maskormenace | Chapter One [Video]

[When the feed clicks on, someone's obviously showing off. First, a blank notebook opens and turns a few pages of its own volition... before post-it notes stick on it out of nowhere, followed by a few splatters of ink. Castle then turns it on his smiling face.]

Now, as far as superpowers go, throwing ink and paper around isn't the worst thing someone could have. In fact, it's quite fitting for a writer and avid reader like myself. Just imagine all the possibilities... reading without needing to turn the pages, writing a grocery list with a few twists of the finger, putting up wallpaper... okay, maybe it's not THAT cool. But look what else I can do.

[Castle holds the phone up with one hand while writing WAFFLES in his notebook with the other. And lo and behold- a plate of waffles appears. Except one is still frozen and one is slightly burnt, and they only linger a few moments before vanishing.]

... I'm failing at demonstrating my abilities and looking halfway-competent at them, aren't I? Anybody willing to help a writer-turned-sudden-superhero out? You'd have my eternal gratitude as well as a dedication in my next novel.

[He then signs RICHARD CASTLE on the notebook page, and awaits replies.]

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A bit. She has mellowed out somewhat in her old age- and dealing with young theatre students who are just finding their own inner diva has tempered hers a lot.

So she's teaching?

Yup. She inherited some money from an old flame she hooked back up with and opened a school. Amazing how dealing with younger versions of oneself can make a difference.

Seems like everyone's learning in her school.

Yeah- she's doing a good job of it. She even managed to come up with this whole elaborate fake murder mystery to entertain me when my leg was broken last year.

Couldn't you write?

Yeah, but that's not as exciting.

Did you end up writing about the fake murder? [ is that how it works? ]

I would, but there's a famous movie called Rear Window that's got a similar premise- a man stuck in a wheelchair with nothing better to do spies on his neighbours and catches suspicious activity. I wouldn't want to be called a hack... more than I am sometimes, anyway.