Owner	Pose
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul enters over with a -SWOOMSH- over from the front door, looking mildly peeved over as she does so with her hair all in a tiff, irritation radiating off her. "I don't know -what- the hell that lunatic with the scarf was doing out of that ridiculous blue emergency box in the middle of the street. It made the worst traffic jam." Right before it disappeared and set things on fire. Including bits of her hair and her outfit. And none of said lunatic to be seen to start to stab on.
Charlie Gage	Well, through the front door, looking peeved, and then up the steps to the practice spaces really to find someone to vent about it to.     Charlie is caught mid-setting up a ritual circle, a big stick of silvery chalk, almost looks like white with glitter in one hand as she is slapping down a rune on the outside of her circle. She looks up and blinks a few times. The irritation Talia is feeling is clear, even to someone who is so far from being a great Bat Detective it is obvious.     "uh... a guy with a scard and an emergency box in the road." she blinks slowly there. "What is an emergency box... and uh.. is your coat smoldering Talia?" concern.
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would shake her head over and glance at it, "Oh, yes, it is." She goes to take a few moments to whap her hand over at it, some sparks going down over to try and put it out, succeeding for the most part. Her hair is, however, still going.     "In the days before cell service or guarantee of phone access, various rural areas would have public emergency booths. You could go into them to signal for help and get direct access to constabulary services. It's never been that common, particularly as most of the world has land line access. I have no clue what some idiot was doing wiht one in the middle of a city street."
Charlie Gage	The thwapping of the coat makes her realize the hair. "Oh geezus your hair!" she squeeks and brings her hands up and around, finger tutting her way through a spell she has learned and practiced a hell of a lot.     You see. Charlie's element is FIRE. She has extremely explosive results with it due to the chaos magic. I mean to be fair she has explosive results due to the fact she bleeds chaos magic almost all the time, even when it isn't fire. Fire though is Tied to Ruby. Ruby is her house even if she has no clue of this. Which means fire go BOOM with the girl.     Which is why she has spent so much time learning a water spell in case she can't get to a fire extinguisher. Which she slams her hands through with pure muscle memory and mutters in the language of the Fey <Aqua>     Which is about when a buckets worth of water hits Talia as she is explaining the whole what an emergency box is.
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would go to hold her hands up and over to the side and lets out a low grumble over as the water goes to dump and deposit over on her. "This could have been done in a subtler way, Charlie. But I suppose there's no salvaging the outfit." Even as she's soaked from skin to bone and not phased by it.     "And do get me a towel quickly if you can? If not I'll just go to a corner to make sure I'm not making a mess over the floor. I hope that your.. Studies have been going well. And that you've been keeping up over on your situational awareness." Steal a utility belt off someone once..
Charlie Gage	On one hand Charlie is relieved Talia isn't literally on fire. On the other hand she is a little nervous about dumping a bunch of cold water on her. "Oh..right towels..." she knows where those are. They are conventiently part of this floors inventory because gods only knows what kind of practice, workouts, or other thjings Justice LEague Dark may be up to in this space.     The teenager scampers to grab an armful and then after offering two to Talia and crouches down and starts to mop up the water from the floor.     She could theoritically use magic to evaporate it, but that would probably literally just light the room on fire with her bloods chaos.     "I am sure trying... I was about to seal myself in and try to tap the leyline and work on some studies of the more mystical beat. I have been considering doing a birds eye spell.. or maybe a danger sense spell. Though it seems like it might be a crutch."
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would muse over then, "Those such things can be a crutch.." She would go to take the towel to start ot use it to rub over her hair and the bits dripping with water. "Particularly if you're in a situation where you can't utilize it. If you siwtch in and out of using it, it messes with muscle memory and reactions. It only serves to slow you down. And you have to train to use it as well. Not just the magic.."     She would elaborate, "But how to react when using it. Understanding what sort of a danger is coming, and how to react to it. Most combat techniques involve reactions. So suddenly having a.. Moment's awareness of what's coming throws all of those acts of timing out the window. It makes things rather dangerous when one has combat training as every fight then feels wrong."     She would admit. "And.. I don't know much of magic, but would doing a ley line inside here be the best idea?"
Charlie Gage	"Which is why I was just thinking about it.. but not doing it.. was worried about the crutch. I figure unless it is naturally infused in me like my ability to bounce... it probably shouldn't be basic training right."     She grins looking up at you. "Like you said, like all the reasons you just listed. I am trying to learn." she kids. Then she looks down to keep toweling. "There is already a leyline going right through here. It is very minor though and I need to practice tapping them. I was just setting the circle up in case I lost control of my magic."     "So how did the emergency police box set you on fire and disappear?"
