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[charring]

[Charlie, looking a little annoyed and a little tired, has her back against a white wall. And she's surrounded by books. All of them recipe books. She's seated on a floor and she's thumbing through them and if anyone looks carefully, there's a hint of Petrichor's tail sticking out from her zipped up jacket.

Yes, she snuck her cat into the book-store. No, she has no fucks to give about it. She knows the device is on. It switched itself on a few minutes ago and she recognized the little red light for what it was. She just had nothing important to say until now. Her tone is flat and she hardly spares the camera a glance. It's all books right now for her, anyway.]

Everyone survive yesterday alright?

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[charring]

As far as I can tell? People lacked self control.

Hi, Curtis.

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[mrbackwards]

For everything?

[ Small smile. ]

Hi, Charlie. Sorry 'bout that.

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[charring]

Yep. Everything. [A small smile in return.] Don't be. It could have gone significantly worse than it did. Some of the curses around here are awful.

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[mrbackwards]

I don't think I was affected, then. [ Which is a no, Curtis. No you were not. ]

I'm sorry I didn't greet you first; kind of rude. Did something happen with you during the curse?

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[charring]

Ah. Don't worry about it. Manners aren't exactly my forte most days so I didn't notice.

[AND THEN SHE TURNS RED! SO RED. Oh lord.] Well, I was at my boyfriends house when the curse started...

[Fuiuksdyflajshdfjk. God damn it. Subject change!] Settling in alright?

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[mrbackwards]

Well I'd like to keep them, at least. S'all right if you don't.

[ He laughs a little. It's nice to keep his mind a little distracted. ] You lost your self control around your boyfriend?

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[charring]

I'll try harder. You're making me feel ill-mannered. [She manages a laugh, a sheepish as hell look and an eye-roll, trying so hard to play it off.] Yeah. It was...interesting, to say the least. Though, considering my ability and my inability to care about a thing except for what I wanted to do yesterday, I think time with Ed is definitely the lesser of two evils.

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[mrbackwards]

Don't let me make you feel like that.

[ His brows. They are going up. ] Were you going to blow the place up?

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[charring]

Right now, I want to say no but I think yesterday if it had been a thought, I might have? I dunno. We'll stick with no because that's a horrible thought otherwise.

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[mrbackwards]

How strong's your power?

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[charring]

Outside of here? I can hit over twenty thousand degrees. Here? It's halved but still.

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[mrbackwards]

-- shit. Do your best not to lose control of that, yeah? I'll appreciate it.

Are all powers here halved?

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[charring]

I promise. And, yeah. It's kind of annoying. I feel wrong.

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[mrbackwards]

Thanks.

The power I have, it lets me go back in time. Any idea how that'd work in half?

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[charring]

Really? [She knows a mad scientist who would love you, Curtis. He has a car that does that.]

I honestly have no clue. Might be fun to find out so at least you'd know in case there was a need for it.

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[mrbackwards]

Yeah. Helps me fix things when they get fucked up. [ Or his friends die. Y'know. ]

It's different. I don't have much control over it.

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[charring]

Sounds useful. [She can think of at least three situations where that ability would have been helpful in her life, one of which was even before her birth.]

Really? That sort of sucks.

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[mrbackwards]

Usually. [ And then he goes home and sells it and shit sucks. But that's a future he doesn't have to quite deal with yet.

He gives a tight smile. ]

Sort of really sucks.

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[charring]

[Have a small smile right back, Curtis.] Maybe while you're here, you can figure it out? Is it new?

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[mrbackwards]

Not new just... doesn't kick in until something really bad happens. When I panic or something.

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[charring]

That sounds familiar.

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[mrbackwards]

That doesn't sound good.

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[charring]

It wasn't for a while. But, I got it figured out. My dad liked to tell me the brain is a muscle, it just needed exercise.

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[mrbackwards]

Your power used to be like that?

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[charring]

Yep. I've had it since I was born. Imagine how exciting life was for my parents. They took too long to get my bottle to me, I'd freak out and a teddy bear was on fire.