"Kids? Multiple? I assume you're talking about Mussolini, given Hirohito was already explicitly descended from a deity."

"Mussolini, yeah. Also Tojo, the gods don't have many kids in Japan but they did start having any after the Meiji Restoration."

"I would expect that to be embarrassing for him but I don't know enough about Shinto theology as it existed during WWII to be sure."

Raven shrugs.

"Anyways, do you guys have self-driving cars that work for interstate travel? Because this is reminding me how I'd really like to get to go on more road trips."

"Do we have the capability? Yes. Have we actually made enough yet that any random warrior can requisition one for a vacation? Not yet."

"Sad!!! IDK, maybe whatever experimental drugs you guys end up giving me will make me safe to drive."

"Huh, why aren't you safe to drive now, is it a coordination thing? We have some stuff to steady the hands and some stuff to speed the reflexes, but you'll have to cycle through a few to find one that works for whichever problem you have without making the other of those worse, or if it's both to find a combination that doesn't cancel itself out or have nasty side effects. The gods made us a twitchy lot for a reason, it's hard to improve on their tradeoffs."

"Both, I think. It's like, on the one hand, as you saw before I have a really strong startle reflex, but also like, I think the other part is that I have trouble noticing or remembering where objects are? Like, I also have trouble finding things when I don't remember exactly where I left them, and I think it's the same underlying thing. I guess with a car some of the objects are moving which makes it way easier for me, but still not safe, especially considering I legitimately find wearing a seatbelt to be akin to a straitjacket. If I'm actively aware I'm in a dangerous situation, like I'm holding something sharp or fragile, I can kind of counteract this, but it requires a level of mental exertion that I don't think would be sustainable for me to do every day."

"That actually sounds like something normal mortal stimulants might help with, have you ever tried Ritalin or Vy—wait, right, you don't trust doctors and the mortal government are a bunch of Nazis who won't let you try those by informed consent.

What's the problem with the medical profession, is it just that you've met a lot of us who are monsters or is there more to it than that?"

"I've had some bad personal experiences, particularly with the kind that can actually force you to take meds rather than just not letting you. But I'm suspicious of them in general, though I have heard the structure of the field is abusive to the doctors themselves as well as the patients. A lot of things are like that."

"My medical training wasn't abusive to me, but it probably would've qualified as such to, like, a normal person who wanted to have things going on in their life besides medicine."

"Hey, can you do minor surgery? Because among various other medical problems I've been ignoring for ages because of my fear of doctors, I have this lump on my shoulder that's been there for ages and doesn't hurt or anything, so it's probably not cancer, but I should still probably have it removed."

"General surgery is my specialty, actually! Everyone pushed me to go into infectious diseases because of my magical power, but I thought my dextrous hands are actually the advantage that would let me have more fun and save more lives, and so far I think I've been proven right.

I like to think of myself as a repair mechanic for the machine that is the human body."

"Do you know if whatever the thing is will rot away once it's out of my body, or can I keep it and put it in a jar or something?" Best to be upfront with her disgustingness if she is gonna end up with any of these ladies.

"I'd wanna examine it once removed to figure out exactly what's going on with it, and then we could talk about what kind of decay processes it's likely to undergo and discuss preservation options!"

Raven and Lauren look unbothered. Gwen makes a bit of a face, but Katie might not be able to see it as Gwen is still the one driving.

"Anyways, I haven't tried stimulants because I already struggle to consume enough calories to sustain myself and I hear they make you worse at that and I don't want to starve to death."

"That's a risk it's well worth planning for, I would certainly not recommend continuing with one if you're losing weight. It's not nearly universal, though; I actually gained weight when I started because I would actually remember to eat."

"Hey, me too! Except for me it was less about remembering to eat and more about not feeling like shit all the time and thus wanting to."

"Yeah, for me it's kind of a mix of both of those things. Often I'll be so focused on a task that I don't eat until I finish it and suddenly realize I'm starving, and then I don't have the energy to procure myself a meal." The mention of them gaining weight has her considerably flustered. She struggles to maintain her composure.

"Bet that won't be a problem for you anymore, now that you're on our team! It was a thing of the past for me as soon as I met Raven."

Raven has a hypothesis. It's not based on very many data points yet, but her intuition on these things very rarely steers her wrong, and she has an easy test that would at worst result in some momentary minor cringe.

"Yeah, she's right. There's no way a tiny little thing like you is gonna get away with hanging around me without eating enough to grow up big and strong."

And even if it turns out to be a mistake to say it like that, it's not incorrect to observe that that girl really needs to eat more. So there.

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Katie.exe has stopped responding. "I, uh, wow, I mean, that's really sweet of you. I hope you're telling the truth, Labyrinth crawling probably burns a lot of calories." She's suddenly much more aware of how big Raven's tits are, but is heroically resisting the urge to act on this information. She's probably just being motherly in a platonic way, lots of women are like that.