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They are in the lobby of the building. The way the two of them are acting does not give the impression that they are thinking particularly clearly.

The woman notices Lorica first.

"STAY BACK!!" she screams, brandishing a particularly long shard of broken glass at her.

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"I'm staying back! How about you let this guy get wherever he's trying to go, and I will exit the building altogether, and you can be by yourself."

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"YOU'RE WITH HIM!!"

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"No, I have no idea who he is! Sir, where are you trying to get to?"

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The man edges away from her, his eyes darting around wildly.

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"I don't think any of us want to be here. How about he leaves first, and then you and I can part ways, ma'am."

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The man startles at.. something, it's hard to tell what, and bolts for the door.

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As long as the woman doesn't chase him or anything!

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The woman seems to consider but decide against it.

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In that case she's going to give the guy a head start and then edge out of the building herself, eyes on the woman with the glass.

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She's a block away when she feels herself straining, her patch of roof getting too far from her regular body. It would probably be more comfortable if she just used her "moving her patch of roof" muscle or something.

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That's going to get so annoying!

She slows down, trying to figure out how much of an actual handicap this is.

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Her range is large enough and the process of changing her anchor instinctive enough that it's not a very noticeable issue.

That being said, the moving her anchor muscle is entirely distinct from her ability to choose a new anchor.

 

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Can she just - not have one, peel herself off the roof and not put herself down anywhere.

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Yeah she can do that. Feels uncomfortable though. Like her body is entirely in her body and nowhere else.

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THAT'S WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THOUGH?? Ugh. She will claim a chunk of asphalt by a bench and sit down; it's not like she knows where she's walking to.

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She can hear the occasional sound of screaming in the distance, and see strange lights in the sky a few blocks from her.

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Well, her current superpower, for some fucking reason, is to be one with the road. If it does anything else it is not obvious. Plus she doesn't even have her implants. So she's not very a superhero right now. She's gonna. Hang out.

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Things don't change much, at least for the next hour.

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She is going to spend this - downtime - poking her new power. She misses her old one real bad, but this one probably isn't just The Power To Identify An Incredibly Bizarre Amount With Concrete.

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She can anchor to things other than the ground, so long as it's big and solid enough. 

After anchoring herself to a nearby car she discovers she can move the things she's anchored to - levitating the car a foot off the ground.

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Oh! Okay. That's cool. Can she attach to smaller things? Can she move them fast? Precisely?

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The things can't be that small, the bench is the smallest she can find and she gets the sense that if it weren't have of metal it would be too light to be... part of her.

She can move her anchor pretty darn fast and with more precision than she can move the rest of her body (now that she lacks her implants anyways).

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Okay. Can she tell if she can rip the bench out of where it's bolted to the ground, without actually doing it?

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She could! It might hurt her? Or the bench. Which would be her during the ripping portion.

There are other people in this city who dare venture outside, evidently. Lorica can hear a group of them in the distance, voices indistinct but just possible to make out:

“So I end the world?  Interesting.” says a man's voice.

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