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[pinkbefriendingbeam]

*Those of you were were inclined to get up at "god-darn-it-it's-too-early-go-back-to-sleep" o'clock in the morning this week might be treated to a glimpse of Nanoha doing one of several things around the grounds of Hogwarts.

She could be outside, waving her wand around and trying to practice something. Which would be NOT having the wand send out a small pink ball of explosiveness with every wave of it. So far she was better than when she had first started out, but that wasn't really... saying much. Every... fifth wave of the wand or so, a blast of magic would shoot out of it, and Nanoha will just sigh whenever that happens, hoping that she'll manage to get control of that soon.

Or she could be having her eyes closed, holding out her hand and controlling a small pink ball of magic, deliberately whacking a piece of trash with it to keep it floating in the air as some sort of electronic voice keeps track of it. It'd probably be somewhere around 370-450 by the time you get to her.

Or she could be wearing some sort of white school uniform thing, just flying around the Hogwarts grounds. Without a broom or anything like that. If you can manage to see her face, she'll be having the biggest grin that could possibly fit there.

Or lastly, if it's later but still rather early for you guys, she can be in the Great Hall, at the Gryffindor table eating breakfast. Or rather, trying to figure out what to eat for breakfast. Once again it seems like they had given way too much as far as the number of options for food went and she was having a hard time deciding what to eat.*

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[goldbefriendedblade]

[Fate realizes, belatedly, that she should probably still be training as well. She's woken up early enough for it, mainly because for the last two weeks she'd been getting up early just to leave herself time to get lost on the way to breakfast.]

[She's largely figured it out now, though, but for today, she's taking the time to admire the view out of the Gryffindor Tower windows, which includes watching her friend practice flying the old-fashioned way. She can't see anything but a white frilly dot from here, but she smiles anyway, knowing Nanoha's enjoying herself simply by being in the air.]

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

*Nanoha's really really happy to finally have time to go out flying again. It had been way too long since she had just been able to go ahead and do this. Sure, the brooms were nice whenever she was trying them, but nothing was better than flying on your own.

Well, other than flying with a friend, of course.*

Fate-chan? Are you awake yet?

*Nanoha made sure with that telepathic question to make it so that if Fate was asleep, she wouldn't hear it at all. But if she was awake, Nanoha would know soon enough.*

[goldbefriendedblade]

[Even for someone used to telepathy, hearing someone's voice in your ear when you just noticed her a quarter mile away is slightly startling.]

Hm? Oh! Yeah, I've been getting up a little after you have, I think...

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

*Nanoha grinned, and Fate would probably just be able to somehow hear the happiness in Nanoha's voice at her answer.*

Great! You should come out here! We haven't just flown around for no reason in forever!

[goldbefriendedblade]

You're sure we're allowed, right...?

[She thinks very quickly if she's heard any rules to the contrary, and thinks of none.]

I'll be out in a minute.

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

Well, no one said we couldn't, right?

*Nanoha waits for a moment, before smiling again.*

Alright! See you soon Fate-chan!

[goldbefriendedblade]

[Looking around the first year Gryffindor girls' room, Fate decides everyone is either asleep or gone by now. She takes the gold jewel that's been resting on her nightstand and holds it in her hand.]

Bardiche...let's go fly with Nanoha.

Yes Sir.

[With a flash of gold, her school robes are replaced with the black, red, and white caped outfit she was prone to wear in battle, and the small jewel in her hand is replaced by a large axe-like weapon. Fate idly worries if her outfit is more intimidating than Nanoha's...]

Let's go.

[And with that, she jumps out the window and starts flying toward her friend.]

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

*Nanoha's going to wait until she sees Fate... and then fly right over to her and practically grabbed her in a tight hug.*

Hi Fate-chan!

*She holds on tightly for a little bit, before breaking away and smiling.*

So, have you tried flying around the grounds yet? It's really nice from up here!

[goldbefriendedblade]

[Well that was a pleasant surprise early in the morning. After returning the hug, she shakes her head, smiling.]

I haven't really transformed at all...you're right, though, the school looks wonderful this high up.

[chibi_tanuki]

You are such a workaholic.

[this was sent via Hayate-pathy as she was watching from her tower room window down at Nanoha. Said girl was still rumpled from sleep. Morning person, she was usually but eh.]

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

No I'm not!

*Nanoha paused, taking a moment from her practice before frowning a bit.

... Okay, maybe a little. But if I don't practice now I'll get sloppy!

[chibi_tanuki]

I know, I know. There's a lot of stuff you need to get used to.

How's it coming along?

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

Well, practicing with what I already know from back home is going just as good as always.

The magic here... umm, I'm not blowing up everything anymore!

[chibi_tanuki]

That's good. Keep up the good work.

Want me to stop by your table when you come in?

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

You know you don't really need to tell me that.

And of course I would! Why wouldn't I?

[chibi_tanuki]

But I feel so much better when I say that!

Okay just checking and all.

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

Mou, Hayate-chan!

[former_endboss]

*Mir is not a morning person. Mir is not an anytime person. But she has developed a macabre passion for English breakfasts. Perhaps it is the fried egg, crispy on the bottom and nearly raw on top. Perhaps it is the sausages and bacon that move her to pile more on her plate. Or the black and rich, redolent with the smell of liver, blood pudding. boiled and fried potatoes? Why, yes, let's have some of them to. Baked beans? Why not! Tomatoes and Mushrooms, fried alongside the bacon and eggs? yes, let's have even more artery hardening stuff.

Topping it all off, a cup of Builder's Tea. Tea so sweet that even Lindy would think twice-and so much milk in it as well! At least it's black and not green.

In other words, it's the Full Breakfast, and completely alien to either her own sensibilities or Nanoha's. But Mir refuses to be intimidated by this thing, and she has sworn to vanquish it in it's queer and fat-drenched way! Which is to say, she's trying to eat a 19th century ironworker's breakfast.*

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

*Nanoha takes a break from trying to figure out her own breakfast to just... stare over at Mir. Thankfully, there wasn't a lot of people right now. Which made it all that much more visible.*

... That's a lot of food, isn't it Mir-san?

[former_endboss]

...it's my choice to eat a lot of food if I want it.

*Mir stares sullenly at her plate, shoulders slumped in the way that the weight of choice disturbs one who has seldom known choice.*

Before those wizards found me I was wandering around London. Managed to waif my way into a diner, looking poor, confused, hungry and foreign enough for someone to buy me a meal. Which was...all this.

Except that came with some kind of strange tiny piece of bread with lots of holes in it.

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

Well, you do have a point there...

*Nanoha blinks at that last part.*

Wait, really? Breakfast is really supposed to be all of that here? That... that's way more than most people need to eat!

[former_endboss]

Maybe this is one of those places that is full of big eaters, or maybe they have a tradition of light midday meals?

Actually, 'tradition' is kind of a catch all for funny local customs nobody understands.

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

*She giggles at that.*

Maybe. I mean, I can't imagine that most people could really eat anything else later if they eat all of that.

[former_endboss]

I'm sure there's a good reason for it. Big meals with eggs and meat cost money. I'm just...not totally to grips with this world's history yet. I mean, I read yesterday about some 'Roman empire' that supposedly conquered half the world? But I couldn't find any trace of it on the maps in the library, unless the R in USSR stands for Roman.

[pinkbefriendingbeam]

Well, that'd be because it collapsed entirely centuries ago.

... And the USSR collapsed years ago too.