Heron May mingle

[grandstanding]

Who: Heron crew and visitors
Broadcast: nope
Action: the Heron
When: all May!

[Birds of a feather mingle together.]

Comments

[grandstanding]

[Shit. There's a hardness in his eyes for a moment before he masks it.]

They do indeed. But as long as we remember that, we can be ready for when they stop pretending.

[throwsdown]

[A nod.]

We're all real strong. They think they're way stronger, but sometimes stronger people get unlucky.

That's when the good guys win.

[Takeshi dial it back, bro, you sound like a miniature war machine.]

You can still do all kindsa' stuff with metal, huh?? You're real strong!

[grandstanding]

[Erik nods, straightening back up to stand. This is a surreal conversation.]

That's correct. [Both parts.] It's what I'm doing in here, at the moment.

[throwsdown]

[He focuses back on what Erik's doing, the child-like curiosity returning, fuzzing out the more solemn and serious tone he'd had moments before. As much as he is mature for his age, there are things children can't help. Like a sudden innocent interest in cool science stuff.]

Can I see?

[grandstanding]

You can look, but you can't touch.

[Lifting his hand, he raises a piece of metal out of the chemical bath it's sitting in.] I'm stripping them of the moon's poison.

[throwsdown]

[...! He leans in a bit, but listens. No touch.]

You can help them get the poison off?

[grandstanding]

The chemicals in here can. But it would also strip your skin off if you touched it.

[throwsdown]

[He makes a face; yikes.]

Sounds like how acid rivers work!

[grandstanding]

It's a form of acid, so yes... [Rivers, though? Just what has this kid seen in his tiny life.]

[throwsdown]

[He makes a face. Bleugh.]

I hate acid rivers.

They mess up your clothes!

[grandstanding]

Have you been in an acid river?

[throwsdown]

Mmmm, no, I never been in one! But I got grabbed by a monster in a acid river once...!

[grandstanding]

Oh. [That's it. 'Oh.' Because what else can he say to that?] You've had a rather eventful life. [Distantly, it makes him somewhat morose. The boy is too young for any of this, if half of what he's saying is true. And proof of it still reverberates through the magnetic item lodged in Takeshi's head.]

[throwsdown]

[He nods, because he's 85% sure he knows what 'eventful' means.]

Yeah, guess so! I've fought lots of monsters before.

I think lots of kids would be really surprised by the real stuff that's out here!