branding lady, meet meek little lamb

[mxglam]

Glam isn't allowed to actually patrol the following day (it's a Sunday), so they mostly browse the 'net and read books. Echo's busy with her family (and she is allowed to go out patrolling), and Lorica's... doing something.

They're slightly worried about the fact that Yates hasn't replied to their email, but it's the weekend, so maybe that's why.

Has she replied to the email by Monday?

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[thinkering]

"You were -?"

[mxglam]

"Boy-shaped, so to speak."

[thinkering]

"I stopped short of saying seven, actually."

[mxglam]

"Ah. Yes. I was. I think I did tell you I triggered ten years ago at some point."

[thinkering]

"'Ten' could have been rounding."

[mxglam]

"Wasn't." Pause. "Actually I think the anniversary's next week."

[thinkering]

"Jeez."

[mxglam]

"Actually, it's the 24th, the anniversary's the day after tomorrow."

[thinkering]

"I'm sorry."

[mxglam]

They sigh and shrug. "Other than the body-reflects-gender thing, it took me a long time to actually really understand what my power was."

[thinkering]

"It seems like it might be hard to figure out. You've got it really ramped up now though."

[mxglam]

"Yeah, there's a reason I didn't start going out in costume 'til recently. Had to be sure I had it under control and stuff. I actually waited a year after I had enough control to satisfy me before starting." Pause. "And it still wasn't enough to save that guy."

[thinkering]

Lorica pats them on the shoulder.

[mxglam]

Sigh.

[thinkering]

Sigh.

[mxglam]

"...it occurs to me that performing stress tests on my power while I'm wearing a costume and we're standing on a boat I conjured could've gone pretty badly if my power worked differently."

[thinkering]

"We can both fly."

[mxglam]

"My suit can fly, if it had disappeared I would not have been able to."

[thinkering]

"I could've caught you. Can you not swim?"

[mxglam]

"I can probably not drown, but I've never learnt how to forward crawl, no."

[thinkering]

"You went to a Leviathan fight and you can't swim. Glam."

[mxglam]

"Well I can still fly!"

[thinkering]

"And what if you'd tried to make a hundred boats for evac or something?"

[mxglam]

"Well, one, this turned out not to be a problem, but two, I wasn't planning on doing enough of that to push my power beyond what I'd already tried."

[thinkering]

"Ah."