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would listen and smile, "Good girl. Just as you can do something and figure it out doesn't mean that it's going to be practical and useful. Some things you can do are of no benefit and just serve to mess you up all the more for doing them. Cause and effect." Her tone is rather pleased.     "And always best to take precautions. I'ms orry if I interrupted.>"     She would sigh, "Well, it was in the middle of the street, blocking traffic, and there was a great amount of.. Things on fire and whistling. There was some mad lunatic that I didn't get a look at beyond that ridiculous thing they wore before they went into the.. Call box and it then vanished as some things exploded. Then I was like this. And I don't want to know where all of the.. Whatever gunk that blocked up the roadway was either."
Charlie Gage	"Huh." she pops back up to her feet, grinning at the praise. Getting a good girl or any praise out of anyone in Gotham is hard, and she really does try for it. She doesn't want to be a disappointment to her family and all there. Or genuinely anyone.     "That sounds like meta or magic bullshit. Vanishing.... dimensional or teleporting I wonder." she is genuinely curious as she chews on the recounting.     "Also didn't wreck anything..." she dumps the towels in the hamper and heads over to pick up the chalk. She crouches and draws a couple more runes, starting to work around the circle. Talking as she works. "Well glad you didn't spontaniously combust or blow up too."
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would smile, "It's good to remember the law of unintended consequences. And to think about the consequences before one goes to do something. I presume magic can be somewhat similar to contracts and exchanges. One takes something, but one also gives something. So you have to look over the particulars.." She assumes, however. Magic is not something she is fluent in.     "I'd presume so. There was just a large flash of light and it was gone. It could have been a great many things. I don't particularly care so long as I never run into it again. And I'd much rather not do either of those." Personal experience?
Charlie Gage	Charlie moves over to do the last set of runes. "Magic is basically like that yes. Well order magic is. Like with Order magic you do not get anything for free. There is always a cost. Might be energy. Thermal dynamics. Time. Components. Spirit." she stands up and walks her circle checking it.     "Which is probably why it drives the people teaching me magic nuts that my chaos magic doesn't seem to have those costs. I mean they think it is probably doing something.... somewhere... or tapping something... but no one can put a finger on it. Like I can teleport anywhere like breathing and it should leave me exhausted but it doesn't not really. Only if I try way to hard to much to fast.. but order magic... it is like zoom unless you are tapping batteries just gone."     She seems satisfied now and then nods. She steps into the middle of it and then crouches suddenly and slams her palms with a smack into the floor. Nothing visibly happens, but mystically the circle comes up and domes all around her sealing her in it.
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would muse, "Yes, and while your magic doesn't necessarily follow those rules.. THe rules that it does follow tend to change from moment to moment. Which makes it rather difficult for you to learn how to use them and do so in a controlled manner. I'm sure that as frustrating as it is for everyone else.. That it's especially frustrating for you, to have these abilities that you're having a hard time with mastering no matter how hard you work." She would go to watch over as the girl would demonstrate.     Then go to sit back and watch the presentation over of the ward being done.. Admittedly having not much more to go on with her presumptions than 'order' and 'chaos' being used as terms.
Charlie Gage	"I mean, my main trick ... the bouncing I do and healing... shouldn't work I've been told. It does though reliably despite where ever my magic seems to come from. So that part isn't frustrating. When I try to use more.. uh orderly magic though things can get explosive... and that part. Super frustrating."     She studies the circle, making sure it looks very tight. "I didn't even think I was doing magic until Constantine and Zatanna clued in on it and were like.. uh magic no meta."     She starts to twist and twirl her hands in a dynamo gesture, like she is scooping up water from the ground beneath her. Like a water wheel motion with her hands paddling up into the air.     That is when Talia can see the circle, because blue energy that almost looks like fox fire starts to sluice up the inside of the dome.
Talia al Ghul	That name - Constantine.. Gets an instinctive twitch from Talia. If not by experience, then by reputation. Exaggerated or not. She would nod over at Charlie. "I do wonder if either of them are affiliated in this group?" Some sort of random query over.     "I'm not the person to ask for analysis. This sort of thing is beyond my ken.." There being so many different methods and styles of magic that it was nearly impossible for someone not of that world to have the slightest ability to keep track.     Then she goes to watch as the blue energy twists up and over and watches, silent. The expression over on her face that of someone being impressed, however.
