voice ][ day 363

[truesight]

[ so, Rachel's freaked out. really, really freaked out. the network is talking about a mirror universe and she's noticed it, of course she has. people getting sucked into reflective surfaces. it's hard not to notice that! and she's managed to avoid getting caught in the crossfire so far, but only because she's shut herself in her room and hasn't left since the fighting started to get really bad. which, honestly, she hates. she feels useless!

so...

here's this transmission. she sounds panicked and frustrated all at the same time, fun stuff. ]

So, hi. Hello.

I'm still pretty new to the city so this might sound like a dumb question, but is it status quo for giant ..giants to be running around fighting each other here? Does this kind of thing just happen? I get that the people-stealing mirrors is new, but is this what the war is like here? The one we're supposed to be fighting in. Because I can't say I'm a huge fan of hiding out in my room and waiting until it's all over instead of actually helping somehow, but this kind of came out of nowhere and I've had a total of zero hours of training with my abilities, so here I am. Can't we do something? Maybe? What are we supposed to be doing right now?

[ half seriously looking for some answers, half just trying to distract herself from how crazy scary all of this is. yep. ]

Comments

[truesight]

Against giants? What kind of weapons? Do they have celestial bronze here?

[tradingsecrets]

Celestial bronze? No, just regular weapons.

[He waves his trident around a little and gives her a small smile.]

Though if you aren't comfortable fighting this is a bad time to go outside. You'd be better staying where you are.

[truesight]

[ oh a trident. well that... sure makes her think of Percy Jackson. ah. she nods, letting go of, well, what she knows about fighting monsters. the giants here were probably a lot different than the ones from home ]

I'm comfortable with fighting, I just don't think I'm ready to yet. Not when I can't pull anything bigger than a notebook off a page. [ drawing life woohoo ]

[tradingsecrets]

Well, at least that's a little more constructive as far as powers go. I'm sure you'll get to where you want to be in no time.

[He still hasn't tried to use his power. Of course, he's still out there fighting where he can.]

[truesight]

I hope so. [ a beat ] What kind of power do you have? Assuming the gods didn't give you something incredibly practical and useful like being really great at handling weapons. [ since nobody got those kinds of powers... ]

[tradingsecrets]

Well I can handle a weapon anyway, but I think my power is body control? Pretty sure, but I've never tried it out.

[He grins and shakes his head a bit.]

Again, if you can fight hand to hand there's no reason to worry using powers.

[truesight]

Maybe, but I'm not sure we should be fighting one of those giants using normal hand to hand. It just doesn't seem safe.

[ and she's totally teasing him but whatever ]

[tradingsecrets]

It's not safe, unless you are smart enough to do it of course. Not everyone is.

[A small teasing jab again.]