"I only tried to murder two people!" Damara complains facetiously, "One of them just doesn't have feeling from the dick down and the other one got healed by her girlfriend somehow after I turned her to cheese. And that fire was totally justified anyway, the fucking school was condemned."

"Wow, you didn't even successfully kill anyone. That is a good track record, by Harry's standards. Kind of a shitty one by ours, but there's time yet."

"Not for lack of trying, I still want to know how that bitch came back to life. I'm pretty sure I heard air coming out of the holes in her lungs but the next day I saw her looking just fine. Then she saw me and screamed. Fun times."

"It happens to the best of us."

"Maybe we should get a healer on our team for this. Her being scared of me was more fun then the actual kill."

"We've got a healer. You traumatized it. They're mostly an auxiliary, but they're around."

"I won't make it watch then, not unless they piss me off anyway."

"Mercy's got a stomach for gore, don't worry. Wouldn't be a very good healer if it didn't. It gouged my eye out with its thumb in a sim once, it was great."

"How strong is it? They were like a second away from hitting me with their wings."

"It's only an Ex-2, so if it was punching you it'd feel like you were getting hit by an Olympic-level athlete. Those wings are serious fucking business, though, they could break you like a twig. I recommend staying the fuck away from those things."

"They were nice to touch. Its got some history getting touched in places it doesn't like."

"Yep. Congratulations on being very, very creepy and making a really nice person feel bad. Please don't be mean to Sky. Feel free to be worse to me to compensate."

"They'll get over it," Damara says with her normal current level of concern for the feelings of others. "If it doesn't like me then they can ask me to stop or punch me in the face. One is better at stopping me then the other."

"I'll let them know. Would a one-on-one sim fight be an acceptable setting for a punch in the face to establish dominance, or do you need it in meatspace?"

"As long as it hurts, there is no point otherwise."

"It'll hurt like hell, it just won't do any permanent damage. Tap-out or to the death?"

"Their choice, I won't tap out. No matter what happens I will leave that sim laughing."

"To the death, then. Sky'll probably be alright with you, honestly, they're good at taking the good in people. They just opened nice when they should have opened hard. This is a pretty good opportunity to see how you are in a fight, really. We've got sim time on Saturdays, we'll set something up tomorrow. And maybe we can arrange a Dark Phoenix, those are always fun."

"What even are those? Dark Phoenix, is that a reference to those American comics they made bad animes of?"

"Yep. Basically it's a sim for when one of your team members goes evil and gets a massive power boost, and the rest of the team has to try to take them down. We had one for Ariel a while back where she absorbed the Magus Force and found the remnants of the Champion Force and decided that she was going to take over the wooooooorld. That was great."

"She killed us all in literally under a minute."

"And it was badass!"

"I want in on that... what would I even be like with a power boost? I could probably make loops where I'd be in maybe 40 places at once."

"Eh, you'd still need a big gun to pose a credible threat to Ariel. Maybe they'd give you TK or mage powers or something."

"You're sure your only power's the time shit? You don't have, like, energy blasts or telekinesis or anything?"