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baedalites ([personal profile] baedalites) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2012-03-31 08:21 pm

birds singing in the sycamore tree

As night falls on Baedal, the city is almost quiet. The streets have a few last minute workers returning home, but by now, most citizens have already gone by the temples and picked up their vurt, ready to lay down and dream.

After placing a not-feather in one's mouth, there's a moment where it fizzes against the tongue before sliding coolly down the back of the throat and pulling the user down into sleep. A series of impressions, more sensation than anything concrete, appears before the user and this is how one chooses which Dreamer to enter.
controlledvariable: (PB >> don't wanna take it)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2012-04-05 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
At first she wonders if he's just trying to distract her from the distress that coomes from talking about Nazis, but he does seem generally curious, and she notes the change in his appearance. So she smiles back.

"We've got more than you can poke a stick at," She sounds more amused than annoyed by that, and she's carefully focusing on her dream-appearance so that nothing shifts unconsciously; she doesn't need a cape or Bat-ears right now, "My dad was a C-grade supervillain, so I've had a little contact with both sides."
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[personal profile] hehaseatenthepancake 2012-04-05 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
No, if anything, she distracted him, as he really is that interested in the superhero phenomenon. He comes down from the initial giddiness, his appearance shifting back to normal as he flops back into the hammock again.

"Oh, that's great. I mean, not about your dad, but the rest of it." He makes a little gesture, and a photograph appears in his hand, then floats up on a breeze to Steph. "The guy in the back called himself the Torch of Liberty. I never knew him by any other name. When I was old enough, he taught me how to fight."

(Also, Steph, enjoy the cuteness of Baby Hellboy.)
controlledvariable: (PB >> I know it's hard but)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2012-04-05 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
She catches the photo easily and forces herself not to coo over how cute baby Hellboy is.

"The Torch of Liberty, huh?" It's pretty standard superhero fare, though at least a little more interesting than Batman, "It's cool that you got to learn from him."

It's tempting to say more about her own experiences and it might be obvious that there's a moment of indecisiveness before she settles on something more harmless, "Were superheroes in your world just regular people with costumes, or did they have powers and stuff?"