Not My Problem

by **Laura Weston** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 10:28 pm

"They do good work," she agrees.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 10:41 pm

"Doesn't sound like a bad gap year, all told."

by **Laura Weston** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 10:53 pm

"It wasn't. I graduated a little early and this university wasn't an option at the time, so it filled in the time nicely."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:01 pm

"Oh, so you're the one whose notes I'll want to borrow," she smirks.

by **Laura Weston** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:06 pm

"It was only a little early. School in Quebec is different from some of the other provinces."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:24 pm

"Well the alternative is that I ask you to teach me the ways of poutine, but that's probably a lost cause in the UK."

by **Laura Weston** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:27 pm

"It would certainly be a pale shadow," she says with a grave nod.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:36 pm

"It's not fair. We invented cheddar."

by **Laura Weston** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:42 pm

"You once ruled a good chunk of the world as well, but past accomplishments tend to fade away. Ours is an ongoing perfection," she grins.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:18 pm

"Well then, I guess I don't have to tell you where the good kebab places are in town..."

by **Laura Weston** » Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:49 pm

"Of course you don't *have* to..." She grins, "But it would be super nice if you did."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:31 pm

"Hey guys!" Nailah says as she sits down at the table, a plate of food and a brown envelope on her tray. With her memory of who she's met before being unreliable she seems to have settled on treating everyone as if she knows them to err on the side of not upsetting people she's met. Of course, in turn that makes it awkward when she doesn't. "What's up?"

by **Laura Weston** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:36 pm

Laura seems to roll with it after just a moment's uncertainty. Maybe she knows Janice, after all. "Not a whole lot. What's up with you?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:42 pm

"Not much. First day without the cast! I think." she says, sticking her leg out the side of the table and stretching her foot so her claws poke out for a moment.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:20 pm

"You... think?" Janice says with a perplexed look.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:22 pm

"Yeah. Oh, guess we haven't met yet, huh? I'm Nailah. I have some... memory issues."

by **Laura Weston** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:27 pm

"Sorry to hear that. I'm Laura," Laura says, "I'm new here. And this is Janice. She's my roommate."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:38 pm

"Oh, was that part of... getting hurt?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:50 pm

"Yeah..." she says, with a bit of a twinkle in her eyes when she does. "Totally worth it though." the twinkle spreads to her mouth as she grins. She grabs the envelope and pulls out a newspaper clipping. "Just got this today from a friend."

Mystérieux héros ailé sauve Lyon

the headline reads above a picture taken with a cellphone, showing Nailah standing on top of a public mailbox, holding up a tablet of some sort, wings spread wide and looking very dramatic as she's shouting something.

by **Laura Weston** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:59 pm

Laura looks at it and reads the headline, "That is pretty cool. Nice picture too." Then she tries to ask diplomatically, "Do you remember what happened there?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:03 pm

"Yeah! Most of it anyway. It was pretty messy and broke my brain a little, but I prefer this way of looking at it." she says, pointing at the article clipping.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:12 pm

"So I guess you've pretty much got 'Rawr, Birdcat!' powers?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:18 pm

"I'm a sphinx." she corrects Janice. "And I can see the future."

by **Laura Weston** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:22 pm

"You can see the future?" Laura says with a small amount of amazement.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:28 pm

"That seems like... weirdly specific."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:29 pm

"Well... futures. It's a bit like looking into one of those tubes full of mirrors and colors. Dunno if I'd call it specific."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:41 pm

"No I mean like... wings, paws, and seeing the future. Like you got a whole sphinx package."

"But I guess I'm sort of your arch-nemesis."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:45 pm

"Huh... yeah. Never really thought about it, but lots of powers got kind of a theme to them, don't they? What's yours?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:45 pm

"Probability manipulation," she grins.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:47 pm

"Oh shoot! I've fought someone like that once. It was cuh-razy!" she laughs.

by **Laura Weston** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:07 pm

"Sounds like you do the hero thing a lot."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:15 pm

"Yeah. I want to be a super-hero one day." she nods.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:20 pm

"Must've been a real bummer when you got benched. I've never really been able to make my power really... action-y."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:33 pm

"Don't really remember most of it, so..." she shrugs with a smile. "What kinda probabilities do you manipulate? Flip a coin to always come up heads? Bounce a bullet off three things to disarm a thug around a corner? Find a rope when you really need one to rappel down from a roof?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:38 pm

"So far what I can manage is nudging things to go wrong."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:52 pm

"How wrong? Like making somebody slip on a banana-peel?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 8:06 pm

"Well it tends to vary by just... er... how complex something is? That tends to open up 'what can go wrong' considerably."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 8:19 pm

"So, like... mess with something that's already there. Man, that's a crazy power... Does it work on stuff you don't know is there?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 8:21 pm

"Kinda? But it's... way safer to actually aim it."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 8:42 pm

"Safer? Is it dangerous to use?"

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