MEANWHILE: New arrivals! [Video]

[learntofly]

[Or rather, one new arrival in particular. The video feed switches on to a dark-haired girl looking at something off screen with a look of confused amazement. The angle shifts to show a fairly generic looking set of storefronts and a glimpse of a hover-car driving past on the cross street—apparently the source of her distraction.

She looks back towards the camera, brows furrowing as she fiddles with the device. It takes several more long seconds before realization dawns on her and she actually looks at the camera.]

Oh— Oh! It's on? Well . . . [She trails off and takes another quick glance down the street, then back at the camera.]

Okay. Okay, I'm— I thought I was going to be asking about things like powers and registering and whether or not this is all a dream. [Another pause, this time to bite her lip and mutter something like "maybe it is" to herself.] But I think right now I just want to know . . . Is it normal for a whole city to be sealed off? They told me I'd be in Heropa, but now I've been sent somewhere completely different and it's all supposed to be temporary and I just—I . . . What is going on?

Comments

[violentmotion]

Can you do that? Some sort of freaky EVIL WOMAN DOCTOR SENSING MAGIC?

[jyuced]

Huh?! No, I don't like shots! [ He shakes his head quickly. ] Even after you grow up shots still hurt pretty bad. But sometimes they're really really important!

[violentmotion]

There's nothing that important! DENIED! Completely denied!

[jyuced]

Getting sick is even worse than shots! It's so boring!

[ To think this is all about a hypothetical vaccine for a nonexistant virus. ]

But you know, a good way to forget about the shot is to take a bunch of candy afterward. That always helps me!

[violentmotion]

But what if we skipped the shots and went straight to candy?

[jyuced]

Oh, you mean just steal it? [ ... He does that too... ] But what about all the sick people that touched it already??

[violentmotion]

It's fine! It's fine! They got a shot!

[jyuced]

[ ...!!!! ]

Ah, smart, that's so smart! I didn't even think of that!!

[violentmotion]

I am a true and certified genius after all.

Though you aren't bad to have noticed it so soon.

[jyuced]

Wow, thanks! That's so nice!!

[ People almost never call him smart. Or... vaguely imply it. ]

So are you a professor or something? Do you invent things?