[Open] [Action] Echoes and ice cream....

[nowi_wins]

Who: Nora and OPEN
When: Early Saturday afternoon
Where: Cold Marble Creamery
What: Tasty frozen treats are consumed while a very serious discussion is had. Or maaaybe just the tasty treats part....


{OOC: No tag order, respond and/or bring up new topics as you like. Making your own threads to talk amongst yourselves is perfectly fine.}

[Nora has pushed several tables in the ice cream parlor together and is sitting down enjoying a sundae. She has with her a list of super powers and a small stack of comic books. She waits until everyone else has gotten their tasty frozen treats before standing up like this was some kind of board meeting.]

Okay! Now we're ready to get started!

[It was important for everyone to get their ice cream first.]

I think we should begin with a classic. Super speed! Anyone remember being faster than a speeding bullet or able to outrun trains or something?

Comments

[nowi_wins]

[She thinks about it.]

Yeah, me neither.

[But then a thought occurs to her.]

Hey, but you have that bird, right? Following you around? Maybe past you could talk to animals!

[charcoalfeather]

[Said bird was actually in a tree close to here, watching the winged girl, not that Rakka knew that.]

Talk to animals?

[She had to think about that.]

That sounds possible...

[nowi_wins]

Yeah! Do you think past you had any other animals that followed her?

[charcoalfeather]

Any others...

[Her mind wanders away for a moment, her eyes looking up, watching the clouds float by.

And, soon enough, she returns.]

Wait! I remember something!

[nowi_wins]

Seriously? What?

[This is actually working? omg so excited!]

[charcoalfeather]

I remember, I was inside a well...

[She has to frown as the memories come back to her. A well, of all places?]

And I couldn't get out because my ankle was sprained. I was talking to this... bird skeleton down there.

[nowi_wins]

Whoa.... that is seriously creepy. So past you could talk to undead birds?

[charcoalfeather]

Uh... I'm pretty sure it was just a dead bird.

[Not entirely sure, but enough.]

[nowi_wins]

Um, if it was a skeleton, and it was talking, isn't that pretty much the definition of 'undead?'

[charcoalfeather]

Well, the bird skeleton wasn't actually talking. It was only me talking.

[Which sounds really weird when you think about it.]

[nowi_wins]

Wait so.... past you was just talking to a dead bird? Like, a regular one?


Why? Did you know the bird when it was.... you know?

[Alive?]

[charcoalfeather]

I... think so. Yes.

[Which is... really weird when you think about it.]

Maybe? It could be the bird that followed my around a lot.

[nowi_wins]

Aw...that's kind of sad. Was he your pet? I mean, past you's pet?

[She can't imagine having a conversation with the skeleton of a dead pet. That's depressing no matter how you look at it.]

[charcoalfeather]

No, I don't think so. He was... something else. Kind of like a spirit guide, I guess?

[If that makes it any better. Although, having a dead spirit guide was pretty bad anyways.]

[nowi_wins]

Do you remember how he died?

[Or... how a spirit can die in the first place?]

[charcoalfeather]

[She shook her head.]

I remember I being around... and then not.

[nowi_wins]

You might be better off. I bet a memory like that would be pretty sad...

[charcoalfeather]

You're probably right.

[She didn't want to think about what a dead spirit guide might mean.]

[nowi_wins]

But you said he was following you around again, right? I mean, you you, not past you... this you.

[She pauses. That sounded more like a real sentence in her head.]

Um, you know what I mean.

[charcoalfeather]

Yeah, I... I get it. It's been following me for a while, and I don't really know what it wants.

[And, this is besides the point...]

I'm thinking of naming it Kuu.

[nowi_wins]

Have you tried asking it? Maybe it can figure out a way to tell you.

[She's imagining it scratching messages in dirt or something like that.]

That's a cute name! I like it.

[charcoalfeather]

Well, I can't talk to it because it's a bird.

[Why does everyone keep asking her to talk to it. She doesn't speak bird.]

And, uh, it likes to fly away a lot whenever I get close.

You like it? It was one of my friend's names. Like, my friends from the other place.

[nowi_wins]

Well, I was thinking maybe it could act out what it wants to say.

[Bird charades. Brilliant.]

Or maybe tap out the answers in morse code! With it's beak.

[Because a bird would know morse code?]

[charcoalfeather]

[Yes, brilliant.]

Really? Uh, well, I guess it could if it wanted to. I just have to get it to trust me.

[nowi_wins]

Try feeding it! All animals like food.