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video - ces.

[Elena likes to spends her time surrounded by nature. She's been on the Barge for a while now, but the cold metals of most of the Barge is unsettling to her and she'd much rather spend time surrounded by green. So, she's taken herself to the CES. She still finds it so fascinating that it's able to create a fake world like this that seems so real without the assistance of magic, but she doesn't bother trying to pick it apart and instead simply enjoy what's there.]

[Elena has spread out a blanket and a few pillows where she is seated. She's brought food and drink with her as well. She's settled herself down beside a quiet brook in the middle of the woods. She feels right at home here. Elena is smiling when the communicator is turned on. She's using magic to hold it away from herself. It still feels strange being able to use it so openly, but you won't hear any complaints from her.]

If anyone should like to join me in the CES for a picnic, you are welcome to. I've brought enough to share.

((ooc: all responses will from from persanguinem. elena is a witch a la merlin. she was orphaned as a baby and raised by a noble family. she's since faked her death after she learned she could do magic to spare her family the shame.))

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[Elena is sitting in the cafeteria with more food than she could ever possibly want to eat. Her diary is nearby, opened with a running table across two pages for her to catalog what she's tried eating and what she likes or doesn't like about the flavors. That will help her learn to filter, or so she thinks. It could also just be busy work.]

[After her experiment, Elena can be found in the library. She finds a quiet spot to curl up with the book Abigail loaned her: a collection of Flannery O'Connor's work. Sometimes she's not actually reading, just looking at the words on the pages and thumbing the corner, because a thought came to her. But mostly, she's reading. When she gets tired of that, she goes to her room to change and heads to the gym. People who have watched her before will notice she's not attacking the bag with quite the same fervor right away. It takes a while for it to build before she's accidentally breaking it. Again.]

[Finally, Elena moves to sit on the deck. Although she stops off at her room, she doesn't bother with changing out of her gym clothes and settles on a bench to write in her diary. She writes down that she managed to get through the day. It's important that she write that down at the end of every day. It's a small reminder when she writes in it again.]

( Dear Admiral )