Charlie Gage	Charlie isn't having to chant, she just keeps paddle pawing the air drawing the leyline up to coat the inside of her circle. She does have a look of concentration though, trying to breath very slowly and steady as she focuses.     She lets out a slow breath "Uh, it seems to be okay. Not sure how stable, but I was able to tap and draw from the line without it all blowing up." which is a good goal. It is still licking and swirling all around her coloring her in it's light.     "Zee is around yeah sometimes, though she has a lot of her own stuff keeping her busy. Constantine .. I think may have been briefly associated at the start of this.. but he doesn't seem even remotely like a team player and the number of people who would rather shoot him than work with him is enormous." which is mildly put.     She starts to twist her hands in little motions pulling the air towards her. Which starts to gather up the foxfire into her hands, not quite touching her skin but causing it to flow from the top of the dome down to ball there. "Constantine did manage to save me though, I got body swapped into one of the demons three and them into me due to a bad run in the actual Justice League had with Felix Faust... John fixed it. I owe him for that."
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would go to watch over until Charlie had finished with.. Whatever she was doing over with the magic flickering that she could speak again. "Fascinating. Do forgive me if I'm being a bother. I'm just trying to keep track of everything." She doesn't ask what the purpose of that specific -flame- is. That's something Charlie can explain if she feels like it.     The talk of Zatanna gets a chuckle, "The woman would have to make a Time Turner to keep up with all her obligations.." Wait, Talia reads? The talk of Constantine gets a full throated laugh from her. "That.. Matches with what I've heard." Wait, Talia Al Ghul, the daughter of the demon can giggle?     She would turn more sober and nod, "Forgive me." She didn't mean to belittle someone that Charlie did owe her life, if not perhaps her soul over to for repairing.
Charlie Gage	"Oh, it's fine. Like I said, Constantine seems to have almost no friends. He also charged an enormous amount to help fix me. He did it though. Worked. I wasn't stuck in as a demon forever... and we stopped that dick from abusing my magic. He robbed like half of the mystic world with my talent before we did the switch back.. I imagine there are still enemies out there I dont even know I have because of the crap that jerk did."     She looks at the ball of fire in her hands, ghostly blue energy flickering lapping. Then she crouches slowly and carefully tips her hands like she is pouring water from it, and feeds it carefully back into the line itself. "there.. tapped and returned... and I didn't even combust..."
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would nod, "Lovely. Just tell them tha tit wasn't you, it was the one armed man?" Yes, Talia apparently -does- apprecaite some particular fictional things. It was good for everyone to have hobbies. Even weird ones.     "Make sure to keep it that way. Unless a spell or ritual requires it, in which case make sure you have the arrangements to make yourself un-explode readied as soon as possible?" Apparently also she had a strange sense of humor.
Charlie Gage	There is a bit of a chuckle at the one armed man comment. "I mean.. they probably will be fireball first then ask questions later type of they are so fringe they didn't hear about the incident by now. Unfortunately the demon didn't just rob unstanding magic citizens..."     She carefully moves a foot out and scuffs the circle dispelling it before stepping out. "I just wanted to tap it and make sure I could and return it.... I could have used the magic I had drawn up but I didn't really have a working for it..."
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would muse over, "Well, if they're not standing I supposethey could have been flying? Floating? If they were ghosts they might have been passing through walls.." Yes, Ms. Al Ghul did have a rather strange sense of humor. She would nod at Charlie as she would go on.     "So the same amount then? Taken in and then put out again? Or were there differences in the energy?" If as she said Order magic was equal and opposite..
Charlie Gage	Charlie considers the floor where she had the circle. "Oh.. huh. I ... honestly I have no idea how one would even measure that. I mean like." she just considers. "I may have kept some, or drawing it up could have decreased it."     She chews her lip a touch. "I mostly didn't want to try to drw it in and hold it. Like. I could maybe ... so I was more focused on putting it back vs. pushing my luck this time. If I was in a fight though.. theoritically I could tap a leyline and pay for the order magic that way."
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would nod, "At the point you're doing it in a fight, it's a bit late to figure out the practicalities of it. You do what you know and what feels right. And I don't know whether the specific exchange is an important factor or not here. Or completely meaningless in the greater scheme." She would consider..     "How does it feel, then? When you were finished with it?"
Charlie Gage	"It definitely felt like I was handling... mmm have you ever handled electricity. Like plunging your hands onto a live wire. Tingly. Dangerous. Still not out of control." she glances at her hands.     "Different than handling magical fire though. That is hot. This was cold and pure in a very different sort of way. Despite looking like fire." she walks over and pops a minifridge to get a water out. "Water or anything?"
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would muse, "Yes, as part of training. To resist it.. It's a rather effective way of inflicting sensation." By that she means pain. And by pain she likely means for torturing someone. She's still a very twisted woman with a twisted upbringing.     "I can imagine that just as two things look the same way does not mean they are."
