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[dancingmd]

Who: Beverly Crusher and you!!!
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Nominally beach but really anywhere! Feel free to tag her with a place of your choice!
When: July 26th until the end of the glitchiness

[Beverly woke up this morning feeling strangely... invigorated. Looser, more carefree, and dare she say it? Happier than she's felt in months, ever since she first arrived on the Marsiva. To celebrate, she decided to head for the beach.

Which is where you'll find her now, lounging on a towel and reading a book that looks suspiciously similar to the ah... literature Dorian was so kind as to read out loud to the network a while back. At the very least, there's a ridiculous picture of a shirtless burly man in a plaid kilt on the front cover. As for her, well, she's wearing a very stylish green bathing suit and a big white sunhat, thoughtfully provided by a fan (who has thankfully saved you all from seeing her in some 1980s sparkly gold monstrosity instead). No doubt if you approach her, she'll flash a blinding smile your way and cheerfully engage you in conversation. Or better yet, some fun activities! Right now, she's up for almost anything!]

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[notmutantbutmiracle]

So he is in school?

[Wanda ponders over this briefly.]

You said he was 22? So university?

[dancingmd]

Not quite. It's more like... an apprenticeship.

[To be a Time Lord.]

[notmutantbutmiracle]

Apprenticeship? So he works with his hands? A carpenter then?

[Although Wanda knows she and Beverly are clearly not originally from the same world, she is obviously not aware of just how different their too realities were before arriving in the Fleet.]

[dancingmd]

[She grins.]

No, no, though I'm sure he would make an excellent one, if he wanted to. No, Wesley's learning to maneuver through and manipulate space and time.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[And that is going to give Wanda pause. She is likely looking a little thunderstruck for a moment, before recovering into a more neutral expression. At this point, between battling with Gods, Monsters and Robots only to find herself whisked across worlds to travel around space still hasn't completely numbed her to such surprises it seems.]

Your son... he can do this? Travel through space and time?

[dancingmd]

Mmm-hmm. To be honest with you, though, I still don't quite understand how or why he has these abilities.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

I take it then he did not receive them from you?

[She eyes Dr. Crusher a little skeptically at this. Not that she has any reason to think that Beverly is lying, but more so that she's trying to establish if her son might be similar to Wanda in how their respective powers "developed."]

[dancingmd]

[If Beverly notices Wanda's suspicious stare, she doesn't show it.]

No, nor from his father either. At least, that we know of. It could very well be some sort of dormant gene. Or it's just a random mutation, possibly the next step in human evolution.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Could it be that Wanda had more in common with Dr. Crusher's son that she might have thought? Wanda's expression becomes more puzzled as she ponders over this bit of information.]

I do not mean to pry if it is to personal, but... could he have received them from someone else?

[dancingmd]

What do you mean?

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda realizes she may have offended Dr. Crusher, so she tries to sound apologetic while trying to explain the context of her question a little more.]

My abilities were not inherited. They were... given to me. I was curious if your son could have been through something similar. I am sorry. I did not mean to offend.

[dancingmd]

[She frowns in confusion and shakes her head.]

I'm not offended! I just don't understand exactly what you mean. I don't know who could or would have given them to him. As it was explained to me, it was something he always innately had, and just has to learn to tap into.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda gives a small sigh of relief. Dr. Crusher had seemed so serious a moment ago. Wanda didn't have to worry about her abilities and her parents' reaction to them, so she wasn't sure what Beverly's reaction represented.]

Innately... I see. That is interesting. There are few back home who can claim to have innately possessed their abilities.

[And technically, one of them wasn't even from Earth.]

[dancingmd]

[She's pretty incapable of getting too upset or serious right now, thanks to the glitch.]

Oh, it's not very common, not among humans anyway, but we wouldn't be the first species to evolve in that direction, so while it was surprising when we found out, it's not unprecedented.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Who knows why it took her this long to ask this question, but nonetheless Wanda finally thinks to ask it.]

Where are you from exactly Dr. Crusher?

[dancingmd]

[A little chuckle.]

That depends on what you mean. My ancestors are from Earth - Scotland, to be exact. But I was born on the moon and grew up on several different planets, only living on Earth while I was in med school. Ever since then, I've lived on Starships, serving as a member of Starfleet.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Well, that suddenly was a lot all at once. Again, Wanda's been trying to not let herself be so surprised by the backgrounds of different Fleet members she met, but it was likely due to her preconception that Dr. Crusher and her were from a similar home world. In this case, it was more of the time, rather than the place that was surprising.]

You were born on the moon? What year is it where you are from?

[dancingmd]

It's the year 2370.

[By the traditional Western Earth calendar at least. Let's not get into Stardates yet.]

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda had gotten used to being the one apparently from the future, but in those cases it had been two or three years at most. It seemed Dr. Crusher had her beat by a large margin.]

2370? I- I do not- [A slight pause as Wanda tries to think of something to say.] Wow...

[dancingmd]

[Just wait until she meets Daneel.]

What year is it for you?

[notmutantbutmiracle]

2015.

[Wanda only manages to get out the year. She's still a little too dazed, caught up in her pondering over the implications of this little reveal. Her mind formulating all sorts of ideas and questions.]

[dancingmd]

They have an awful lot of people here from the turn of the millennium. I wonder why that is.

[She is used to getting the look Wanda is giving her by now, so she will just patiently wait.]

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda shakes her head, both in response to Beverly and also to clear her head.]

I cannot imagine why...

[There are many questions Wanda has, but the one that comes out first is:]

Earth, people still... live... there?

[dancingmd]

Oh, of course! I myself don't, but many of my friends do. Or at least were born there.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda lets out a small sigh, clearly she had been worried that something may have happened to the Earth in the future.]

That is a relief.

So then your son... his powers are uncommon? Even in this future?