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[anobserver]

Um. I think I've learned how to use my Darkblood powers.

The only question now is how do I turn them off?!

[Nosferatmew and Mewnos: The Paws of Fate float on past the screen, each batcat not flapping its wings as a variety of other things in Lexi's bedroom float past Lexi, the batcats completely chill.

the batcats along with everything else in her bedroom, the remnants of a cocoon visible on the bed]

Looking for people who can also help me test the rest of my abilities, too. If not, I'll be back in the Satellite of Love tomorrow!

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[anobserver]

I guess. It's just that most people seem to hit the ground running with their blood abilities and I feel like I've been held back in comparison.

[a notion she detests, she's in competition for valedictorian of her year and she's going to win]

I hope so? I mean, this has got to be hilarious to people who aren't me, but at the same time how much patheticness do I have to display before I become too pathetic to function?

[givetheslip]

Well, if you need company in that regard, you have it. I've not done much with mine either.

[Is it because she can't control them or because she doesn't trust them? Perhaps a little of both.]

If anyone calls you pathetic to your face, give them a good crack in the nose. Everyone has to start somewhere and there's no cause to mock the inexperienced.

[anobserver]

Really? Which blood type do you have?

[when she was first told what she was capable of here, she'd been thrilled. it was like something out of a comic book. only to find herself struggling to access them and failing miserably]

Clearly, you've never been to East Highland. It's kind of a shithole little suburb and most people there are judgmental, stupid, or both.

[givetheslip]

Cold.

[Which she fully believes, given her response to the changing weather — which does not match her housemate's.]

I'm not familiar with it, no. I'm from England originally, but I came here from Cyprus.

[anobserver]

Really? That's probably the coolest--no pun intended--one.

[fire and ice and lightning. that was like. several X-Men all at the same time!]

Cyprus, really? Is it pretty there? I've heard of it, isn't it an island off of Greece?

[givetheslip]

If you say so.

[The non-intended pun does get a small smile, not that she'll admit it.]

It is. It's lovely, I think, but somewhat war-torn the last I saw it. Though that may change soon. I couldn't really say, now that I'm here.

[anobserver]

[Lexi loves bad puns]>

Oh. That's awful. Who was...fighting over it?

[givetheslip]

Crusader armies, the local resistance, me who wanted to use the island to hide things they shouldn't have had...it's a long, bloody story. One I hope was nearly at an end.

[It all seems so far away now.]

[anobserver]

...oh. Um. Wow. That's a lot of people. But you can stop it and make it end?

[givetheslip]

I don't think any one person can end part of a war, even if it's just a small one. But I have faith that it won't last forever.

[This sounds more positive than she feels, because Maria is thinking that eventually, the combatants would run out of people to kill. But it probably won't go that far.]