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Tree branch: check. Assorted lightweight seed-bearing fruits and nuts: check. Other seeds: check. Water bottle, for when she has to veer away from the river: check.
Better not linger in her starting place too much longer. Yellow's faster than her and may have already come home to a wreck. Thorn might have a habit of checking up on the place, even, just in case. She's invisible, inaudible, unsmellable - that won't help if he sends someone thorough. Or comes in person.
She sets out.
She's been flying for about thirty minutes after her shopping trip when she falls through a tear and squeaks inaudibly and lands in the middle of -
imeanforever
imeanforever
"Unless you have another flattener in here you need to leave the irradiated area before I walk out or your spell will shred."
wormcan
"That's acceptable; I reactivated my own shielding." The whirring stops. "And the emitters have stopped making things worse."
imeanforever
"Okay."
Promise goes back to her room.
And then, between tasks... she goes to Fairyland, takes several cuttings of her tree, and goes traipsing through the gate chain and plants them near all the amenable locations. (Not the ocean or the lava flows.) Just in case.
Promise goes back to her room.
And then, between tasks... she goes to Fairyland, takes several cuttings of her tree, and goes traipsing through the gate chain and plants them near all the amenable locations. (Not the ocean or the lava flows.) Just in case.
wormcan
The PRT doesn't ask her to do any more cape business for a while. They're delaying until they've judged that enough time has gone by that any immediate plan depending on the E88 being messed with will have failed to materialize.
In the meantime, she receives a notification that Canary has been acquitted. Apparently the jury believed her side of the story when she told them. She's visiting Brockton Bay again and would like to talk to Promise, as a free person this time.
In the meantime, she receives a notification that Canary has been acquitted. Apparently the jury believed her side of the story when she told them. She's visiting Brockton Bay again and would like to talk to Promise, as a free person this time.
imeanforever
Promise prefers to limit the extent to which she goes anywhere crowded, but if Canary would like to suggest a mutually accessible rooftop she's amenable.
wormcan
Rooftops are not normally something mortals rate by accessibility, but she finds one and suggests a time.
imeanforever
Promise's laptop keeps time! Between that and the mortal world's regular day cycle (her current home is typically sunrise) she almost has a schedule. This time is fine with her. She is there then.
imeanforever
"You're welcome. I really don't like that they send people there. For accidental harm in particular - well."
wormcan
"Believe me, I don't either. I always thought it was the worst of the worst, and people they can't hold any other way, not just anyone with a power they're afraid of."
imeanforever
"Me-friendly laws about imprisoned parahumans. They wanted Nilbog locked up badly enough to do it my way."
imeanforever
"They had his name. I didn't get all of his creatures, though, so I had to be a little delicate to get him out more-or-less willingly. He doesn't know he's locked up and thinks he isn't using his powers because it would be impolite to do so on a diplomatic detachment. ...I cannot directly affect beliefs. He was just crazy."
wormcan
Canary smiles and laughs.
"That's much better than it could have gone. I thought they treated me unfairly, but everyone's been scared of him since I was a kid."
"That's much better than it could have gone. I thought they treated me unfairly, but everyone's been scared of him since I was a kid."
imeanforever
"Okay. For future reference I'm not very good at judging mortals' ages. And while I don't exactly forget that you are a species that has children, I don't have a good sense of the ways in which that is relevant to mortal adults."
wormcan
"Anyway, what I came to ask is, since I'm not on trial any more,
do you think you could take off the order about letting me sing? I can make sure never to make the same mistake again..."
This is possibly unconvincing, given that she did it twice and Promise was there for the second one.
do you think you could take off the order about letting me sing? I can make sure never to make the same mistake again..."
This is possibly unconvincing, given that she did it twice and Promise was there for the second one.
imeanforever
"If you're not sure and can find someone who wants it tested on them I'll allow the test, and if you don't work through recordings you can make recordings with appropriate precautions. Otherwise... the only person you can sing to without affecting them is me. Which I don't object to as long as no one else is around... and I'd let you sing when you're alone... but you'd need to be sure there was no one else there, so we'd need to come up with a wording for how you'd have to go about making sure. I suppose I could relax it a little if you can only compel potentially regrettable behavior by... phrasing things as imperatives? What's the actual dividing line?"