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

[mxglam]

They ponder that for a bit. "I mean, I agree, but I think... competent wouldn't be enough, or maybe it's not the word I'd use to describe it. It'd have to be someone I could personally verify was doing good, someone I really trusted."

[will_you_still]

Nod. "That makes perfect sense."

[mxglam]

"Yeah. So. My options are basically being arrested, being arrested, or having to start over somewhere. Well, I mean, not completely over, but for now my rep is mostly limited to the New York Forums."

[will_you_still]

"I mean, saying you're seventeen and only putting up with the Wards for a year lessens the time being arrested, if that factors in at all, but - yeah, I see what you mean. Hmmm."

[mxglam]

"Why would it? Lessen the time, I mean."

[will_you_still]

"... When you turn eighteen the probation ends, and you're free to do whatever you want. Wards can go immediately join the Protectorate, and are in fact kind of pressed to do so, but they don't have to."

[mxglam]

"...what, really?"

[will_you_still]

"Yes."

[mxglam]

"And they just believe me if I say I'm seventeen."

[will_you_still]

"I don't think they can question it if you keep your secret identity very secret and make a big deal out of not telling anyone. But I can check, if you like."

[mxglam]

"I see. Hmm. It would have made my life easier if I'd known that last year."

[will_you_still]

"Turned eighteen already?"

[mxglam]

"Yes, last year."

[will_you_still]

"Well. I think there are some ways around this - you can say your civilian identity was marked as legally dead in an Endbringer attack and only your power saved you, you can say you used your powers to illegally immigrate from someplace without a paper trail because where you came from sucked more - do you have parents or other legal guardians?"

[mxglam]

"...my legal guardian died in an Endbringer attack and only my power saved me."

[will_you_still]

"Oh. My condolences. How long ago did it happen? Feel free to not answer if you'd rather not."

[mxglam]

"Eleven years ago. It's- mostly fine."

[will_you_still]

... Nod.

"Well if you'd like to talk about it, you have my number." Pause. ".... Though now I'm concerned that if you don't have a legal guardian the PRT would get custody of you, and cause you trouble that way."

[mxglam]

"This whole thing is kinda confusing, though, I mean, who cares who my legal guardian is if they don't even know my name?"

[will_you_still]

"A bit. I don't know the specifics of how it all works, whatever age I am is 'over eighteen' so I haven't had to deal with this system at all."

[mxglam]

"Hmm. I wonder if we could fib with my legal documents, anyway. I've been emancipated for, uh, a few years."

[will_you_still]

"Probably. I'll ask for specifics of how this all works, report back to you?"

[mxglam]

"I am very suspicious of this but now you have ultimate blackmail on me so by all means."

[will_you_still]

Sigh.

"I am not going to use ultimate blackmail on you. Do you want some deep dark secret about me in exchange so you can believe I'm not going to betray or give you bad information or manipulate you?"

[mxglam]

"And what's my next thought when you say this?"