Long Day Means Rest ~Alex~

[Jaylen Nemechek]

Jaylen nodded at about everything he said about the watch. Batteries seemed like an interesting thing to the pure-blood witch. “So when the chemicals mix the battery has to be replaced, what do you do with the one that was in the watch before?” she asked. He then went to discuss about the moving pictures of muggles. “So pictures are still, but the television is not?” she asked him, “it sounds like a television is like our own pictures here in the wizarding world,” she said. It made no sense, why would muggles have still pictures and moving pictures? Why not just have one?

Alex seemed confused by some of the things that she spoke of with the floo powder. She thought of a way to say it. “Well it is easy to get taken to a different place, speaking clearly helps though, if you know where you want to go you just say it and drop the floo powder, it's hard to explain when you've done it for so long, dad told me once that if even a syllable is mispronounced or you combine words it can effect, personally I've never been dropped anywhere wrong, but it is possible, usually getting taken somewhere else happens to people when it's their first time,” she told him, “I hope that made a little more sense,” she said.

[Alex Woltheizen]

"Well," Alex explained, moving his watch slightly on his wrist as he spoke, "when you have to replace the battery, you send the old one to a special place that takes out the chemicals before recycling the outside. Muggles used to just throw the batteries away, but the chemicals inside would leak out and get into the ground. When that started poisoning the water supplies, the muggles stopped throwing them away and started doing what they do now." He laughed slightly about the thing with the television. "Well, they're sort of like wizard pictures, but unlike in wizard pictures, the subjects only do a certain thing. For instance, when someone is video taped - that's what they call taking a moving picture - the person in the video will only do exactly what that person was doing. It's rather like a ton of regular muggle pictures, all stringed together and moving quickly so that when you view them all in succession, it looks like the people are moving.

Alex thought for a moment about the floo powder system, then nodded. "I think I understand now," he told her. He thought for a while, then went on to his next question. "Okay, you mentioned apparating. I read about that; is that the thing that you can get spliced doing if you're not careful? What is splicing, anyway?"

[Jaylen Nemechek]

“Muggles are confusing,” Jaylen finally decided. She did not understand why they would use something that could endanger their lives for them to just power their things. She shrugged and looked at him as he went on to explain the television thing. He said that they could only do one thing and that was the thing at the time of making. She nodded. “So they move but they can't do anything like travel between their pictures or anything?” she asked him. She guessed it made a little since but most definitely not a ton of it. Muggles were definitely confusing to her and she was glad she was not one. They seemed to not know what they were doing. Maybe she should have taken a muggle studies course, because as interesting as it was she must have also seemed like a complete idiot for not knowing anything whatsoever, especially with the fact that she went to muggle elementary school.

He asked her about apparating, of which a class he could take next year, a class that both of them would take next year. She was very excited for that class. “Well I've only done side apparition,” she told him. She thought on how to explain the full apparition experience but first she would explain the splicing. “Well when you apparate or disapparate than there is a chance of getting spliced, that's why you have to legally be able to apparate to do such a thing, there's hefty fines if you get spliced and the ministry has to come help,” she said, “when you get spliced it means a body part gets left behind, there's all types of splicing, some worst than others, my dad told me when he was younger and taking his class he left his left leg and left arm behind, and than it can also be as simple as a finger or a toe,” she said, “I've never been told what splicing feels like but I think it would hurt, the main problem with splicing is when you do it in muggle areas because if body parts are just left there where you left them muggles would most likely freak out.” It was hard explaining something she still did not know much about.