Charlie Gage	Charlie raises an eyebrow at Talia, then just takes a drink of water. She is no spring lamb, she has seen a lot of shit since she voluntered to be a vigilante and got pulled into Batgirl's orbit. Then all this dark magic. So much shit going on.     Still now she isn't entirely sure what Talia would be doing playing with live current. She honestly thinks it must be the building up resistance right. "Huh.. okay well .. like I imagine that must feel. I haven't been electrocuted too much... I mean a joker buzzer that someone got their hands on once... and one time I teleported into a live wire but I teleported off it fast enough to be okay... and some tasers.... oof those sting...."     She trails off then adds "I can see why practicing with that could be useful for training. Also yeah... in magic almost nothing is how it looks I've found."
Talia al Ghul	For the best that Charlie does not know of much of the reputation that Talia has earned. Talia does find the conversations to be quite pleasant with someone that doesn't immediately react out of well placed paranoia at her presence after all. "Effective, but unplesaant, yes. And I don't think that most would survive contact with a Joker's buzzer." She had seen the messes those made. Not the way she would ever want to die.     "You.. Teleported it fast enough?" Her mind goes through the calculations of how fast one would have to -be- to do that.
Charlie Gage	"Oh..." she grins and flops down in one of the chairs there, sprawling as she sips the bottle of water. IT is a very undisciplined sprawl.     "When I teleport I heal... so by teleporting as I bounced off the buzzer or the live line.. it healed me enough I didn't die from it. I didn't teleport fast enough to not be hurt. It hurt like hellabad..."
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would laugh, "I can imagine that healing yourself midway thorugh having sufficient electricity going through your system to kill you would be quite painful, even if being alive after it was worth the end result. So long as you don't end up teleporting yourself high up and not being able to on the way down.."
Charlie Gage	"Well I mean... I'm not conciously healing myself with magic. It just... I come out of the teleport healed when I do it." she sort of spreads her hands helplessly. "No one has been able to really explain it to me either so far."     She wiggles a foot. "Doesn't stop it hurting though.. I've been shot.. stabbed... blown up some... burned.. shocked... all sorts of stuff. Oh acid once. I did not like that no sir."
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would nod, "So long as there's enough left of you to heal." The woman that had gone through the Lazarus Pit at least once and the madness that it took through each time, the bits of soul tha tit consumed and spat out in the process..     that was something she could at least agree on.
Charlie Gage	"I guess so, it hasn't been anything... truly spectacularly lethal... but yeah it seems very effective. Trying to not treat it like a crutch though. Don't want to assume it will work everytime. I would much rather not be shot to begin with."     She sets down the empty water bottle. "Which is why I am a fan of the microarmor weave." she peels back one of the her hoodie sleeves revealing the body suit she has on under her clothes.
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would nod, "Ah, yes. Lovely stuff. At the point you're running into those that can more readily penetrate it, then you're going to have issues that no amount of armor is going to be able to be of much use in beyond 'don't get hit'. Do you mind my inquiring as to where you get your's procured at? Or is that consideredprivileged information?"
Charlie Gage	"I mean..." she puzzles. "You stole my utlity belt the first time we ran into each other. I don't think it is a great mystery to you who some of my benefactors must be?" she head tilts.     Fair point Charlie, fair point.
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would smile, "Well yes, but there's always the veneer of -politeness-. And he tends to not favor that particular style so I wonder if you'd had your own done. Your's does have a much smoother point."
Charlie Gage	"I mean. I have a whooole look when I am on patrol. My callsign is Misfit. I know there has been some pics of me... the rags call me the Batgirl knockoff." yeah she has totally read all the capewatch posts about her.     She doesn't sound like she she minds the slurs against her style. Still the Misfit cape in Gotham is very Bat-Associated and Batfamily vibe head to toe. Cape. Belt. Cowl. Cute goggles though.
Talia al Ghul	Talia al Ghul would laugh, "I see. So how much of an.. Overlap arrangement is there amongst things?" Between the Justice League Dark and the BatFamily, one might get by her turn of phrase. "Your weave seems a bit lighter as well. Perhpas just the style?"
Charlie Gage	"I mean, I'm nineteen and built different. Mine is definitely tailored and designed for me." she rubs her sleeve back down over the weave. "The other layers have more ooomfph to them when I have the full gear on. This is.. uh my..." she gestures to the room. "Civvies for JLD. IF I am with the birds or gotham work... I wear the other suit." she isn't being too cagey. Talia is in Nettie's sanctum and stole her belt. The woman is trained and capable she can figure it out if she wanted to Charlie imagines. At least this part.     I make it work, and even school. Mostly I am glad I don't need a lot of sleep."