brockton bay, meet glam

[mxglam]

It's the anniversary. Glam would very much not like to celebrate.

It’s their last day on Winslow High - they’re being transferred to Arcadia on Monday - and also their last day without a patrol schedule assigned.

And the PRT released a small announcement on its website about Glam joining the Wards. Now their wiki page doesn’t get erased, of course - they’re no longer speculative. They wonder what it’s got on them.

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[alicornucopia]

"She's not my friend," snorts Boots.

[mrglam]

"Acquaintance?" He shrugs. "It'd be nice if you were friends. She's great."

[alicornucopia]

"She sure thinks so," snorts Boots.

[mrglam]

Shrug. "I can't comment on whether she thinks so," he says, because he has never asked her about it. He could probably hazard a guess about her beliefs on the matter. "But well, it's true. You'd probably like her if you got to know her."

[alicornucopia]

"She thinks she's better than everybody."

[mrglam]

"I don't think that's true." Not everybody surely. "She's just... shy's not the best word, but she's not super sociable in general and doesn't really go out of her way to interact with other people. Kinda like the literal opposite of me, there."

[alicornucopia]

"She does though. She shouldn't even be alive and she acts like she's so perfect."

[mrglam]

Blink. "She... what?"

[alicornucopia]

James looks around to see if there's anyone in earshot.

The place is deserted, but he lowers his voice anyway, "You know they usually just real quietly kill anybody who triggers during a Simurgh attack dose or no dose."

[mrglam]

"Simurgh attack."

[alicornucopia]

"She was in London," nods James.

[mrglam]

"How do you know this?"

[alicornucopia]

"I was already a Ward when she came in and her dad teleported in and she had some random T-shirt she found on the ground over her face and she was crying and holding a cell phone she'd tinkered into calling him over from wherever he was to get her. The timing was exactly right and Transit had been on vacation to England and everything."

[mrglam]

"...at least she's immune to the Simurgh," he says lamely.

[alicornucopia]

"She wasn't before she got her powers."

[mrglam]

"Yeah. Uh." He decides he's not comfortable taking about her to James anymore. "...I triggered in New York, ten years ago."

[alicornucopia]

"That was Behemoth, that's different."

[mrglam]

"I know. I was just... making conversation." Pause. "And she still goes to Simurgh fights," he murmurs mostly to himself in wonder.

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah, 'cause she's immune. Supposedly."

[mrglam]

He has personal evidence that she probably is, in addition to the extensive amounts of testing the Protectorate's performed, but he doesn't mention that.

"I was mostly talking about not being... I'd probably flashback if I went to a Behemoth fight."

[alicornucopia]

"You'd what?"

[mrglam]

"Flashback. Like, there'd be all these details that would remind me of New York and the memories would be going through my mind all the time. I'm... kinda terrified of even thinking about going to a Behemoth fight."

[alicornucopia]

"Oh." Pause. "So don't."

[mrglam]

"I-" He'd been thinking it, that he wouldn't be able to, that he oughtn't, but... "I can hurt him. I can build another gun, like the one I used on Leviathan, but better. If- if I could spare someone of even one second of that, then... I think I will."

[alicornucopia]

James nods.