( miavi. un: x )

[darkart]

[ If you're feeling fancy and bored tonight (today, this morning..), here's a magic puzzle for you. It looks something like:


The parts can be re-arranged into two dozen different runes, which can then be translated into spells. The simpler ones, of which there are fifteen, simply make everything disappear when 'solved'. The remaining, more difficult nine are:

✧ Shimmery, translucent flowers appear around your head and shoulders, for about five minutes.
✧ BANG. Jumpscare.
✧ An enchanted doodle plays Hangman with you, the winning word changing periodically.
✧ Displays a recipe for zucchini bread. The best zucchini bread you've ever fucking had.
✧ Suggestions for what to try at the curry house in Hogsmeade.
✧ Creates a very cold feeling for about five minutes.
✧ Causes the message What else could you have been doing with your free time? to appear.
✧ Displays directions for a spell to turn nicotine cigarettes into clove cigarettes.
✧ Nothing. Unless you have a Dark Mark, in which case, a small black snake slithers into existence from the base of your wrist, wriggling to the inside of your elbow before vanishing.

Once each rune has been 'solved', the drawing vanishes, making doing more than one very difficult; the witch or wizard (or wizich) will have had to have made a copy or cast a charm to preserve it prior to fussing through everything.

( OP's username, x, is not anonymous, though Severus's general disinclination to socialize might leave even 'friends' in the dark. up2u, my sweet beans. ) ]

Comments

un: b.black

[scinlac]

( C'mon, of course Bella enjoys a good Riddle. )

Adorable. Who thought you had it in you?

( She actually draws a small snake. It slithers along the words of the message and disappears into the ether. )

[darkart]

You, probably, considering your standards of adorable.

i'm so gonna steal that icon tbh

[scinlac]

I do try to see the best in people.

( Some things are just too wrong for words. )

i didn't make it lmf steal away

[darkart]

[ Eugh, this is weird. (Or ... something. Cue repressing of boners feelings from being a seventeen year old. ]

You absolutely do not.

[scinlac]

( It's only weird if you make it weird, Sev. )

I hide it well.

( There goes another one: nicotine to cloves, this time. Cigarettes, really? )

And that from a teacher.

[darkart]

[ He doesn't even like cloves. Cowboy killers all the way. ]

I teach magic, not manners. Or are you going to give me more than I'm bargaining for, Bella?

[scinlac]

( Anything that keeps her hands busy, that's her style of smoking. The cloves are a good change of pace. )

Take it as a challenge.