Past Tense ((open))

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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:44 pm

"That must have sucked growing up."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Mon Jan 07, 2019 3:28 am

"...a little bit," she winces.

"I mean, I don't know what you saw but... yeah."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Jan 07, 2019 5:54 pm

"Car crash, pipes bursting... You know. Stuff. It looked beautifully improbable though." she tries to amend it.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Mon Jan 07, 2019 6:24 pm

"Oh, what I do isn't that spectacular. Most of the time? For something that big to happen there's usually something already wrong."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:28 pm

"But it's still... Like... something that shouldn't happen. I don't know how else to describe it. It's an... impossibility? It looks incredible. Aside from... what actually happens..."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:33 pm

"Lots of things have little weaknesses. They look plenty strong to the naked eye."

"Until suddenly, they aren't."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:42 pm

"Yeah but that's not supposed to be, like, reality. Or causality or whatever." she chuckles.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:44 pm

"The way it was explained to me, it's stuff that could happen at any time. I just kind of... lean on the scale?"
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:57 pm

"That's not a super-power. That'd just be... doing a thing. If it's stuff that could happen but doesn't then that means it's stuff that wouldn't happen otherwise. I dunno where they come from but it's making facets appear that weren't there before and as far as I can tell that's amazing."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:12 pm

"Facets? Is that how your power looks like to you?"
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:20 pm

"It's... like a broken mirror but the cracks are what's... It's hard to describe cause it doesn't really make any sense. It's like a dream with it's own weird logic? The facets are in the cracks and the forks are part of the impact that send them outwards but then each fork has it's own point of impact and it's like the mirror in the mirror in the mirror in the mirror..."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:25 pm

"That sounds like the weird quantum shite they tried to explain to me about my power."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:39 pm

Nailah kind of shrugs. "No one's poked and prodded me about this I don't think, so I dunno. But when I looked for you in the future there were all kinds of... warbles. That's a technical term I just made up cause I don't think there's a word for it yet."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:41 pm

"Lesson learned, I guess. Just need to not try to look ahead when I'm nearby."

"Unless you like seeing explosions," she smirks.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:45 pm

"I do though. I mean... generally. Explosions that is." she feels like she has to explain for some reason.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:48 pm

"Then maybe we should hang out more, huh?"
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:57 pm

"Sure! You wanna tag along for a run?"
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Tue Jan 08, 2019 5:29 pm

"Depends on how slow you're taking it since your leg healed," she chuckles.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Tue Jan 08, 2019 7:21 pm

"Dunno. I was just gonna see how it goes, maybe stretch my wings since it's not too cold."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Tue Jan 08, 2019 7:24 pm

"I'm definitely not going to be able to follow you there, but we can see how out of shape I am."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Tue Jan 08, 2019 7:48 pm

"I'll try to take it easy on you." she smirks and takes of running.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Tue Jan 08, 2019 7:50 pm

"If you re-break anything it's totally not my fault!" She calls after Nailah, running after the sphinx.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:38 am

"It's fiiiine." she shouts back, although she's not breaking out into a full sprint either. "If it doesn't hurt then it's probably healed."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:40 am

"Probably, huh? That's a loaded word talking to me."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:44 am

"Dang, you can make people fail so hard at taking a step they break a limb? That's hardcore."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:54 am

"If they broke their leg recently."

"And are really lousy at checking in at the med center to see if they should be running,"

A slow, sly grin is spreading across Janice's lips.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:08 am

"Hey. Neither for all you or I know I could have gotten checked out yesterday!"
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:46 am

"Did you, though?"

She's only half-teasing, by the sound.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:54 am

"It's a mystery to everybody."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:55 am

"...oh dammit, if you fall down they're never going to believe that I didn't do it."
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:13 am

"How would I know you didn't?"
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:17 am

"Why would I even do that? That'd be awful!"
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Haley Crusek » Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:13 am

Haley was trying to improve her multitasking and concentration on multiple things as she walked directly into the path of the two joggers, head buried in her phone and four bottles of water floating in the air, circling her torso in a surprisingly steady orbit.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:36 am

"I'm just---" Saying? Kidding? Whatever she meant to say, looking back over her shoulder at Janice, she's interrupted by running straight into Haley and her ring of bottled water. With a startled scream she goes tumbling.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:38 am

"Oh geez, oh geez, oh geez..."

"I didn't do that!" She shouts, scrambling to try to help them up.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Haley Crusek » Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:59 am

Haley let out a surprised shriek as she was bowled over by her partner in crime-fighting and reflexively tried to keep the bottles from falling all over them as they tumbled to the ground in a comically suggestive pose. Unfortunately the TK grasp mostly served to squeeze the water bottles hard enough to make them pop and drench them.

It was *really* cold water, as she'd been outside for quite some time.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:44 am

Nailah leaps up and backwards with an almost instinctive beating of her wings and lets out a high-pitched "Eeep!" It's not entirely clear if it's because of how she's sprawled across Haley or because part of her leg and most of her tail suddenly got splashed with ice-cold water, enough to soak through fur and matting it against her skin.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Janice Gilbertson » Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:50 am

Janice goes stumbling backwards and soon is ass-over teakettle as the girl she was trying to help up goes careening into her.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Haley Crusek » Fri Jan 11, 2019 3:55 am

“Holy shit that is cold!” she shrieked as she scrambled to her feet.

“Nai, I am so sorry!” Haley said as she took stock of what had just happened.
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Re: Past Tense ((open))

Postby Nailah Weaver » Fri Jan 11, 2019 4:16 am

Nailah's flap backwards slaps Janice across the face with her wings before she lands on her feet, although she almost collapses from her leg shivering.

"No kidding! Where the heck did you come from!?"
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