12-15-2014, 10:00 AM
"And here I was thinking you'd been bitten by a radioactive spider or something."
She realised suddenly how much more difficult she found it to read someone when she only had the regular cues to inform her, but she was pretty sure he found her inquisitiveness amusing. She also found she could grin back, despite not having the comforting sense of his emotions with which to synchronise. That was another thing she relied on, but discovered she didn't completely need in order to relate. Though even as she bantered, he felt distant. Like a thousand miles away, a speck on the horizon.
The idea of too many ears gave her pause. His admitting to a lack of memories did too, though both she buried to ponder later. For now she was more enamoured of her company than inclined to be cautious. Both her companions had helped her today. She felt safe.
Once inside the train, Asha scooted into a chair by the window. She loved travelling, any sort; it held a kind of nostalgia she was helpless to resist, the feeling of slicing through the terrain to someplace new and unknown. A little music to accent the hum of the engine and the moment would have been perfect, but all that had been in her car. She could rig up her Wallet she supposed, she'd never really used it for that though, wasn't really sure the old tech would even hold up to the demand.
Nox stopped doing whatever it was that shielded him from her. She smiled brief gratitude, for a moment also adjusting distractedly to the feelings of the other new people in the mostly empty car. "Powers..."
She trailed off, thinking furiously over every piece of folklore she had ever chased across the continent. Others had disappeared from her senses since she'd been in Moscow, which meant... the world had just spectacularly fallen upside down. Strangely she never doubted his explanation. She should be calling this whole thing crazy, but instead she soaked it all up curiously.
Sentient. So she finally had an official name along with the revelation she was no longer alone. Her head was spinning a little, but she mostly took it in stride. Her gaze blinked to Elias, seeking his reaction. Her uncle had seemed to think her abilities would not be favoured by those who learned of them.
She realised suddenly how much more difficult she found it to read someone when she only had the regular cues to inform her, but she was pretty sure he found her inquisitiveness amusing. She also found she could grin back, despite not having the comforting sense of his emotions with which to synchronise. That was another thing she relied on, but discovered she didn't completely need in order to relate. Though even as she bantered, he felt distant. Like a thousand miles away, a speck on the horizon.
The idea of too many ears gave her pause. His admitting to a lack of memories did too, though both she buried to ponder later. For now she was more enamoured of her company than inclined to be cautious. Both her companions had helped her today. She felt safe.
Once inside the train, Asha scooted into a chair by the window. She loved travelling, any sort; it held a kind of nostalgia she was helpless to resist, the feeling of slicing through the terrain to someplace new and unknown. A little music to accent the hum of the engine and the moment would have been perfect, but all that had been in her car. She could rig up her Wallet she supposed, she'd never really used it for that though, wasn't really sure the old tech would even hold up to the demand.
Nox stopped doing whatever it was that shielded him from her. She smiled brief gratitude, for a moment also adjusting distractedly to the feelings of the other new people in the mostly empty car. "Powers..."
She trailed off, thinking furiously over every piece of folklore she had ever chased across the continent. Others had disappeared from her senses since she'd been in Moscow, which meant... the world had just spectacularly fallen upside down. Strangely she never doubted his explanation. She should be calling this whole thing crazy, but instead she soaked it all up curiously.
Sentient. So she finally had an official name along with the revelation she was no longer alone. Her head was spinning a little, but she mostly took it in stride. Her gaze blinked to Elias, seeking his reaction. Her uncle had seemed to think her abilities would not be favoured by those who learned of them.