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Candi was not thinking straight and nearly spoke out again but the woman behind her beat her to it. It was a hopeful moment, the kindness of strangers stepping into the light in the face of injustice, and it brought a fleeting smile to the her face. Fleeting because Candela saw the change in expression on the department head's face and suddenly this Transportation employee's words were hitting differently. Dangerously, even. And then she heard, somewhere distantly, Kaiser's voice warning her...
Her attention snapped back around at the mention of 'your kind' - still something that plagued her thoughts seeing as the orphan had no inkling to her true blood status - and her own upset over this as well as the utterance of that last name muted the protective and sturdy voice in her head for a moment as her lips parted to add to the protest...and then the spell was cast and so close to her shoulder she almost felt the heat of the light as it flew past her and struck the other woman. A woman who began to writhe in agony and suddenly Candela found herself incapable of breathing. She had never witnessed a spell like this in person, things had always been more supposedly benign magic turned sinister, so she was not entirely sure what all she was seeing right now...and the thought of an Unforgiveable being used so flippantly had not yet crossed her mind.
Her instincts had her ready to leap out of the chair in which she sat, so more towards the other woman and check to see that she was okay as that nod was hard to translate as a voluntary action, but then the door opened again and two more people stepped in to the office...and with them all the warmth sucked out of it. It was as though the entire space had frozen over and Candi felt a ferocious chill shoot up and down her spine as her eyes locked briefly with the Magical Law Enforcement head. The voice, Kaiser's voice, returned louder than before as the night of the gala and their discussion once they had returned home replayed over in her thoughts. She could feel her heart pounding in her ears, so much so that it muffled the man's few words and she suddenly gasped a breath before returning her attention back to the blonde woman.
"I...I understand..." she breathed out, her voice trembling and fingers balled into tight fists at her sides with the nails digging into her palms as a painful affirmation. "...I won't...continue the pursuit of an apparition license..." She found herself almost incapable of processing English at the moment and each syllable felt as though it had to be painstakingly translated from Brazilian Portuguese to English. Her eyes slowly glanced towards the door once again, her exit blocked by both men, and it took everything in her not to let the panic consume her...and her nails to dig more deeply into the fleshy part of her palm. "I'll...leave..."
Her...the field mouse...trapped in a triangle of ravenous cats.
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