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]

Alexandria looks at the guy who has neglected to introduce himself. "The Simurgh was probably predicting something like this was going to happen."

"How fast can you fly and move things?" not-introduced-guy asks.

New person - presumably Eidolon - arrives as well, and Alexandria catches him up.

[will_you_still]

"I can't break lightspeed," she says. "Aside from that? Uh." She smiles a bit. "Do you have other monster problems that might be solved by a field trip to space?"

[peterxy]

"Yes," the three of them say simultaneously, differing in tone.

"Are you from another Earth?" asks Alexandria.

[will_you_still]

...

There are multiple Earths?

"... Yes?"

[peterxy]

"Well, if you don't know about the Endbringers you're probably not from Bet nor Aleph, but we didn't know there were any more portals anywhere around."

"...I'm Legend, by the way," Legend introduces, realizing the probably doesn't know who he is if she doesn't know about Endbringers either. "How did you arrive here?"

[will_you_still]

To tell the truth or to lie like a rug...

...

They seem to be heroic people that are trying to save the world. Let's tell most of the truth. Which means telling it somewhere that is not in front of everyone here.

"Um, can I explain this in a less public place? I mean, I will explain it, but."

[peterxy]

They are very familiar with talking about things in less public places.

Legend looks around. "I will oversee the remaining disaster relief efforts here, if you have damaged the Leviathan enough that the Simurgh saw fit to go rescue him he's not likely to return."

"We can find a private place to talk about it and Legend will join us later," Alexandria says.

[will_you_still]

"... I mean, I can also help with disaster relief efforts," she points out, "because I can move arbitrary matter that I can see with my mind. Explaining things can wait, if you don't mind?"

[peterxy]

"How likely is it that other people like you will come here, or that people from here will go to where you're from?" Alexandria asks after both Legend and Eidolon look at her for a second.

[will_you_still]

"I don't think it's at all possible that people from here can get to where I came from." Pause. "... But it might be possible that other people like me can get here, or, um. Be brought here."

[peterxy]

Alexandria thinks about this, then looks at Legend, who says, "We will be very glad to have your help."

[will_you_still]

"Okay. I don't know what your systems are like, so - I'm fine with playing minion. Tell me what to do."

[peterxy]

Both Alexandria and Eidolon go off to do things, and Legend says, "Come with me, I'll get you a comm device and we'll be able to direct you places where you'll be useful."

[will_you_still]

"Sure."

She gets a comm device, and is directed places. It turns out that one of the best places to put her is someplace high, with a view of everything, and then she can move whatever she's looking at. Then it's just telling her what to look at and do - she has very good finesse for someone that's far away and telekinetically messing with stuff, though if asked she says that she loses some finesse at this distance.

(But she has several hundred years of practice. That adds up.)

If this takes long enough she'll inform Legend that she doesn't need to sleep and can stay awake indefinitely if supplied with enough coffee.

[peterxy]

Not needing sleep is uncommon but not unheard of. Not needing sleep but needing coffee not to be affected by sleepiness is unheard of, but well within parahuman parameters of (ab)normality. And her help speeds the process up considerably and Legend asks her several times if she really is sure she doesn't need a break.

[will_you_still]

She assures him that she doesn't, but she does keep supplied with coffee.

...

She does not take bathroom breaks.

[peterxy]

That is also not unheard of, but it is nonetheless somewhat stranger than needing coffee to stay awake.

[will_you_still]

Well, she promises to explain things later. Relief efforts now! Whee helping people.

[peterxy]

People are helped! Eventually her help can be reasonably replaced by decentralized normal-human and -parahuman efforts without loss in efficiency.

[will_you_still]

Well, then she can now go explain things. In private. Is there a suitably private location?

[peterxy]

There is! It turns out that being the leaders and founding members of the world's foremost parahuman organization gives people access to quite a lot of things. Who'd've thought?

They find a room that Eidolon declares to be impossible to spy on via means not immediately obvious to Morgan, but both Alexandria and Legend seem to believe him.

[will_you_still]

Gosh. Morgan guesses she'll believe him too.

Once they are inside:

"So I have been to an Earth besides this one, but I'm not from any Earth. I'm a - well, the English word for it is actually fairy. Fairies have their own world they can be summoned from, by humans. Every fairy is immortal, and has the exact same powerset I do." Pause. "We're part of a subset of beings called daeva, the other two subsets are also immortal and can, respectively, make things and change things. They can also be summoned."

[peterxy]

"What exactly is your powerset, in full detail?" asks Eidolon.

[will_you_still]

"I can control the movement of arbitrary amounts of matter that I can see, with my finesse depending on how well I can see it. This includes directly moving things, but also keeping things still. I can't work through cameras, but I can work through mirrors, and binoculars and microscopes and the like also work just fine. I can work without sight, but I'm working based off of what I think is there, and I'm much more likely to uh. Just break everything, really.

"Along with that I cannot suffer things that are unpleasant past a certain set baseline. If I go without sleep, the sleepiest I can get is a mild drowsiness that can be fought indefinitely with coffee at the cost of, uh, being kind of wired from drinking coffee nonstop. I have a friend that has not slept in over a century, he thinks it's a waste of his time. I can get a bit hungry, but don't need to eat and won't ever starve to death - flying in space without anything to protect me is unpleasant, but it's not actually harmful. You can't remove my limbs without my permission, period. I have a penpal who was once trapped in a black hole. She was stuck there for a while until she managed to get out, but she was never in mortal danger. And - so on. Comfortably immortal. All daeva get that part.

"The Simurgh caught me off guard, I didn't know if my comfortable only-unpleasant-to-a-baseline immortality extended to my head or not. ... I want to hope that I do have it, but I will never test it, because rogue daeva are the stuff of nightmares, and I do not want to be turned into a crazy puppet of destruction."

[peterxy]

Eidolon nods, both he and Alexandria inscrutable.

Legend looks a bit disbelieving, though. The last time a cape claimed to be a fairy... "If that's the full extent of your powers, how did you manage to injure the Leviathan?"