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Leah Ross ([personal profile] trickswithsticks) wrote in [community profile] shatterverse2010-01-09 08:29 pm
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So Sam's gone off to Nebraska with Dean and Jo. this is good; Leah approves, especially as he took a radio so Leah can find him if she needs him.

She's determined not to need him. which is perfectly normal and just one of Leahs' 'totally independent and needs no one and ntohgin, thank you' quirks she's got going on. Besides, Oracle was true to her word and is providing Leah with plenty to do. In between missions from afar, she's busying herself with things that distract her from thinking about how much she wants him around.

One of those things is heavy metal music. Which is why she's leaving her apartment in Metropolis; she knows a market that occasionally trades in scavaneged goods. that they often contain CDs.

Catch her there or en route, or even on the radio - Innovator is always wired in.
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-09 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Rachel sits still finally and looks right at Leah, jaw setting.

"Absolutely."
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-10 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
If there were effective prisons and a working police force here, Rachel might be having the same crises. As it is, work-jobs-battles are the only things that don't send her into a fit of self-loathing-exploration.

Rachel smiles a little for the immediate response, drawing her feet up onto the chair so she can wraps her arms around her knees. "Me and Tobias. A few from the farm. That girl that can create and move that light stuff..."

One day, she'll actually have to get Val's name.

"...and whoever else she told and forgot about." This last is slightly irritable.

"Oh, and Lucy. I haven't asked, but I'm sure she'll come."
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-10 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Rachel hesitates. It's not a suspicious pause, but a surprised one.

"How many do we need?"
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-10 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Rachel smirks a little, almost embarrassed for being caught off guard like that. "We both have Lucy, the dragon," she says - and adds quickly, "with permission. Tobias is best with red-tailed hawk. Mine's the grizzly bear. But last time, we mostly used the dragon. These things sort of absorb whatever they touch, including us. Raw power didn't do much but anything with a blade or teeth would probably be best."
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-10 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Another pause.

A long one, this time.





"...okay," Rachel says softly, more to herself than anything. Then louder, "You know, like... on a shower wall, when you've finished, and there are all the drops scattered around. One starts falling and it runs into another on the way down and it... absorbs.

"It's like that. They sort of attach and melt and..."
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-11 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Pretty much." She thinks about Val's shudders and expression when she was talking about it, frowning. "The first time, we just ran in and... maybe it was too fast. We got out okay, we won, but that was a lot smaller."

God, she is really glad Tobias isn't with her right now.
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-11 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
Rachel smiles and looks wistful for a moment. "No."

But that, her tone says, would be awesome.

"The main target might be the Father guy but we couldn't find him last time. The only way we could get the army to fall was to tear at this thing in the center. It was like a heart, with a worm in the center. Once I killed the worm, the rest of them fell.

"I never actually saw the Father. He just talked to me."
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-11 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
Rachel proves this with a slight frown, much like when Leah asked if she wanted to come over for tea.

"A what?"
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-11 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
There's another pause. This one has more to do with protectiveness - no one has wanted Tobias on the front-lines so far and he hasn't exactly been psyched to move on this.



"I have an eagle morph. It doesn't have to be him."
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-11 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
"The center was hard, but the second I got to it, I guess the rest of them flipped out and started fighting twice as hard."

There's another pause, not quite as long. Not only is Tobias' body smaller, and therefore faster, he's an all-around better flier than Rachel is, more attuned to his body and its abilities.


"...he's not crazy about this trip. He'll go, I know he will. But if you want to make him the center of it, I need to talk to him first."
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-11 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
"No. They'll notice two. He needs back-up, I can do that, but if only one person needs to be the center of it, it should be just one person."

She knows how it works. But this isn't the usual and Tobias is constantly reminding her of that. She's not going to volunteer him for the Death Squad position.

"I'm not going to volunteer him for it, though. I'll talk to him, or I'll ask him to come talk to you, if you want."
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[personal profile] theresnodoor 2010-01-11 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course."

He'll say yes, because Rachel is going and he'll want to go and if they need him, Tobias would never say no.

But Rachel won't say that.

She nods, setting her chin on top of her knee. "She said something like ten people know about it, from the farm. I was thinking of asking Jo, too, if she's up for it."

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