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

[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?"

[will_you_still]

"... I mean. Arbitrary matter includes pulling things apart. Tell the left arm to go one way, everything else to go the other way - it was the most obvious thing to do. After I took him to space, I tried that - he seemed to be made out of layers, no internal organs. Like the world's most murderous onion. The only problem was, the most inner layers were - super dense. Impossibly dense. I tried to rip those apart and couldn't manage it.

"Then I tried crushing them, and that didn't work either. So I ripped off all of the layers I could rip off, and hit him with the most unbreakable thing I had available." Pause. "Which was starting to show some promise, but then the Simurgh showed up."

[peterxy]

It is Legend's turn to be stunned into silence.

"The Simurgh has not returned yet," Alexandria says. "Do you need to be present with the things you move to move them? You said you're limited by the speed of light. Are your perceptions as well? If you moved the Endbringers far enough and fast enough that your and their time no longer passed at approximately the same rate, would you still be able to move them?"

[will_you_still]

"I don't need to be present with the things I move to move them, but it helps me aim. Every scrap of accuracy I can get I will try for, when I'm working with things that fast. My perceptions are standard human, though without the annoying issues - I don't need glasses, my vision's perfect. Peak physical health, but that's about it. And, yes, but keep in mind that if I move something that fast without going with it, it is not going to be an issue for very long unless a parahuman has like. Really fast portals that I can look through to keep moving them, or something that'll count for sight instead of cameras, or something." Pause. "How much do you know about physics? I can talk physics."

[peterxy]

"I know a lot about physics, but since parahumans appeared there's been less of a consensus on what the word means."

Legend looks at Alexandria. "...are we limited by physics anyway?" he asks, looking at her meaningfully and hoping she'll get his meaning.

Alexandria sighs and looks at Morgan. "There might be a better option."

[will_you_still]

"Oh?" says Morgan. "Do tell."

[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?"