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Did I like it there? Dallin took a moment to think before answering, not really knowing how to answer that question honestly, without talking for ages. "I... I think it was good that I started school there." He said with a sharp nod. "It would have been way too much for me to start here, all alone and stuff. At least at Merlin's I had my sisters with me to sorta help me into the Wizarding World." Gah. That sounded dumb.
He'd actually still been looking to her when she talked, so he noticed her get a bit more... stiff. His eyebrows scrunched together, but he decided not to ask about it. It was probably personal anyway. "It's very crazy." He agreed, his eyes widening as he looked down. "Although, I was younger. I was... six? Seven? Something like that. Two of my sisters are witches." Man, he was sure chatty today.
"What gets me is that some people can do it, and some can't. Maybe it's just me, but I don't know what you have to have in you to be able to perform magic."
Alice nodded at him, sensing that there was a story involved with why he left, but she figured she wouldn't push it. If he wanted to share he could, but he didn't have to.
"Oh, so you have siblings?" Alice said with a little smile.
"I'm an only child and so far as I know I'm the only witch besides my..." Alice stiffened again but after a little shake of the head managed to finish the sentence.
"Besides my mother," she concluded.
Alice shifted her attention back to the tree for a moment before returning her gaze to Dallin.
"Was it easier having siblings show you the ropes so to speak? My dad and I have just been stumbling through it all," Alice said with a little laugh. She thought Dallin looked like her felt stupid for saying that out loud, so Alice tried to assure him that he didn't sound stupid.
"It's kind of scary facing all of this alone," Alice said, giving a gesture with her hand.
"I mean, muggles are open minded but even they aren't willing to believe that there are actual schools that teach people how to do magic, let alone people that are actually capable of magic."
Alice considered for a moment what exactly it was that made her a witch. Obviously there was something in her genetic composition that made her be able to do what she could do, but why did she have it but not another muggle girl that was the same age?
"It is weird to think about what makes us so different from them you know? I mean, is it a complete difference in genetics? Are we so genetically different from them that there's no way to compare us to them, or is it just a singular cell in our body that's different?" Alice was quiet for a moment, picking at a blade of grass on the ground between her and Dallin.
"I wonder if witches and wizards try and figure it out you know? I'm sure most just take it for what it is, and some probably think it's because we're some kind of "superior" race or some crazy nonsense like that." Alice shifted her gaze back up to Dallin.
"What do you think makes us so different...from muggles I mean?"