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Thea entered from the direction of upstairs. She looked much better today, her cheeks were glowing, her hair was shiny and she was inclined to be nice to everyone, even a certain Frenchman. She stepped up to the bar and after a small hesitation asked for several things, none of which were exactly ordinary. Then she sat down in a booth and laid them out in front of her, scribbling hastily in a notebook.

Why not ask her what one does with an chunk of Celestite, some salt and a bowl of water?

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Thea didn't notice, she was too busy scribbling. She felt a presence of course, but people looking curiously at her was nothing new.

The Ordinary Princess hesitates for a moment. Then the crow makes her decision for her, as he flaps over the the bowl of water and uses it as a birdbath.

"Peter Aurelious, stop!" the Ordinary Princess says. "I'm so very sorry," she adds, addressing the woman at the table.

"That's alright." Thea smiled and her eyes glinted, despite the lack of sunlight in the room.

"I like animals." She imitated the crow's harsh tones, not sounding human anymore.

The Ordinary Princess's eyes open a little wider. She talks to Peter Aurelious all the time herself, but in her tongue, not his.

"That's Peter Aurelious," she says finally, and the crow says "Qwa!"

"And the squirrels are Mr. Pemberthy and Simon Perryvall. Simon Perryvall used to be an acorn shell, but he got alchemized. And I'm Amy."

She wasn't talking to him, just imitating. She was a witch, but she could only communicate with animals telepathically.

Thea reached out a slender tanned hand.

"Thea Harman. Unity."

It was the age old greeting of the witches. She was a little uncomfortable using it, but this bar was a different sort of place. Not Night world, not human world.

The Ordinary Princess looks at the extended hand. It's not the first time someone has showed her a hand, and she still has no idea why. Confused, she instinctively reverts to court manners and sweeps an extremely elegant curtsey, given that she's dressed like a kitchen maid.

"It's very nice to meet you, Thea Harman Unity."

Thea drew her hand back, figuring that where Amy came from that must be how things are done.

She attempted a curtsey herself, got her heel stuck in her jeans, whapped an ankle on the table and almost fell over.

"No, unity is just a greeting, call me Thea."

"Oh," says the Ordinary Princess. "Are you all right, Thea?"

She looks again at the things on the table. It doesn't look like Thea is cooking. "What are you making?" she asks, curious.

"I'm trying to make the door reappear, really I'm just brainstorming."

She'd rather ignore the fact that Amy saw her almost fall over.

"Trying to make a door reappear?" the Ordinary Princess asks, being far more careful with her italics this time. "Did a door vanish?" In the Ordinary Princess' experience, this in not normal door behavior.

"The door I came through... it's not there anymore."

Thea looked hurriedly at her notebook, hoping to look less crazy.

"Oh!" Fortunately, someone explained at least some of this to the Ordinary Princess last night. She sits down, without asking, and says "Are you Bound then? Are you dead? You don't look dead."

Mr. Pemberthy chatters sympathically, and offers Thea an acorn.

"I'm not dead!" She looked rather worried at this last statement.

She smiled at the squirrel and accepted the acorn. Actually, it'd be perfect for in her spell.

"Good," says the Ordinary Princess. "I'm not sure I'd be at all comfortable talking to a dead person. And I can't imagine it would be comfortable to be a dead person." Something else occurs to her. "So you're trapped here?"

"Yes, I am. I'm very worried."

Worried about what Blaise could be doing without her to keep an eye on things.

"Oh, dear," says the Ordinary Princess. "Is there anything I can do to help?"

She's not sure what that would be, honestly, but feels like she should offer.

"Not unless you can get the door back."

She sounded harsher than she intended. it's a bit of a shock that Thea can sound harsh.

"Hmmmmmm." Amy thinks about it for a moment. "I don't think I can. I've never had any trouble getting in and out of the bar." She sounds very glum.

The she has an idea. "Is there anything I can bring you? I assume you're doing magic, since I can't think of any other way a bowl of water can create a door."

"I've got all the ingredients I can think of just now. Thanks for offering."

She frowned slightly, her eyes narrowing.

"What do you know of magic?"

Usually, she would not go into this, because it's the part of her life she doesn't talk about here, but she's feeling very sorry for the woman who's stuck in the bar, so she rushes recklessly ahead.

"Well, my parents have a court magician, of course. And I have a great number of fairy godmothers, all the members of Oberon's Court, actually. It's a very different kind of magic, I think, from the magician's. Magic is what made me ordinary, instead of a proper--well, ordinary."

"Isn't everyone ordinary?"

Thea looked quite confused, but didn't mention the woman's slip-up.

"Most people," the Ordinary Princess agrees, cheerfully.

She would leave it at that, but notices Thea looks a little confused. With a sigh she adds, "But I'm not supposed to be, because I'm a princess."

There, she's said it.

"Who said princesses can't be ordinary?"

She looked annoyed. Witches didn't really have royalty in the same sense as other people.

"My mother," she says. "And all the princes they wanted me to marry. Well, they only wanted me to marry one of them, of course. But the princes want beautiful princesses, like my sisters, not ordinary ones. I don't care in the slightest, I like being ordinary, but I'm not about to marry some silly stuffy prince and I was not about to go along with that ridiculous idea about the dragon!"

The Ordinary Princess is a little flushed, and she's not not especially concerned with filling in all the details.

"You shouldn't have to marry anyone."

Thea was huffy. Witches were used to taking care of themselves, the whole husband idea was a bit ridiculous.