behemoth, meet the opposition

[mrglam]

Sadde doesn't seem quite able to focus on homework at the moment. He's fidgeting, and sometimes stares off into space for long periods of time before James has to snap him out of it.

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[thinkering]

Lorica catches it and puts it back on. "That sounds almost like a safety - if you rewound somebody's outfit and it had previously been somewhere they were now intersecting - can you get anything to appear intersected with anything else under other circumstances?"

[peterxy]

"No. The colors disappear if there's something in the way. Or, not disappear, but just, um, the part of them that's... in the way? Like..." She stands up then starts gesturing around to indicate the places Lorica had been. "If I put something here," she says, occupying one of those places, "then I can't rewind you so you'd be in this specific place, but I can rewind you before or after this."

[thinkering]

"But air's fine. If I... blow up a balloon... then I assume you rewind it as a unit? Would the air rewind back into my lungs or would that be blocked off?"

[peterxy]

Shrug. "Dunno. Never tried that."

[thinkering]

"Do you know how you work underwater?"

[peterxy]

"Newp."

[thinkering]

"Well, I know what we're doing when we block out some time for power testing, then."

[peterxy]

"Sounds cool!"

[thinkering]

"It'll be fun. Do I seem odd to your power in any way at all that might mean I don't make a good example, besides the fact that I remember it?"

[peterxy]

She squints. "No, not really. I mean, it's really weird that you remember it, but the colors work the same way."

[thinkering]

"Okay, good, no need to comb the other Wards for people willing to experimentally lose memories. Me and robots and balloons."

[peterxy]

"And water!"

[thinkering]

"Yep! Ooh - if you rewind someone who's been, say, shot, does the bullet appear in motion again or just pop into place where it was with no momentum and fall?"

[peterxy]

"If I don't rewind it far back enough that the bullet hadn't been shot yet, it'll be in motion."

[thinkering]

"It'd require very good reaction time to make tactical use of that but it's good to know."

[peterxy]

"Mmhm."

[thinkering]

"Make a note of anything else you want to test. For now, we've had a long day, and I bet you could use a nap or something."

[peterxy]

Pause. "Uh, yeah, actually. Wow I'm tired, I didn't even notice that."

[thinkering]

"It'll sneak up on you."

[peterxy]

"Mmhm. Yeah, I'm gonna."

[thinkering]

"Sleep well."

And Lorica leaves her be.

[msglam]

A few days later, Glam is loitering in Lorica's workshop, as, you know, one does. She's upside down, which is slightly more unusual, except not for her. She's reading a book.

"So. Got anything planned for today? I don't have patrolling scheduled 'til night."

[thinkering]

"Power testing with Rewind this afternoon."

[msglam]

She closes the book, using a finger to mark the page. "Ooh! Sounds interesting. What are you gonna test?"

[thinkering]

"How she works underwater and whether the limit's exactly ten minutes and stuff with blowing up balloons and anything else that's occurred to her."