It's a long ride from Kansas to North Carolina. She's staked a claim to the rear of the bus and spends it there, cuffed hands well out of sight.
Occasionally, she dozes, drifting in and out of consciousness as the noise of the road and quiet murmurs of other passengers break against her perception like waves on a beach. This is the closest to relaxed that she's come in... a while.
"Haven't heard of a teleporter than can go that far. But no one's been able to get hardly anything into orbit since the Simurgh showed up. She'll go after any ship you try to build."
"Depends. Either show up and smash it directly, show up and let the heroes smash it trying to drive her off, or manipulate some poor asshole into smashing it five years after they were exposed to her song."
"How she influences the world. It's not a song, really, just a kind of- noise. Gets in your head. She uses her precog to figure out what makes you tick, what your triggers are. Sets up dominoes."
"Then I imagine no one will object if one stops existing - there's multiple?"
"The Simurgh, Leviathan, and Behemoth. And they're unkillable. People have been trying for twenty years."
"Nothing's unkillable in the end," she says, though something in her voice sounds... Sad. "Even if it's stood for millennia."
Grin. "I'll save the incredibly ambitious clean up projects for when I'm better oriented to this world, how about."
She stirs just enough to make the handcuffs visible.
"Can you get these off?"
She focuses intently on the cuffs (the Keres gets the impression of a flinch, even though her face didn't really reflect one).
- And each cuff breaks in half.
"Hah."
She smirks, flexes her wrists. Tucks the broken metal away.
She stays still for a long moment, expression unreadable and distant.
Then: "Ah."
"Questions of law and punishment are... Complicated - but you shouldn't be chained."
Small smile.
"I doubt it's possible for you to have committed as many crimes as I have, so - I'm not in any position to point fingers."
"But these days... Violence is something I disprefer needing to resort to."
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