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[ She's been working herself hard. Maybe too hard: she spends hours a day in the gym, sometimes as many as eight when she's not sleeping. She's read books on how to get in shape quickly and safely - more or less - and she's pushing herself as far as she can go. Trying to find her limits.

Today, she can also be found coming out of the CTS with Kelsier, bruised and mussed and a little bloody, and grinning ear to ear. If you're trying to impress me, it's working, he tells her, and she kisses him on the cheek and flushes bluer and makes her way to the Infirmary to make sure she's got nothing worse than bruises.

She hasn't reached her physical limits yet, but emotional is a different story. Being a child again, with that faith in Charles, has shaken her. Her conversation with Charles before that shook her. And sometimes, even when she's feeling fine - maybe when she's feeling the most fine, paradoxically - she starts crying. And sometimes she can't stop. Tucking herself into a corner of the gardens and trying to muffle the sounds of it so no one catches her at it. It's embarrassing, and she can always eventually manage to pull herself together and make it back to her room. ]

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[ Raven is blue, with red hair, not hiding. ]

What's something you've done here, for the first time? Or thought or realized, for the first time.

[ She's not sure what she's looking for. Maybe a little hope. ]

Comments

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

I found out not all prisons have bars.

[It's both an answer to her statement, and admitting what he himself has learnt. He'd been imprisoned by Manticore's standards, he knew, he hated them, but they were the only tools he had.]

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Do you?

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[notdreaming]

Really. [ The laugh is a little infectious and Kara smiles. ] Talk about timing, right?

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[bodilesswarrior]

I think so.

The Barge - it challenges you, on multiple levels. You face things you never would have, at home. Encounter perspectives you might never have considered.

It's a valuable experience to have, I think.

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[burnmythoughts]

You too, huh?

It's like - you have to work twice as hard to prove you're as good as everyone else. [And maybe she didn't, not really, but it always felt that way.]

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[intelligently]

I think I've seen more new things than done them.

[Private]

[permutates]

Actually showing people what I look like is new too.

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[mistconduct]

For real? How new?

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[ A while later, and she may or may not be giving Snow a braid headband (like so) or something. There has been music. And maybe ice cream. ]

So, you and Alex are friends, right?

[ s u b t l e good keep going Raven. ]

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[permutates]

Well. Thank you.

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[permutates]

I have. I just want him to understand.

[ But the emotions that caused the tears have been interrupted, cracked by the flutter-beat of Raven's heart. It's like how she felt when Erik was close, when his lips pressed against hers. ]

...then I don't have to worry about him and me at the same time.

[Private]

[permutates]

No, they don't. Sometimes you don't even know they're there until you try to push.

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Do I what?

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Do you know why you're here?

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[permutates]

Well... I'm glad you're okay.

I'm Raven, by the way.

What's your planet like?

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[permutates]

It's already so different from what I knew at home.

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[permutates]

They didn't pay much attention to me at all. Except for Erik.

[Private]

[permutates]

I first met other mutants about six months ago. Other mutants besides Charles, I mean.

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[ A pause. ]

I know why I came here. I... the rest might take a little thought.

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[notdreaming]

Thanks. [ She smiles, a bit more sincerely this time. ] I'm Kara. And... I'm not really sure I can explain Krypton all at once. It's really different from Earth.

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[outofclothes]

Don't mention it.

[Really, don't. 8c]

[breathoflight]

[That's a little weird there, Raven, but Snow keeps her skepticism to herself.]

Yes, of course. He was one of the first people to help me when I first arrived on the Barge.

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How much would you say you like him?

[breathoflight]

[Snow looks at Raven a little questioningly. Yep, you are not the smoothest criminal here, gurlfrando.]

How much?

[velocette]

Hard for me to think of humans being different than mutants. You don't look like some separate species--but I guess you could have a different number of chromosomes. I guess for me genus matters more, but people back home are still arguing that people from Asia aren't the same 'type' of person as the guys running small businesses in the city.

[Rambling. This is an interesting topic, but he realizes about partway through she's probably heard this angle before.]

What's your take?