! He was polite and well mannered. She, well, wasn't.

"So," she said, pointing in the direction of wherever the food was served, "how about getting that ice cream, you and me?"

She turned and started off to find something cold to eat. She glanced over her shoulder to make sure Zyair was following her. "Come on!"

august 7th, 2024		wednesday, afternoon
wc: 350ish		zyair ona'je - uagadou
interacting with: Sabrina Ortega | @Sage Willows		mentioning: Ariam | @Aston Beckett

"Is the heat that bad?" Zyair tilts his head. "I have a friend that attends your school, he never mentioned it being quite that miserable." He took a second to rack his brain, wondering if the topic of conversation had ever crossed between him and Ariam when they sent owls to one another. "Uagadou is also warm, but I'm from the coast and live in the city, so I'm used to it." He wished he wasn't, the summers were long and humid.

He liked Sabrina's voice, it was a little rash but soothing nonetheless. It was unlike the rest of his family, all of which had silky voices. Well, maybe not the twins but he figured they'd pick up the same speech patterns he shared with his mother and with Eba. Or maybe they'd learn from outside influences, maybe they would sound like Sabrina or Scout.

"Yes, three sisters." His smile is kind as they begin walking. "An older one and two twins, who are both four." The twins... even thinking about them made Zyair lose a bit of breath. He had no idea what time it was back home, but he had the smallest suspicion that they were probably awake and causing havoc, as per usual. "My older sister lives here actually. She moved a few years ago." His conversing skills come naturally, and are just as mindless as him. "And you have a brother? What's he like?"

Zyair's favorite thing when talking to people is to continuously push the questions back onto them, minimizing the time he has to spend talking. He's always been a better listener, anyway. It's more fun to let people talk about their family or their deepest darkest secret, even when they're not aware of it. If he were ever into videogames, he'd be the kind of player to listen to the villain's long-winded monologue every single time.

"Do you have a preferred ice-cream flavor? You're awfully sweet, so maybe chocolate?" Wasn't every flavor of ice-cream sweet, though? Huh, maybe it was better to not think about the holes in his sentence.

Roleplaying as Sabrina Ortega from Castelobruxo

the fearful should always be feared

English • Spanish

@Scout Fu-Hai as Zyair Ona'je

August 7th, Wednesday, afternoon

Sabrina considered herself a decently observant person. But now as she was walking alongside Zyair, she found herself more absorbed in what he was saying than she'd ever felt.

"Well, I don't do well with most climates so maybe I'm not the best person to be asking," she joked. "But being so near the equator it can get pretty hot."

She coughed. "Three?!" she repeated. "That sounds awful! How do you deal with that?" If Sabrina had three siblings, which soon she would have four, she would willingly go to Hogwarts events to get herself out of the chaos.

"Yeah, Luis. He's," she paused to count on her fingers, "nine now. He's a good kid for the most part. My parents are homeschooling him for now in case he ends up being a wizard like my dad. I doubt he'll be one though; he's much more like mamá. I've got an older sister too, Catrina. She's sixteen, a muggle. And my mamá is pregnant right now. Twins. I guess we'll both have big families soon."

She picked at her nails, her nervous habit. She was nowhere close to being excited about having four siblings. But the idea that Catrina would be an adult soon, Luis would probably start Muggle school, and the twins would be starting life was scary to her. Did she really have that little time left with Catrina? And Luis? Would he end up just like the muggle boys she'd get into fights with before she started at Castelobruxo? She had no idea what she'd think about the twins. Mamá and Papá would probably have to spend most of their time with them, especially since there would be two babies. Was she ready for that?

She perked up when Zyair told her she was sweet. He was under no right to be that wonderful to her.

"Catrina va a estar viviendo para este drama cuando regrese..."Catrina is going to be living for this drama when I get back... she mumbled in Spanish. "Oh! Um... well normally I get a passion fruit flavor- they're sold a lot back home- but chocolate sounds good too..."

august 7th, 2024		wednesday, afternoon
wc: 342		zyair ona'je - uagadou
interacting with: Sabrina Ortega | @Sage Willows		mentioning: meow meow

"Haha, I get that response a lot!" Being the only boy in a house full of girls- that was kind of the only response he got. Well, that and 'so you're the man of the house?', an expectation he wasn't exactly fond of. It wasn't exactly false, but he was just about thirteen, how much of a 'man' could he really be? If anything, Eba was closer to that ideology than Zyair. "I'm just a fulltime babysitter, parttime big brother if anything." His mother often bragged about how good of a big brother he was, but he felt more like a young parent than a brother.

"Oh wow, twins? If they grow to be anything like my baby sisters, they'll definitely be a handful. I sometimes wonder what it'd be like to have a twin sibling. Apparently there are some twins that are so close they can practically feel each other's emotions and pain."

To be so close to someone that they're an extension of yourself- what an intriguing thought. There hadn't been someone Zyair would say he's so close to that he felt like they were part of himself. Not even really his sisters or his mother, although sometimes he wonders if the way he feels could've been like how his dad felt when he was growing up. Resting on that thought for longer than necessary wasn't going to be helpful. Sometimes he liked to wonder.

"Mm, passionfruit? I don't think I've ever had that before, actually. I'm not the biggest fruit person," well, that was only half-true. If his mother would ever come home from the farmers market with a bag of fresh fruit, it was often that by the time Zyair got back home from hanging out with his friends, the only thing left would be broccoli. Not that he minded, he found the sweetness of berries to often be too overwhelming. "I should try, shouldn't I?"

If Sabrina suggested something else, he'd probably just go with whatever she said. He was always lackluster with the idea of choice.

Role playing as Sabrina Ortega from Castelobruxo

the fearful should always be feared

English • Spanish

@Scout Fu-Hai as Zyair Ona'je

August 7th, Wednesday, afternoon

all Sabrina's actions/thoughts are in character

Sabrina felt like skipping. Skipping. Maybe it was just to balance out the butterflies in her stomach, or maybe Zyair had some sort of crush anxiety spell on her. Either way, she wasn't opposed to the feeling.

"I hope baby-sitting responsibilities don't fall on me. They'd probably go to my older sister since she doesn't go to boarding school. Plus my brother is too young to be looking after little kids."

Learning Zyair had twin sister helped her calm down about the idea of her own. The idea of being a twin wasn't that appealing to Sabrina though. Being so close to someone was a nice thought, but she loved her alone time.

She couldn't imagine having a built in best friend. She didn't even have a normal best friend let alone a sibling one.

"Yes, passion fruit! It's very popular in Bolivia. My sister and I sometimes walk into town and get it during the summer when it is hot. If they have it, you should try it!"

The idea of sharing the taste of home with a boy who lived so far away felt like something from
a movie. Her mamá had shown her some adorable love movies, was this her own real life version of one?

When they reached their location, Sabrina turned to Zyair and asked, "What'll you be having?"