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telepathic phone - back to etraya

[sophielicious]

/Hey, Kell. It's me. You good over there?/

[kryptonix]

Yeah.

Why do you ask?

[sophielicious]

/Because everyone I know, or mostly everyone, got fucked over in this dumb mission.

So, might as well check./

(She is included in everyone.)

[kryptonix]

I made it out okay.

Did something happen?

cw torture mention

[sophielicious]

(She got kidnapped, study-tortured, watched someone she cares about get fucked up trying to get her, one of her own turned out to be the anomaly and died, their numbers decreased, she's spent half the time thereafter in diamond form so she doesn't fall apart, and there's probably even more there.

She's cool.)

/Nothing you gotta worry about, it's fine./

(Nope.)

/I did want to talk to you about something, though? I'm just surface-level here so I'm not really looking, are you busy?/

[kryptonix]

[ hmm. ]

No. I can pop over. Just ping me with a location

[ even an image will do. he'll spot it from the air. ]

[sophielicious]

(She's doing what she did when they were looking for the arcade. A pin shows in the distance, straight into her room in the girl's dormitory of the X-Mansion.)

/You can be normal and go through the front door, or the window's open. Whatever works for you./

[kryptonix]

Will I have to talk to anyone else if I use the door?

[sophielicious]

/No guarantees./

[kryptonix]

I'll take the window.

[ and it'll take him all of five seconds to arrive, clambering through. ]

[sophielicious]

(She knows how fast he can go, which means she isn't startled or anything. She's in lougewear, shorts, a crop top, a cardigan, and her hair not styled into curls but very, very straight, looking up from her game on her couch and putting it aside.)

No one can say you're not efficient. Hey, Kell.

[kryptonix]

Hey.

[ then he falters, no idea on how to proceed. an awkward silence follows before he clears his throat. ]

Uh. Nice room.

[sophielicious]

You're bad at this.

(At least she looks okay, she has makeup on, she's put together, she doesn't mind him seeing her in lounge. Her room is basically a pink/purple gamer girl dream, with LED lights, consoles, games, all that nice stuff.)

Thanks anyway. So, do you have more people from your world here?

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[thisisontherecord]

Hey, Kell-El. How are you holding up with the mission announcement we just got?

[kryptonix]

Fine?

Not having powers for a while is not so strange.

[thisisontherecord]

( this is oddly nice to hear at least One Metahuman Say )

Something you've had to contend with before, I take it?

[kryptonix]

It happens now and then. Especially on magic worlds.

[thisisontherecord]

Magic worlds having their own possible superseding logic?

I imagine the other line would be worlds without yellow suns.

[kryptonix]

That happens too.

Powers give us an edge. They're useful. And in a way, they do make us who we are.

This is just a roadbump.

[thisisontherecord]

( lois here going 'thank you for being reasonable and also experienced enough to know your powers are not the sum of who you are.' for the guy who insists he's a weapon only.

good work, kell-el. you're a whole person in there, and it's great to see. )

You've got a good head on your shoulders. Always nice having more of those around.

How does the massive shift in strength regulation work out for you?

[kryptonix]

[ it helps that he's done it before. nothing new for him. ]

As long as it's not permanent, I can wait it out.

[thisisontherecord]

( old hat versus her having two people going very new hat and unsure how to deal with it. )

Glad to hear it. You'll be keeping low key through all this vent nonsense?

[kryptonix]

Maybe lock myself in a room. Seems fine.

[thisisontherecord]

( feels like that may not be as smooth a hope as one might wish but hey, maybe it'll work out? that'd be great. she does not mention that star labs are apparently here with lockable rooms because that's still weird. )

Send a shout if you end up wanting a supply drop in the interim. Pretty sure I'll be running around to some degree, even just trying to help locate the vent.

[kryptonix]

On your own?