18 * [accidental video]

[starchilde_lost]

[The video feed opens on a darkened bedroom, sparse, looks like it's in one of the empty apartments somewhere in the City. There's a young woman on the bed, Rachel, gripped in a nightmare, tossing and turning. Suddenly, her eyes open and she sits up in bed, a blue, raptor-shaped aura flaring to life around her.]

Gram'pa! No!

[The aura fades as she buries her face in her hands. On her back you can just make out the outline of a black raptor underneath her top, it looks like a tattoo. With a jerk, Rachel looks up and around the room.]

...get a grip, Grey, Korvus isn't here, none of them are.

[She mutters to herself a bit more, some choice Shi'ar curses if you understand it, and finally spies the Network device recording on the nightstand. She stops and stares at it.]

Crap.

...Um, shit.

[She flares blue again and reaches toward the device. The feed ends.]

[audio]

I suppose it's too much to ask that you all just forgot you saw that for a few more days, isn't it?

[ooc: Forward-dated to late tonight because I might try and sleep early (ha!), and a warm City!welcome-back to Rachel. Scotty and Chekov - feel free to realize that Rachel was the source of that energy you were chasing.]

Comments

[starchilde_lost]

Crap. I knew that. Sorry, my memory of the City's still a little fuzzy.

Because, you know, that makes it more fun or something.

[knockoff-hero.livejournal.com]

So...did a lot of time pass for you? Because when I went home it wasn't even for a week.

[starchilde_lost]

I got a couple of really rocky years under my belt.

I think you got the better end of the bargain.

[knockoff-hero.livejournal.com]

Well, I won't pry.

Yeah, definitely. So far I've been lucky with stuff here--it makes me nervous, actually, but I'm thankful.

[starchilde_lost]

You know, unofficially you've officially jinxed yourself now.

[knockoff-hero.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm knocking on wood. Course, the circus curse wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs and yesterday was bundles of awkward, so maybe I'm good for the next week or so.

[starchilde_lost]

Were you... cursed yesterday?

[knockoff-hero.livejournal.com]

Not me, no.

Not that anything really happened.

[starchilde_lost]

Really?

[knockoff-hero.livejournal.com]

My roommate suddenly got a thing for facial hair.

[starchilde_lost]

For...Jaime, who's your roommate, again?

[knockoff-hero.livejournal.com]

Her name's Kara. Also goes by Supergirl. She's the one person I know from home.

She also flies faster than me.

[ooc: logging this as we speak.]

[starchilde_lost]

I know Kara - she's... persistent. And I won't ask any more.