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[passingthrough]

Who: Kitty and all the people of fleet!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: Windrose if you want
When: At some point before the masquerade

We have a masquerade coming up, and I was bored so I thought I'd mettle in people's lives for my own amusement. First, the disclaimer, there is nothing wrong with going to a dance solo.

Now, for anyone else, who wants a date?

Sorry, not me. Taken. But there are probably some of you out there thinking a date would be fun, and sure, why not? So speak up. Let's make some love connections. Or, you know, awkward dancing connections. I'm a mutant, not a miracle worker.

(OOC: Please feel free to threadjack.)

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[experiencepoints]

Delwight, Ashvara. If my planet has a name, I don't remember it.

How does that work?

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[girlverine]

[She didn't know what to do with that information yet, so she just filed it away.]

I heal rapidly from any injury or infection.

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[experiencepoints]

Like Regen magic?

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[girlverine]

...I don't know. It is not magic, I am a mutant.

[Laura doesn't know much of anything about magic.]

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[experiencepoints]

Oh, right, like Kitty. Something about 'atoms'.

[the way she says it makes it clear she's cringing about it. THAT'S NOT HOW ATOMS WORK.]

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[girlverine]

I...do you mean DNA?

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[experiencepoints]

No, I was asking her how she did her walking through walls thing, and it was a weird answer about atoms. It didn't make much sense.

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[girlverine]

Oh. I don't know how her abilities work.

Mine is nothing like hers.

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[experiencepoints]

How does yours work? If that's okay to ask.

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[girlverine]

I have claws.

[It was something of a lame explanation, perhaps. So she held up her hand, and a smooth metal claw emerged from between her knuckles, eight or so inches long with a bit of blood from where it cut her skin open.]

And I heal quickly.

[She let the claw retract, and the slit it had created in her hand sealed up almost instantly behind it.]

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[experiencepoints]

... Heal quickly or no, doesn't that still hurt?

[If it doesn't hurt, then it's fine, but if it does... Well. That's a worrying power.]

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[girlverine]

Yes.

[Every time.]

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[experiencepoints]

That's- That's terrible.

[Her voice is full of sympathy and sadness, honestly.]

Can anything be done about that? Your own power shouldn't hurt you like that every time you use it.

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[girlverine]

No. And I am used to pain. This is nothing. I have endured far worse.

[Man, dark again. She sighs.]

Sorry. Kitty said that I should try...not to speak of things like this.

[It's just that 'this' was so much of her life.]

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[experiencepoints]

That doesn't make it right.

[She shakes her head.]

It's all right. Talk about whatever you're comfortable talking about. I can get pretty depressing myself.

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[girlverine]

[What she wants. Why was it always about what she wants? She missed when her wants were just whatever was necessary for a mission. Not for...everything else.]

I don't know.

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[experiencepoints]

You don't know? ... What you'd want to talk about?

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[girlverine]

I...sorry.

[She doesn't know how to do small talk!]

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[experiencepoints]

You don't have to apologize. It's all right.

[She's starting to sympathize with her team a bit more, though, remembering how bad she was at the start.]

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[girlverine]

Mm. [She made a soft, unhappy sound under her breath.]

It is so easy for other people.

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[experiencepoints]

Yeah... I've never understood it either.

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[girlverine]

[Laura drew in a long breath.]

...I will see you at the dance?

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[experiencepoints]

Yeah. I'll see you there. Look for the purple, if you can't find me.