[ She takes a seat and downs some water, not stopping until the glass is empty of every last drop. Her throat still feels parched, and she reaches for the glass of wine next.
It's probably a bad decision, but she needs something to sate this. With the wine in hand, she also starts on the vegetables, all the while listening as Grant mentions family. And... aliens? ]
I-- ... I guess? I haven't really given it any thought.
[He withdraws before looking to his comrade who raises his hands - and the table raises three feet before he sets it down gently without disturbing the dishes.
Hive smiles and nods to Dawn.] Something like that.
[ There's confusion on her face. He doesn't know. She doesn't know. ] Let it out?
[ Like it's just that easy. It's never that easy. She closes her eyes, trying to find something, anything, that seems different. Natural.
Behind her, the air starts to shimmer, like a heat mirage. The blur intensifies, and reality just... splits. The rip spreads, grows big enough that someone could step through it.
A thousand times yes. He looks enraptured for a heartbeat before his smile breaks out warm and he claps. Almost on cue the man in the corner claps too.]
[ When she focuses this time, the shimmer begins just to her left. An identical one appears across the wall, next to the guy who brought in the food. Just like the first time, the shimmers split. She puts her left hand through the rip...
..and it appears through the other one. ] I can at least do it within my field of sight.
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Date: 2016-04-04 05:28 am (UTC)It's probably a bad decision, but she needs something to sate this. With the wine in hand, she also starts on the vegetables, all the while listening as Grant mentions family. And... aliens? ]
I-- ... I guess? I haven't really given it any thought.
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Date: 2016-04-04 05:32 am (UTC)[There's the slightest probe to her mind, gentle, something like a tentacle almost, but it vanishes. He has to look for her ability.
Otherwise this is worthless.]
...I suppose a...practical demonstration is in order. However I must ask you not to be frightened.
[Not that she'd have a choice. He could tangle his tentacles in her mind.]
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Date: 2016-04-04 02:52 pm (UTC)But she does feel that mental touch. That, that does draw her look. ]
I.. can try?
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Date: 2016-04-04 03:12 pm (UTC)Hive smiles and nods to Dawn.] Something like that.
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Date: 2016-04-04 04:02 pm (UTC)[ She sounds a bit hopeful there. As if this is something that she's encountered before, something that she's experienced before. ]
So you're saying that that [ She tips her head to the side, indicating her emerging from the cocoon. ] causes something like that? I can do that?
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Date: 2016-04-04 05:28 pm (UTC)[He tilts his head and gestures] But you should be able to do whatever feels natural. Look deep inside yourself and just...
[He chuckles.] Let it out.
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Date: 2016-04-04 06:19 pm (UTC)[ Like it's just that easy. It's never that easy. She closes her eyes, trying to find something, anything, that seems different. Natural.
Behind her, the air starts to shimmer, like a heat mirage. The blur intensifies, and reality just... splits. The rip spreads, grows big enough that someone could step through it.
And then it just closes back up. ]
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Date: 2016-04-04 07:43 pm (UTC)A thousand times yes. He looks enraptured for a heartbeat before his smile breaks out warm and he claps. Almost on cue the man in the corner claps too.]
Beautiful. Wonderful.
Your heart told you to do that?
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Date: 2016-04-04 08:02 pm (UTC)It's... it's what I pictured in my head.
[ A portal. She's a key again. Did it ever really go away? ]
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Date: 2016-04-04 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-04-05 02:43 am (UTC)[ When she focuses this time, the shimmer begins just to her left. An identical one appears across the wall, next to the guy who brought in the food. Just like the first time, the shimmers split. She puts her left hand through the rip...
..and it appears through the other one. ] I can at least do it within my field of sight.