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]

"It is not a resource we can afford to make known, but in combination with your powers it would be... very shortsighted of us not to use it," Alexandria says carefully. "How were you planning to return to your world?"

[will_you_still]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours, right.

"If this works with the same summoning mechanics I'm accustomed to, I return to my world if my summoner dismisses me, or dies. I don't currently have any plans to expedite either. I'm - okay, some fairies only accept casual jobs, leave for an hour, move some couches, but I am not that kind of fairy. I accept the jobs that aren't easy, that might take a very long time. I've built my life in mind of the fact that at any time I could be summoned away for a long time. So everything there is can be put on hold for a while. And you kind of seem to need me, so."

[acanofworms]

"In that case the first order of business is guaranteeing your summoner won't do either of those things. Who and where are they?"

[will_you_still]

She considers.

...

She can't really keep a kid safe and secret on her own. Perhaps she could play bodyguard and keep a single kid away from harm, and perhaps she could keep the kid secret by never ever mentioning her to anyone, but there's no way she could do both and pull if off alone.

So the real question is, does she trust these three?

"That is a lot to ask of me," she points out, "and I'm not saying no, I'll keep my summoner's identity secret, but that is a lot to ask of me, especially since while I've heard a lot about you three in the past few days, I haven't really gotten to know you."

[acanofworms]

"That's reasonable, but you certainly have heard enough that whatever we may actually be like the fact that we have humanity's well-being as a priority should be fairly obvious. But as a show of good faith, this is our resource. Door."

A square of light appears mid air behind the heroes and expand into a three dimensional structure, the inside of a well-lit hallway without the outside.

[will_you_still]

Morgan notes that this is a secret that they've kept from the entire world. Too valuable to risk, she realizes immediately.

Yeah, okay. That's maybe not even, but it is a suitable show of good faith, she thinks. And they are obviously trying to save the world. She'd like to get along with these people.

There's a pause as she weighs this, then:

"Mary O'Brien. I dropped her off at a police station in Saint John. I didn't get her age, but she looked to be around five or six. She summoned me in Newfoundland, my first priority was getting her away - her parents were already dead."

[acanofworms]

Alexandria nods at Legend. "We'll make sure she's safe. For now, though, this is a private enough location. If you'll come with us?" She gestures at the hallway.

[will_you_still]

"Sure."

Into the hallway she flies, because who needs to walk when you can fly? Not her, that's who.

[acanofworms]

Alexandria and Eidolon follow her in.

It's a rush. The air pressure changes suddenly, and it feels like she's actually traversed the space between where she was and where she is very very fast.

Alexandria leads the way.

[will_you_still]

Well. This is quite a power, isn't it? Daeva-level power, if not the same type. And they're very varied, aren't they, during her time spent as emergency relief, she saw people doing so many things -

And is a little girl that can make a super-powerful fairy far fetched, in a land like this?

...

She's quite sure that she was not created several days ago, but it's food for thought. Might be what they think she is.

"I get the impression that parahumans just sort of - get their powers randomly?"

[acanofworms]

"Approximately. Not everyone has the potential to get them, but those who do will get them when put under sufficient stress," Alexandria explains as she finds her way through the maze.

[will_you_still]

Pause.

An Endbringer attack is pretty stressful.

"... Ah. Okay."

She doesn't think she was created several days ago but it might be a thing that occurred. ... It doesn't really change anything, except maybe if she's killed she could be put back, or maybe the Simurgh has to get Mary to accomplish anything at all. But maybe not. Who knows. This is all guesswork.

[acanofworms]

Well, if she doesn't share her guesses with the rest of the class they can't comment on it!

Eventually they reach a room, where a woman with a doctor's lab coat is waiting with another, much younger lady in an utilitarian black suit. Both stands up, and the former says, "Hello, it is a pleasure to meet you. I am the Doctor." She extends her hand to Morgan.

[will_you_still]

Morgan shakes the offered hand, not looking distracted at all.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, too. I'm Morgan." She bets she already knows, but there's no use being impolite.

[peterxy]

"Please, sit," she says, and takes a seat herself. The woman with her doesn't say anything and doesn't take a seat, though. Both Alexandria and Eidolon do. "I heard you have quite useful powers and are responsible for the Leviathan's disappearance and the Simurgh's odd behavior." She has a slight French accent, barely noticeable.

[will_you_still]

Well it'd just be rude not to sit, so she does. Not that she thinks the woman with her is rude. Possibly a bodyguard, she's not sure.

She smiles a bit. "I am. How much have they told you already?"

[peterxy]

"Everything, I do believe. You see, we've been working for years on getting rid of the Endbringers with little success. At the current rate, our estimations are that we will be facing an end of the world scenario in approximately thirty years."

[will_you_still]

"From the Endbringers? How often do they show up?"

[peterxy]

"Once every two to four months. The same Endbringer never attacks twice in a row since the Leviathan showed up. I'm not sure if you know, but our version of Japan has been mostly destroyed by the Leviathan, with Kyushu having been completely sunk. You probably saved Newfoundland from a similar fate, but the Behemoth has caused similarly extensive damage and it's basically impossible to gauge how much the Simurgh has affected."

[will_you_still]

Morgan nods, looking grim.

"Well, I think I should be kept far far away from the Simurgh, but I might be able to kill Leviathan with some help or more time without the Simurgh showing up. I don't know enough about Behemoth to say if I could do much at all. It's more like Leviathan than the Simurgh, right?"

[acanofworms]

"Only in that he can't see the future or affect people's minds," Alexandria says. "He's fifteen feet taller than the Leviathan, and a dynakinetic."

"If you work through telescopes it might be possible to do something about the Simurgh before she can properly affect you or retaliate. We have to assume whatever plans she has already take you into account."

[will_you_still]

Another nod. "I'll try whatever looks promising with her, so long as she doesn't have a chance to get in my head again. If I can get her out of the solar system she'll have a hell of a time getting back without my level of telekinesis. And Behemoth can come with me on a field trip for scientific experimentation into killing Endbringers - is there a way you could get me some sort of device that will help with navigating in space? Otherwise I have to keep Earth in view so I don't get hopelessly lost."

[acanofworms]

"I had another idea."

[will_you_still]

"Oh?"

[acanofworms]

"We're not on the same Earth you arrived in."