My bunny slippers just ran for cover

[will_you_still]

Morgan doesn't strictly need to sleep. Even if she didn't want to put up with the annoyance of constantly having a caffeine buzz and having to ask for coffee on almost every summon, there are naps. Naps can keep a daeva going for quite a long time.

But there's something unutterably pleasant about curling up in a proper bed in pajamas and just sleeping. And then waking up and getting breakfast in those pajamas. So she does that, because immortality's a long unpleasant time if you don't enjoy the little things every now and then. Like adorable bunny slippers and soft pajamas and sleeping in.

She's midway through a fruity salad thing that counts as the standard fairy breakfast when she feels the summon. Showing up to a summon in pajamas? Eh. If they're proper summoners she bets they've seen worse, and she doesn't particularly care if they think she's unprofessional.

She puts her spoon down and accepts the summon.

Comments

[peterxy]

There are, and they're more confused about the fact that she's not wearing a mask than about the fact that she's in pyjamas. Though given how obvious the wings are, maybe a mask would be pretty useless.

"How can I help you?" a helpful-looking lady asks.

[will_you_still]

"Can you find someone to take care of this girl?" asks Morgan. "Her name's Mary O'Brien." She doesn't say 'her parents are dead' but from her expression it could be surmised.

[peterxy]

The lady furrows her brows. The fact that the both of them aren't soaked through means that her provenance isn't as obvious. "We can. Where are her legal guardians?" The girl doesn't react to that; apparently it does not occur to her that those would be her parents.

[will_you_still]

...

"We came from the island," she says, by way of explanation. She surmises that the woman would figure it out from there.

[peterxy]

She does! And takes the child off Morgan's hands.

[will_you_still]

She nods.

"It'll be okay," she assures Mary, and then out she goes.

There is a monster that needs killing. Finding it's not going to be a problem. Off she flies.

[peterxy]

Fly fly fly!

And eventually she finds the rain. The monster that needs killing is elsewhere on the island. And more destruction has happened there.

[will_you_still]

Yeah. Of course it has.

She starts looking for the monster. Tough going, but she can briefly stop the rain blocking her vision, so not that tough.

[peterxy]

The creature's pretty tall anyway so it's not hard to find.

It is currently moving really fast at people, then stopping and letting its watery afterimage - which contains way more water than could possibly have been on the monster - crash against them.

[will_you_still]

Mhm.

That's interesting, maybe taking advantage of the invulnerability to keep the water from being taken away.

How does the creature feel about, oh, being yanked away from someone it's trying to move really fast at before it's anywhere close?

[peterxy]

...well it does not seem to express many feelings either way. It reacts very quickly to its new surroundings in the most destructive possible way, turning around a lot and using its large tail to hit things.

[will_you_still]

Mhm. So maybe she can just pick it up and take it to space, probably not very far without any sort of thing to calculate how to get back to Ea-

...

What in the world are these people wearing.

Some of them are bleeding. Profusely. A few of them are in pieces. A daeva wouldn't have gotten hurt so badly.

...

This isn't a daeva fight.

Oh shit.

I'm immortal they're not -

And what comes next is pretty obvious. Well, to her. She rips the monster off of the ground, holds it aloft a hundred feet in the air, and then she hits it with the most unbreakable thing she has as hard as she can move it.

Which is to say, herself. Ow.

[peterxy]

Well.

The monster is hit pretty damn hard.

But the monster itself is pretty damn hard. It hurts the monster, who's thrown away pretty far into a building, causing its collapse.

But concussive damage doesn't seem to be quite the way to go.

[will_you_still]

Welp, she tried to kill it, now it's time to take it to space.

C'mon monster you're going on a field trip!

Yoink.

To space!

[peterxy]

The monster starts generating water and using it to push itself towards the Earth.

[will_you_still]

See, no, that's not what they're doing here. The monster stays (relatively) still, despite its pushing. What's happening here is experiment time. How does one kill a monster? She's ever so curious. Can she, for example, rip it limb from limb?

[peterxy]

Well, she can try.

And the end effect is that she finds out this monster doesn't have internal organs; it has layers, with black ichor between them. The way she discovers this is that she can remove some of them, but not all, and there is a core that seems to be pretty resistant to being moved away from itself.

[will_you_still]

Okay.

What about being moved towards itself? She can crush the monster to death, too, she's not picky.

[peterxy]

Mmmmnope. The monster is overall pretty dense, so crushing the external layers into themselves: not terribly helpful.

[will_you_still]

Well she'd try throwing it into a sun next but with the water generation she doesn't think she wants to risk it, might fuck up the sun. And she can't get to any others without navigation of any kind, she's already kind of pushing it where she is, with Earth still in view.

Let's see. Rip all of its outer layers off, then try hitting it with herself as fast as she can go? Maybe see if bullshit invulnerability will break bullshit invulnerability.

[peterxy]

That's a pretty good ide-

...

.........

What's that noise. It's space there shouldn't be any sounds.

[will_you_still]

What the everliving fuck!

Where is the noise, what is it coming from -

[peterxy]

It's not coming from places, it just exists. It's almost like music, if music was made to make it absolutely impossible to find peace in your own head. It builds up expectation, then suddenly breaks it and disturbs whatever harmony it had created; it twists and changes in ways sound shouldn't be able to, ripping apart the very idea of what a song is like.

Unrelatedly there's another really tall humanoid thing coming from the Earth, with various pieces of satellites and other debris coming with.

[will_you_still]

It's in her head.

Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope -

She flings the extremely skinned monster at the tall humanoid thing coming from the Earth with as much speed as she can manage, and then she runs. Or, well. Flies. Run run run run run she does not know if she has mind defenses fuck fuck fuck run.

Aaaaaaa!

[peterxy]

The tall humanoid thing seemed to be almost expecting it and doges it easily, then uses its own version of moving things to bring the lizard thing closer to itself.

And it starts moving back toward the Earth.