witch's cape, not hat

[characterquarry]

Grendyne groans and starts pulling on her boots when the alarm goes off. Again. She quick-marches to the broom hangar, sits on her machine and is handed a plethora of loaded weapons by attentive corporals.

"Two flyers in one day? They're getting way too common."

"It's worse," the commander informs them, "South Karlsland got hit with three at once. We're taking Lytee's express and sleeping there. You can sit out if you absolutely need to, but Freya's still recovering so we could use you as a comms relay."

"No, I'll come. I just reserve the right to complain about it."

The 42nd United Forces Witch Wing takes off and assembles into a perfect synchronized formation as Lytee charges her teleport power.



...This is not South Karlsland wilderness.

[note: halfway through this thread I created a unique account for Grendyne. Do not be alarmed by the change in account. -Rockeye]

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[witchwatcher]

"Well, yes."

She thinks for a moment. "I think I'm well suited to being pressured like that. I take things as they come. If I snap I'll probably disappear to some random island and blow up rocks, not kill someone. And it's still a good feeling even if it gets stale, helping people."

[significantfigures]

"That sounds nice."

Dinah sacrifices a pawn.

[witchwatcher]

"I think so, yes."

That pawn's sacrifice will surely be appreciated by someone. Gren's next few moves put her queen in a risky but powerful position.

"I think I've got as much of your power as I'm gonna get. Chance I find Coil in the next few days is eighty one point four percent, and it hurt my head a lot more than I think it does to you."

[significantfigures]

"Tea and darkness and lying down help. My parents don't let me have any kind of pills but that would probably help more if I got the right kind."

[witchwatcher]

"Angel's kind of healing works more like a sphere of well-being than anything else. I'll see if it helps."

...Her skin starts glowing faintly.

[significantfigures]

"My head doesn't hurt right now. I didn't do all my work at once."

[witchwatcher]

Gren shrugs and stops glowing. "Then you can enjoy being just a little less tired and stressed."

Her ice cream is almost gone by now. She's a fast eater, apparently. "I don't suppose you know where Coil's got to? I'm inclined to hunt him down and my chances are pretty good."

[significantfigures]

"Last I checked he was still active and in Brockton Bay, but that's all I have."

[witchwatcher]

"Maybe the Undersiders will know. Tattletale is annoying, but boy does she know things."

Gren's queen takes Dinah's rook, but is now more or less trapped by a bishop and pawns.

[significantfigures]

Dinah puts her in check.

"Maybe you can copy her too."

[witchwatcher]

"Oh, maybe. Most thinker-type powers give me just as much of a headache as yours so I tend not to use them much."

Gren has more pieces at this point, but less control over the board. She moves a pawn to block the check.

[significantfigures]

Which lets Dinah take her queen.

"Maybe you should copy someone who can help with Thinker headaches. There must be someone."

[witchwatcher]

"If there is I haven't heard of them. They'd be almost as useful as Dauntless, that's for sure."

[significantfigures]

"I haven't asked the Protectorate about it because - well, I'd basically want them over every day, and - it's complicated - but if you could copy one you could fix yourself fine, I bet."

[witchwatcher]

"I'll try and find one, but I don't run on the same stuff Bet's parahumans do, I don't even have a, what was it, corona pollentia."

Gren is well on her way to decisively losing this chess match, but she's doesn't seem really concerned about it.

[significantfigures]

"It's still worth a try."

[witchwatcher]

"Oh, definitely."

"...This is nice. Relaxing. Ice cream was a good idea."

[significantfigures]

"Ice cream's nice."

[witchwatcher]

"Yeah. I-" Her phone buzzes loudly. "Welp. I forfeit, gotta go, emergency response contract."

She grabs her mask out of her coat and disappears to the location of what is, apparently, a plane crash.

[significantfigures]

"Bye."

Dinah goes home.

[witchwatcher]

About an hour later, Copycat sends Glory Girl an email that boils down to 'Do you know why Panacea doesn't want me to copy her? I could heal more people with more different kinds of healing.'

[wormcan]

The response, when similarly boiled, says that it's part New Wave reasons and part personal, and Glory Girl can't really talk about it. Which isn't evasive at all.

[witchwatcher]

Well that's that. She has plenty of powers already, she doesn't NEED a new sort of healing.

She flies above Skitter's territory, high enough that no bugs are present, and whisper-spells at the bug queen. "Copycat here. Just letting you know you passed my checkup. Do you happen to know where Coil's got to?"

[whole_new_can]

Skitter is alarmed that Copycat can find her from outside her range. She's supposed to be the one in that position.

"I think he left town when we took over," she lies.

[witchwatcher]

"Uh huh. You're getting your money from somewhere. I don't buy that you can run this place the way you do without a backer. And it fits Coil's modus operandi, doesn't it?"