#interlude 002

[darcyxpalmer]

Darcy -> you? maybe?

Darcy: any chance you found a tape of some kind recently? Darcy: asking for a friend

[darcyxpalmer]

status: closed with @tempestaslokni where: in the tunnel leading to the dead body of the mega-hornet

"I'm not fully sure how far we are from where we killed it," Darcy admitted as the two of them were getting t hrough the tunnels under the island? The ocean? She wasn't quite sure which part they were currently at, but they'd end up somewhere below the vulcano. Or close to it, at least.

"We were trying to get away from the mega-hornet, and so most of our focus was on making sure we kept our distance. Trying to figure out an actual way to either get rid of it or get us at least away from it."

Part of it was luck, really, the fact that they managed to get into the tunnel that led to them finding the magma pit, but everything else... it was a nice team work, between Tej and herself, which she enjoyed. She liked knowing that their powers were complementary in a way that they could be a pretty nice duo in situations like this.

"How are you doing, by the way? After-- well, after everything that recently happened? Have you recovered?"

[darcyxpalmer]

Darcy -> Lindi

Darcy: hello Lindiwe, i have a scientific question for you Darcy: when you are seeing people's auras, how specifically do you see things Darcy: like, is there something specific for, say, somebody who had an illicit affair?

[darcyxpalmer]

status: closed with @alexpanganiban where: wherever Alex is chilling at

It was all just so much so fast. The stinging and the memory, what happened with the mega hornet and Tej, the mass grave next to the medicenter... She couldn't deal with all of this all at once. She was amazing at compartmentalizing, though. For now, she was dealing with one thing she felt like she could - finding Alex.

"What the hell is that?!" she snapped the moment she found him, no greeting, no preamble, jumping right into things. "A mass grave?! And you couldn't even give some kind of warning?"

[darcyxpalmer]

status: closed with @zaidshair where: somewhere far away from the mass grave pit

"I need your help," was the first thing Darcy said to Zaid once she found him. Then took a pause, realized she probably should have started a step back and said, "Sorry, hello, how are you doing? I need your help if you're willing." There, that was somewhat better at least, right?

"You said you'd be interested in some practice for powers the last time, I still think we should do that, but I was thinking-- we should have a place where people can just go that is dedicated for this specifically. Something easy and small first and then long-term build something that can cater to specific powers we know people have so they can get better. We need to get better at them - if the hornets showed anything, if we can use them more instinctively, with more control, we can protect ourselves better."

Maybe others weren't thinking long-term, they probably didn't want to, but they would have to and this... this would be helpful, even if it's something that gets build slowly. "So... would you be interested in helping?"

[darcyxpalmer]

status: closed with @ash-johnson-stunts where: in the damn tunnel, just hoping not to find more dead bodies, really

Was this a good idea? Probably not.

Was it necessary? Darcy was not quite sure about it either.

Still, she was doing it anyway. Not alone, of course, Ash was with her and which, even though the two of them haven't really spent that much time together so far, was a comfort. As long as she wasn't alone in here, she could ignore the bodies they had to step over and left behind to get into this tunnel.

"I swear, if this leads to even more bodies..." Darcy muttered and then shook her head. "I don't even know. But damn, I hope it doesn't." Or they don't end up part of the pile, really, considering they didn't know just what got those people in the first place. "But I do wonder if some of these tunnels eventually lead into the lower levels of the medicenter somehow, through a door of some kind."