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[video: week twenty, friday]

[The image that appears is of Briar, sitting on the grass just outside the ship and frowning at the device in front of him. Settled next to him is a potted miniature pine tree. But the most striking thing about him is the intricate leafy vine tattoos on his hands and forearms - which if you look closely at, you might be realise are actually moving.

When Briar starts talking, he seems to be addressing the mirror itself rather than anyone on the other end]

You can't be working, you know. I've never been able to scry - and besides, you don't even have any magic anyway, so I don't see how I'm supposed to talk to anyone with this.

[Not that Briar's all that sure he wants to talk who whoever brought him here. But magical objects without any magic is just plain bizarre, so his frown deepens]

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The who?

The Muggles. The people without...erm...

Perhaps this should wait until we meet.

Well you'd better hurry and get here, then. [Briar grins at Lupin]

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Hang on. I'll be right there.

[It's so much easier to just apparate than to actually walk all the way out there. And in just a few moments, he's outside the ship.]

Hello?

[Well, Briar wasn't expecting him to hurry quite that quickly. He gapes at Lupin when he appears, but his shock soon turns to curiosity as he scrambles to his feet]

What spell did you use to do that?

[That is a much less extreme reaction than Remus is beginning to become used to around here.]

It's just...apparition. Can you not do that either?

Apparition? [Briar shakes his head] I've never heard of it. I'm am ambient mage though, not an academic mage. I don't really do spells.

[Remus sighs and shakes his head, of course it was too much for him to hope this man would practice a magic similar to his own. He offers his hand.]

Remus Lupin. It's nice to meet you.

[Briar grins, and reaches out with his own hand to shake Lupin's. And if Lupin hadn't noticed Briar's tattoos before - the moving, leafy design that stretched from his hands to his elbows - then he certainly would now.] Briar Moss. So, do I get to hear about these secret things that I shouldn't say to my scrying mirror now?

[Remus shakes his hand warmly and then gives him a wry smile.]

Well, for one, the fact that you have a scrying mirror.

[Briar blinks]

You want me to not tell my scrying mirror that I have a scrying mirror. Right, that makes perfect sense!

[After letting go of Briar's hand, Remus takes a step or two back. He's fairly certain he remembers the doctor saying that he'd still be contagious even with the anti-whatsits he'd been given.]

Well, it's likely not working exactly like a scrying mirror anymore. And it's the magic you want to be careful about discussing.

[Briar won't be happy if he realises that you've just exposes him to the plague, Remus]

I already knew that much. It doesn't have any magic at all! [Briar frowns to himself, perplexed. He still doesn't understand how that can work] But why've you got to be careful about magic?

[He forgot he had it! His brain's a little fuzzy at the moment.]

Because the Authorities don't much like it. Apparently they've come after magic users before.

[Briar looks at Remus sharply]

Who are 'the Authorities'? And why don't they like mages?

They're sort of...soldiers. From the dome. And they don't like anything that might give the people out here a chance against them.

[Briar scowls. It figures. Once again, someone in power wants to cling onto it, and doesn't care what they do to others to keep it]

They must not be all that confident, if they just go after everyone with even a bit of magic. Don't they have their own mages? [he doesn't realise that that question isn't actually rhetorical - back in his world, every nation has mages]

Er...I don't think so? I haven't...

[He pauses a moment to cough.]

There aren't many of us here who have magic.

[Briar scratches his head. Mages are as common as dirt, so the idea of them being in short supply is odd to him] There must still be a fair few, right? That dome - there'd have to be lots of people living there. Some of them've got to be magic.

As far as I can tell, no. I've only met one other here who does any sort of magic.

And it's very different from my sort.

Just one? They should have more than that! Maybe if they didn't keep killing all their mages off, they'd actually have a few. [Briar shakes his head. It's ridiculous, really.] But what do you mean, different? Why kind of magic did they have?

It was sort of...

[He shakes his head, not sure how to explain Thero's magic. The action and the effort of thinking make him a little lightheaded.]

Sorry, I've...I think I should sit down.

[Which he promptly does, on a nearby rock.]

It was sort of...more potions and rituals and less spellwork.

[Briar scratches his head] Potions? They're not that unusual though, for academic mages at least. But why the rituals though? The most they could do is help you meditate.

I'm not sure...I didn't understand much of his explanation, but it seems the rituals are the magic.

We have a bit of that where I'm from as well.

You do? But aren't you an academic mage?

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