[Social] Room 127: Brick House meets Stonewall

[Jezabelle Sherlock]

"Never underestimate the Western world's ability to be completely oblivious of any country outside of their scope. Or she can always take the Clark Kent approach. Do you know what happens to Superman when he's Clark Kent and people see him without his glasses?"

[Nika Novak]

"She turns into gold. People are going to put two and two together. Tabloids are going to catch on. You may not have noticed but Royal Families garner a little bit of attention in this country still. She doesn't have a secret identity."

[Jezabelle Sherlock]

"Hmm, we could try a domino mask. Those always work."

[Nika Novak]

"This is exactly why I think you're a bad influence. You're not taking this serious in the slightest."

[Jezabelle Sherlock]

"Well I'm just saying, is she the only person out there who turns to a golden colour? Sometimes letting the conspiracy theorists find the truth helps cover it up." She waved her hands around in mock excitement. "Oh wow! You turn bright gold just like that princess from Symkaria!" And then she wiggled and adopted a very upright posture, mimicking Katarina's mannerisms. "Oh, really? That's interesting. Thank you."

Jez assumed her usual slouching posture with a little pomf on the bed. "I guess I'll I'm saying is that sometimes you can dismiss an idea without denying it, and it actually works better that way. When people see Clark Kent without his glasses they go 'Wow! You look just like Superman!' and he goes 'huh, really?' or 'yeah, people tell me that all the time'. But people are surprisingly willing to dismiss things as being a coincidence. The princess of Symkaria, here in England? Eating a hamburger? Fighting crime? Preposterous."

[Nika Novak]

"Okay first of all, she is not going to be fighting crime. That is out of the question. And if Clark Kent also started flying around and firing lasers from his eyes that ploy would fall apart real fast. Please do not base the future of my country on your comic-book logic."

[Jezabelle Sherlock]

"Well, I guess the princessness gives her an excuse to wear a cape anyway, so maybe fighting crime IS redundant." Jez mused aloud.

"So, what is it that you're more afraid of from all of this? That someone will attack her here if they learn about her? Because she should really be using an alias then shouldn't she?"

[Nika Novak]

"Yes! She really should have. Which is what I told her, but she has final say."

[Jezabelle Sherlock]

"Well, I guess she's pretty lucky to be nigh-invulnerable then. Very handy."

[Jezabelle Sherlock]

There was a bit of an awkward silence from Jez before she said anything else.

"I'm... sorry. For what I said before."

[Nika Novak]

Nika makes a vaguely appreciative grunt.

"You're not awful. Just a little... too optimistic."

[Jezabelle Sherlock]

Jez smiled. "I'm willing to accept that flaw. It lets me think that instead of just tolerating each other, I might as well shoot for becoming friends."

[Nika Novak]

Nika rolls her eyes, but a little less aggressively and she flops back onto her bed in what cold almost be called a casual manner.