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Rescue in Nuime
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"And it's just... something that happens, some people get powers sometimes?"

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She nods, then shrugs.

"Not sure. Could be a reason."

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"Do the powers ever go away like yours did?"

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She shakes her head.

"Sometimes change - Eidolon, famous for that. And, some powers stop powers. Both rare; none like this."

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"So probably that happened because you came here..."

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Thoughtful silence.

 

After a few minutes: "Do you need anything?"

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She considers, and then, cautiously: "...food?"

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"Okay, I can get food."

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"Thanks."

She sits quietly.

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He goes, he gets food, he comes back. Takes about five minutes. The food is assorted buns with stuff in them.

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..takes a little while for her to look up. She still isn't looking at him.

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...this is starting to look like there's yet another weird thing going on here, but... well, at least now there's food.

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Sure does, yup. Though this isn't the first time he's seeing this combination of tenseness and passivity.

After another few seconds she looks at him - not eye contact, not even close, just kind of checking on him.

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Okay...

"...I can leave this with you and go in the other room if you want?"

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"No." Wow, she's never responded that quickly before. "No. No, I- No. No." She gets progressively calmer as she talks, goes back to looking at her hands as the outburst stops.

 

"I'll be okay, just... need a minute." But she doesn't actually pause before reaching for a bun.

Her hand is shaking too badly for this to quite work. She grabs the wrist with her other hand and that steadies it enough to manage.

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...okay, then he'll just. Sit here quietly, he supposes. That seems like a reasonably safe thing to do.

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Sitting there quietly seems to be a good idea. She sits there looking at the bun for a little bit, checks what he's doing, and then nibbles at it.

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Sitting quietly.

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She makes her way through the bun, slowly, checking on him frequently. When she's done with it she looks assessingly (and still very nervously) at the plate and then at him.

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Sitting quietly. Slightly confused about what is going on here.

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She takes another bun. She's slightly less cautious about eating this one, but much more concerned with his reaction afterward.

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Sitting quietly, still slightly confused, starting to get a little sleepy.

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She decides that the third bun is not worth the risk.

 

"Go to bed?"

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"Yeah I think I'll do that. G'night. Sorry."

He goes to the other room.

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