Pushing glasses into place for Olivia and Carla and/or Mateo
Carla strolled into the wizard workshop, humming a little tune under her breath and immediately turned to the bookshelf. She run her fingers through the book spines and smiled when she found the right one. She popped it off the shelf and into her other hand, then turned right away to leave, when she heard a frustrated voice behind her.
"Um, could you help me please?!" Carla turned around, slight smile on her lips turning into an expression fo confusion at the sight that spread out before her.
Olivia, in her full glory of the apprentice robe and glasses falling off of her face, was pressed against the opposite wall, and holding her tamborita in front of her chest. With a spell, most probably a levaluq she was holding something, tugging and twisting terribly only a few inches from her face. Carla came closer and recognized the something as a little cat figuring Mateo was gifted some time ago to help with his magical studies. Except last time she saw it, it was little, stone and old, and Carla remembered she immediately judged it as creepy. Well, given that now it was at least two times larger, and apparently alive as it was clawing furiously at Olivia's face she decides her judgement was correct.
She walked over to Olivia, pushed her glasses into place and waving her goodbye turned to leave.
"No, come back!" Olivia yelled desperately. "I won't be able to hold it off much longer!"
Carla rolled her eyes but faced her again.
"Gee, I'm not sure if I can," she said with the most ironic voice she could muster. "I'm not supposed to be alone with you in the workshop after all."
"Oh please," Olivia started but Carla was far from finished.
"I mean, I've been told that I might have "bad influence" on you, or even, hmm how did it go...? Oh, right," she changed her voice so it was more similar to Olivia's. "That I used to be a malvago do what if I decide to use my evil magic on some innocent little girl?"
"Plee-hee-heease,"Olivia begged and Carla rolled her eyes in response.
She pulled her tamborita from the wall and cast a half-hearted talact on the statue-cat. Then with a Meyázam she caught it in her hand, adjusted its paws properly and after a shrinking spell tossed it back to Olivia.
"Here, now all you have to do is turn it back to stone, you're welcome."
Olivia caught the creature but glanced warily at Carla. All of her distress from just moments ago was now gone.
"Why don't you do it yourself?"
"I don't use this spell!" Carla answered sharply, crossing the air with her arm. Olivia made a step back and she immediately remembered herself. "Anyway, a regular thank you would be enough. Next time don't touch Mateo's stuff if you're not ready for the consequences."
Then she turned on her heel and stomped away. Only when she was at the doors she heard a murmured "thanks" behind herself. She stopped but didn't look back.
"Thanks for saving my butt," Olivia repeated more loudly this time. "I'd probably be more scratches than human at this point if not for you."
"You're welcome." Carla sighed and finally looked at the girl. "Are you alright?"
"Could you... Could you not tell Mateo about what happened? I just wanted to get a closer look at this figurine, it was an accident, really."
"Depends." Carla crossed her arms. "Could you stop undermining my training by dragging out my past? Which is already well known to everyone here?"
Olivia felt herself blush and dropped her gaze to the floor.
"Sorry, I... That was really unnecessary of me. And mean."
"Yeah, yeah it was," Carla retorted. But finally she forced a weak smile and added, "But I guess you had your reasons so I don't blame you."
"But I was wrong," Olivia said before Carla even finished. "I mean... We're colleagues now, I guess, and I'd Mateo trusts you I should've too. I should. I'll try to."
Carla's forces smile turned into a genuine find smirk.
For a second she seemed to be thinking on want to do next, but finally decided to just nod to her, and put her tamborita back on the well where it was supposed to be kept.
"And now I'll leave you to that stone spell," she said hike giving her co-apprentice a mock salute and finally leaving. Over her shoulder she just yelled, "I'd prefer not to be here for that, but I'm sure you'll do great."
This dynamic was very interesting to figure out, thank you very much for this ask nonnie!
