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[ex_erring42]

Very funny City. And Deities. That ability to control fire that I got? I need it back. ASAP.

You know how we can't fucking survive without oxygen or how some people can't function without smoking at least a pack of cigarettes a day? Yeah. That's kind of how I'm feeling right now without my mutant power.

So give it the fuck back. Right now.

I'm not waiting a day for this shitty curse to be over.

-- not your average fucking joe --

Comments

[ex_erring42]

Only way I know how to get to them. You got a better idea, feel free to suggest.

[errandry]

Find some matches and deal with it. Those guys'd better be dying.

[ex_erring42]

Matches? Are you fucking kidding me? What am I gonna do with a bunch of matches?

[errandry]

I dunno, what were you gonna do with the fire control?

[ex_erring42]

It's my power and I haven't had to live without it since I turned 13. You really want specifics?

[errandry]

... sure?

[ex_erring42]

[ Long pause as he tries to figure out if this kid's for real. ]

For fuck's sake, use your imagination. It's useful, okay. Just real fucking useful.

What, you don't have some kind of a special ability?

[errandry]

Nah. 100% human and useless. And I figured the useful part! Just kinda missing how matches won't work for twenty hours.

[ex_erring42]

I don't create fire. I just control it, so being unable to control fire just kind of sucks right now. You get it?

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[errandry]

[ quiet on this side of the line for a moment, but for desert static. ]

Sorry.

[errandry]

... S'there anything you'd burn right now, anyway? If you could pick anything here.

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[ex_erring42]

Nope, can't think of anything, but that's not the point. The point is, I feel like I'm missing a goddamn limb right now. [ He's also apparently a big whiny baby. ]

[ex_erring42]

Who are you anyways?

[errandry]

Yeah, that's kinda what I figured. Let me know if you think of something, then, I guess.

I go by Kazu. You?

[ex_erring42]

Pyro.

You new around here?

[errandry]

I wish I was new. Pyro—you pick that yourself, or s'it just the world's weirdest coincidence?

[ex_erring42]

Huh. Guess we've just never met.

It's a codename I started using after I joined the Brotherhood of Mutants.

[errandry]

[ pauuuuse. ]

You know, here it's kinda hard to tell if you're serious.

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[ex_erring42]

Why? You think mutants are a fucking joke?

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[ex_erring42]

Just messing with you.

I get it. The whole Brotherhood of Mutants think sounds weird, but I'm serious.

You even know what a mutant is?

[errandry]

I'm gonna guess totally human-looking but with superpowers.

[ex_erring42]

They're not all totally human looking, but yeah.

[errandry]

Calling it a brotherhood makes it sound like a religion, though. Or some kinda military order.

[ex_erring42]

Well, we fought the government, and I was a soldier.

What were you doing back home?

[errandry]

... huh. Same thing as here, I guess. I'm on a Storm Rider team.