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<blockquote data-quote="Sollir Furryfoot" data-source="post: 2910288" data-attributes="member: 748"><p><strong>MaKenzie Wolf:</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: lightblue">"From what I've learned so far, our exact abilities are sparked from some innermost part of ourselves. For you to heal, you must be a very kind person on the inside, I'm sure you'll find some use for your powers out there."</span> Conveniently or unintentionally, Angel didn't press the subject about what MaKenzie would do on the outside. Going by her voice though, it sounded like she didn't want to pry too much into the other girl's personal life.</p><p></p><p>The technicians moved about the room some more, fiddling with their machines as usual. <span style="color: lightblue">"Just five more minutes."</span> Angel assures MaKenzie.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Lukas Clausewitz:</strong></p><p></p><p>"All this time I've talked to you, you've made Europe sound so fascinating. I am definately planning on going there when I have some free time. And yes, I would definately take you up on that offer, assuming I could reciprocate and show you around Chicago sometime as well." Felicia responds to Lukas' initial statements. Her face conveys her mild shock at Lukas' timid display of power. Typically the facility doesn't appreciate such actions though even they have been more lax about that now that the end of the program is near. </p><p></p><p>"Yeah, I'm not certain how the public will take us. I don't think that they would be prejudiced against us, but I would empathize with them if they were afraid. And I also would like to learn more about my powers, assuming what they tell us is true and that we'll be able to develope ours much further. I find the notion empowering."</p><p></p><p>"As to whether super-people would ever show up, I can't know. I mean, we're regular people, or at least human beings. I don't think any of us, not even the Carmichaels, are crazy, power hungry people. I never really understood the viewpoint of those comic supervillains anyhow."</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Joshua Lucas Trevin:</strong></p><p></p><p>"Your move."</p><p></p><p>You, of course, knew it was your move already, seeing as its been your turn for a good half-minute. Will was just being smug, of course in his joking, good-natured way. And he didn't mention it because you weren't paying attention, the spot this kid put you in left you several options, but most of these so called options (as you so perfectly recall) led to dead ends. For a while, your perfect memory had allowed you to eventually catch up to Will's tactics, and for the first time, the teen admitted, he had to really work on varying up his tactics. After the change however it was almost ridiculous, before you could maybe win one out of every three or four matches, but since then you haven't won once. The saying, "five moves ahead" was an understatement for your friend, you imagined he must have had the whole game mapped out just after the opening four or five moves.</p><p></p><p>In retrospect, the tone Will used when playing was more impatient than usual, more hurried and annoyed. This would probably be the last chess game you two would play for a while, seeing as after today you would both be free from the program. They had already packed your keyboard and violin for safe shipping.</p><p></p><p>Three months. And very little has changed since the past two. Leo was skulking in the corner of the room, glancing you occasionally while Miranda was probably lying down in her room. You notice Will looking at you now, attempting to read your expression. It was a new and fairly accurate habit of his he's acquired since developing his powers. After a moment, he speaks, "Exciting, isn't it?"</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Joe Vaughn:</strong></p><p></p><p>"Look at those two, I can't believe they can concentrate day in and day out over a couple of plastic pieces on some dinky little checkerboard." Leo was being more verboise than usual, which usually meant he was either angry or happy, though truthfully both emotional states strongly resembled each other with him. He was perhaps the person most affected by the confined nature of the facility you all were kept in, and for some reason or another he latched on to you. Usually though, he was much less talkative, but to some extent it's understandable that today of all days would be the one where he was more extroverted.</p><p></p><p>"I don't think I'd mind it if I never saw white walls like these again. A breath of fresh clean air, some beer*, pretty women, Joe man, I can't wait to get outta here. Maybe I can find a good fighter, some karate-punk or whatever to test these powers on. I mean, no offense, you're a cool guy and all but it sucks that we aren't able to use our powers on each other." He tosses a meaningful glare at Josh, leaving his gaze just long enough for the other man to notice before looking away and continuing, "It would make fighting a lot more interesting, although hopefully not too easy." he exlcaims full of self confidence, now wearing a grin. </p><p></p><p>Indeed, it seemed like this was one of his happier moods.