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[hostage]

[From what's visible behind him, Jesse's seated at the nurse's desk of the Xavier School infirmary. That's not really relevant to anything, just that he's at work and he's bored and out of anything useful to occupy his time. He's currently wrapping a gauze bandage around an empty soda can. An art piece, maybe. Or just keeping his hands busy.]

What's up? Anything exciting going on?

[He's talking to the comm device, but his eyes are on his "work".]

We got new guys coming in, right? How 'bout you? Freaking out about this superhero thing? It's pretty wild...

[That might be touching on sardonic. He knows it's no fun to be new here.]

You guys wanna talk or anything, I got nothing better to do.

[As thrilling as it is to keep winding this bandage around a soda can.]

Comments

[hostage]

They oughta stop complaining. That sounds like a sweet job to me.

[glitterateur]

I bet it gets monotonous and there aren't any perks!

--which reminds me! I wanted to thank you again for buying all those boxes of cookies. My troop totally won and I got a free shirt before I got kicked out.

[hostage]

No problem, seriously -

[Wait...]

Hold up. You got kicked out?

[glitterateur]

Suspended until further notice! Which I'm pretty sure is the nice way of saying kicked out.

[hostage]

What happened?

[glitterateur]

You know that mind thingy that happened a couple of weeks ago? The one where people who got sick started fighting and wrecking stuff...?

[hostage]

Y...eah?

[Sort of? He was in a depression spiral and not speaking to anyone, but he may have heard something or another.]

[glitterateur]

So I might've gone crazy and hit a couple of people while in my scout uniform so I can't really blame them all that much for not being happy about it.

[hostage]

Aw, come on. That's bullshit. They're seriously blaming you for that?

[glitterateur]

Yeah. It's okay, though! I understand. Plus now that cookie season's over and I can't sell stuff to people being a scout was gonna be boring anyway.

[hostage]

You want me to call 'em? See if I can talk 'em into taking you back?

[He can be very persuasive. Or rather, his money can be very persuasive.]

[glitterateur]

[A very firm headshake.]

Don't worry about it! This frees me up for all my other hobbies like greeting card making and picking superhero names. I really appreciate the offer though!

[hostage]

Aight, if you're sure about it.

Hey, I wanna hear some of those superhero names.

[glitterateur]

All I've got so far is Glitter Gal and The Sticker! The list is a work in progress but it'll be great.

[hostage]

I like Glitter Gal. Got the whole obliteration thing going on.

[He means alliteration, but he failed English.]