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AUG 2; SOMEWHERE PRIVATE (ALL DAY)

An elephant never forgets and she likes to think that includes ghosts of elephants. It makes, doesn't it? Elephants have always been able to remember such uncanny things and since they weren't changed that much upon their passing, they should be able to retain their excellent memories.

So she wants to believe her memory is sharp as ever after all these years, able to keep information if she wants to keep it.

And she has a lot to keep with even more to tell to certain parties.

Clara heads to where she thinks they're most likely to be, calling out their name softly to make sure it'll be between her and them. It took a while to find them but she hopes, at long last, she found them and can have an important chat with them about some subjects she's itching to speak of.

"Hello?"

They need to have a little chat.

AUG 3; SOMEWHERE PUBLIC (ALL MORNING AND AFTERNOON)

Since most of her work hours in Redbright happen in the evening, she's free for the rest of the day when one of the people there, either Bianca Aster or a teacher, assure her they'll be fine and they tell her that she needs to take a break, that she can't always be doing something.

It's taken as a suggestion.

Currently she's channeling her energies back at Harrow, floating around to make arounds and keep an eye for anything strange or suspicious. Nothing too out of the blue so she plans to make her way through Harrow to the rest of the Redbright territories -- Brent, Ealing, Hounslow, and etc -- to see what is happening so far.

AUG 5; REDBRIGHT INSTITUTE (EVENING)

When Clara is on the job, she takes it very seriously.

For one thing-- It's the first real job she's had in over fifteen years and it involves looking after young ones. Of course she'll be doing her best to keep them safe, checking the corridors and inspecting the rooms.

Most of the time, she's merely a precaution to make sure they can say with a straight face that they've at least tired to stop anyone from doing antics in the school. Then there are the times she spots something from the corner of her eyes and she is after it.

"Excuse me! Who's there?"

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What happened was not a jolt, but instead a light that suffused Clara, bringing with it a feeling of warmth and the faint smell of flowers. It faded, but left another feeling behind. Maybe the next time a medium was on Clara's trail, he'd be distracted by a dog barking. Or when she felt threatened, she'd snap back just a little quicker to the place where she felt safe.

"Nothing to it," said Heiji cheerfully.

That was… surprisingly rather pleasant. Clara smiles at him, relieved it was so harmless and os quick.

"It looks like I owe you one," she said. It was only fair she pay him back for helping her out with her consistent problem of people trying to exorcise her. "I seem to be owing favours to lot of people to keep mediums off my back!"

Except this favour isn't owed through violence. That's a plus for a pacifist like Clara.

"Is it that big a problem?" he asked, furrowing his brow a bit in concern. "You be careful, Miss Clara. Some fae trade on favors. And they expect to be paid back."

And a little extra luck might not help in a situation like that.

"Unfortunately. I've been around long enough to get a nickname from the community: The Harrowing Ghost." Where she's found the most, geddit?

Much as she appreciates the almost punny name, she didn't like the notoriety that it had attached to it.

"I'll try to be more careful in the future, Heiji. She was rather scary but! If it wasn't for her, I think I would have been in hot water that evening." The knitted brows and the frown show she's quite serious about that. That close in nearly being a ghost. "I just wish it didn't involve shocking someone. I'm pretty sure that leaves a mark of some kind."

"Sounds like a harrowing experience." A brief pause. Yeah, let that sink in. "But who's 'her'? And why's everyone think you're such a big scary ghost, anyway? I never seen you throw glasses around or growl at people."

Although admittedly, Clara could be a bit dangerous around lightbulbs.

"Supposedly, if you get a big enough shock, your hair can turn white overnight! That's just a myth, of course. I mean, even if your hairs did turn white, it'd take a while to grow out." Unless there was magic involved.

"Point is, I doubt you scared him that bad."

That gets a startled laugh out of her! Puns all day every day. Really, back to being serious:

"I admit the first few years of being a ghost weren't my best years if you met me then. I was temperamental at times." An utter understatement while she grappled her morality and her powers. She winches to this day over the memories of before. How she was quick to scare people by slamming doors and windows and ruining.

Poor Francisco had to flee their old apartment after the microwave incident, leaving her alone there until the apartment was torn down. "Over the years, the reputation kind of built up that even if I tried to talk to someone who heard of the stories first, I can't blame them for thinking I was trying to be crafty or something.

"The recent medium incident isn't helping too, I suppose. When I mean shock-- I literally mean shock. As in they were electrocuted. Akane, the one who helped me, she did that since she thought it was the only way to stop them." Akane also said the witch would most likely forget the incident and she's crossing her fingers on that. "She was quite intimidating! To think I thought she was an only interested student for Redbright too."

"You? Really? It's kinda hard to imagine. Understandable, though! I mean, you were pretty recently dead, right? But you seem pretty at peace with it now." Which was maybe why those mediums should take it down a notch.

"Lot of people running around with electrical powers... but it seems like she had some pretty good control over hers already." Not like Sasuke, who was struggling a little. "She was a prospective student, you say? Speakin' of Redbright, I was actually going to ask you a bit about it..."

It's hard to look back and see for herself that was all her own doing but the training wheels were hard to use then, so to speak. And people like to think ghosts can't change or grow, simply stuck forever in one mindset or loop or something.

A very rude to presume. Not all ghosts are like that.

"Akane said she was hoping to join, would take a real tour and everything with a student there, but I'm not sure if she is now." Maybe she'll ask Bianca later since the two made a promise to have a tour on a later date. Did it pan through? Was Bianca as uneasy around her or was it just Clara's fears getting the best of her again?

It's worrying and so she's glad Heiji has another topic to venture into. Maybe she can ignore the strange feeling she has in her gut by focusing on what he wants to ask now. It's only fair.

Maybe she's being silly. Talking about something else will help clear it up, surely. "Redbright--? What about it?"

"Maybe how much of what its Chancellor says is real," said Heiji. "I mean, ya can't really trust a politician, anyway. But if she's really all that concerned about inclusiveness and togetherness and all that, how come the werewolves so obviously get the short end of the stick when it comes to making the big decisions? That's not even gettin' into the fae -- or even ghosts."

In other words, what did 'inclusiveness' mean when it was the witches running everything in the one official governing body supernatural London had?

"Huh," she says. "I never knew that."

Was it that bad as it seems to be? Clara is unsure of how a lot of things are done with the rest of the community, only getting really into it in the past few years. She had no idea werewolves weren't that liked by the councilpeople? Why is that?

"I don't know Mrs. Redbright all that well but I like to think that when she made the school and the safe zones and pushed things forward, she did have good intentions," is all she can really say with certainty. "I can't blame others, though, if they feel like she doesn't have their bests interests at heart these days. People and things and even places change over time."

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