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*<em>alcoholic beverages weren't permitted within the facility</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sollir Furryfoot, post: 2910288, member: 748"] [b]MaKenzie Wolf:[/b] [Color=lightblue]"From what I've learned so far, our exact abilities are sparked from some innermost part of ourselves. For you to heal, you must be a very kind person on the inside, I'm sure you'll find some use for your powers out there."[/color] Conveniently or unintentionally, Angel didn't press the subject about what MaKenzie would do on the outside. Going by her voice though, it sounded like she didn't want to pry too much into the other girl's personal life. The technicians moved about the room some more, fiddling with their machines as usual. [color=lightblue]"Just five more minutes."[/color] Angel assures MaKenzie. [b]Lukas Clausewitz:[/b] "All this time I've talked to you, you've made Europe sound so fascinating. I am definately planning on going there when I have some free time. And yes, I would definately take you up on that offer, assuming I could reciprocate and show you around Chicago sometime as well." Felicia responds to Lukas' initial statements. Her face conveys her mild shock at Lukas' timid display of power. Typically the facility doesn't appreciate such actions though even they have been more lax about that now that the end of the program is near. "Yeah, I'm not certain how the public will take us. I don't think that they would be prejudiced against us, but I would empathize with them if they were afraid. And I also would like to learn more about my powers, assuming what they tell us is true and that we'll be able to develope ours much further. I find the notion empowering." "As to whether super-people would ever show up, I can't know. I mean, we're regular people, or at least human beings. I don't think any of us, not even the Carmichaels, are crazy, power hungry people. I never really understood the viewpoint of those comic supervillains anyhow." [b]Joshua Lucas Trevin:[/b] "Your move." You, of course, knew it was your move already, seeing as its been your turn for a good half-minute. Will was just being smug, of course in his joking, good-natured way. And he didn't mention it because you weren't paying attention, the spot this kid put you in left you several options, but most of these so called options (as you so perfectly recall) led to dead ends. For a while, your perfect memory had allowed you to eventually catch up to Will's tactics, and for the first time, the teen admitted, he had to really work on varying up his tactics. After the change however it was almost ridiculous, before you could maybe win one out of every three or four matches, but since then you haven't won once. The saying, "five moves ahead" was an understatement for your friend, you imagined he must have had the whole game mapped out just after the opening four or five moves. In retrospect, the tone Will used when playing was more impatient than usual, more hurried and annoyed. This would probably be the last chess game you two would play for a while, seeing as after today you would both be free from the program. They had already packed your keyboard and violin for safe shipping. Three months. And very little has changed since the past two. Leo was skulking in the corner of the room, glancing you occasionally while Miranda was probably lying down in her room. You notice Will looking at you now, attempting to read your expression. It was a new and fairly accurate habit of his he's acquired since developing his powers. After a moment, he speaks, "Exciting, isn't it?" [b]Joe Vaughn:[/b] "Look at those two, I can't believe they can concentrate day in and day out over a couple of plastic pieces on some dinky little checkerboard." Leo was being more verboise than usual, which usually meant he was either angry or happy, though truthfully both emotional states strongly resembled each other with him. He was perhaps the person most affected by the confined nature of the facility you all were kept in, and for some reason or another he latched on to you. Usually though, he was much less talkative, but to some extent it's understandable that today of all days would be the one where he was more extroverted. "I don't think I'd mind it if I never saw white walls like these again. A breath of fresh clean air, some beer*, pretty women, Joe man, I can't wait to get outta here. Maybe I can find a good fighter, some karate-punk or whatever to test these powers on. I mean, no offense, you're a cool guy and all but it sucks that we aren't able to use our powers on each other." He tosses a meaningful glare at Josh, leaving his gaze just long enough for the other man to notice before looking away and continuing, "It would make fighting a lot more interesting, although hopefully not too easy." he exlcaims full of self confidence, now wearing a grin. Indeed, it seemed like this was one of his happier moods. *[i]alcoholic beverages weren't permitted within the facility[/i] [/QUOTE]
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