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[Most of Chekov's entries start with a nice shot of whatever project he's working on or a disjointed preamble. This one, however, simply starts.]

For those who knew them, Doctor Leonard McCoy and Theresa Gray have left the City.

[It was quite a shock to find them both gone once midnight had rolled around and the weekend's curse passed. Chekov is still a little too stunned to process the information himself, but it feels important to let the network know that they have left.

He pauses as if he would like to say something else. When no words come to mind, he goes with the sign-off that's standard when making ship-wide announcements at home.]

Thank you for your time.

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[Lena's still super impressed that he's done so much already in his life.]

Oh, yeah. Some people here know, and some don't.

[She blows out a breath.]

It's mainly just because our worlds shouldn't overlap. But people are closed-minded and would probably try to round us up for experimentation or something.

If I may ask, what are your powers?

Or they would be afraid of you. Those are the reactions to anomalies: study or fear. I'm sorry that you must hide.

They're not really a defined set of powers. I wake up and can do something I couldn't the day before, so there's lots of stuff. Move objects, affect the weather, shoot fire, make things appear and disappear, erase memories... I could go on all day, but I'll spare you.

[She shrugs.]

People are already afraid of me. That's why they lash out and treat me like crap.

No, please, go on all day if you like! I have never heard of one person having so many different powers.

[As impressed as he is by Lena's abilities, the second bit is not a happy thing to talk about.]

Surely no one does that in the City? At home, sometimes, it was like that, but no one in the City is unkind where abilities are concerned. This is one of the reasons Tessa liked it here. She is treated like a monster at home, but no one thought of her as one while she was here.

[She smiles a bit shyly at that. Usually she gets nothing but trouble for having so many powers.]

No, this was just at home. The people here are really cool about it. If it wasn't for the curses and not having my family and friends here, I'd say this place was way better.

[She talked with Tessa over the phone, and there was nothing about her that seems to scream monster at all. Maybe she was just hated for something she couldn't help, like Lena.]

We have that in common. I'm sorry she's gone, Pavel. I really am.

The curses do detract from the City's appeal, as does being separated from everyone at home.

[Tessa had powers, but she didn't use them. Chekov all but forgot that she had them and treated her as he would treat anyone else... and she returned the favor. While Chekov has never been accused of being a monster, he has been considered something of a freak. But again, no one in the City minds.]

There is no need to be sorry. It is worse news for Tessa than it is for me.

Yeah, true.

[Lena, you're going to make him all depressed again!]

So, umm, wanna see me do something with my Caster magic?

You would show me magic? For all of the magic users I have met, I have yet to see magic.

Yeah, sure. Let me see...

[After a moment's thought, she turns the camera away to face a wall in her apartment. Immediately black writing appears as if an invisible hand is writing in cursive with a Sharpie. After a good twenty seconds or so of work, it says:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. ]

There; how's that?

That is remarkable! I have seen telekinesis--at home, I mean, at home--but nothing like that. How do you do it? Is it a matter of thinking things into being?

Pretty much, yeah. Things just happen. Like...

[She turns the phone around to show a vase on an end table levitate and move over to the coffee table. In the background, her cat hisses and darts off the couch, going to hide.]

Oops. Sorry, Desi. He doesn't like me using my powers.

Most impressive! Thank you, but you should stop, maybe, if your cat doesn't like it. Desi, you said?

Yeah. They're such a part of me, though, that it's hard to stop. But he's still a kitty, Desi. I'll bet he'll get used to it.

I hope that he will.

Lena, is there anything that you cannot do with your powers?

[She gives it some thought. Bringing someone back from the dead? Check. Splitting the moon in two? Check. This may take awhile for her to actually think up something.]

I doubt I can stop the world from turning.

[Well. That's quite a lot that she can do. Really, Chekov's deeply impressed.]

I don't think that is a bad thing. Stopping the world from turning--that would do no good.

[And yet it brings its own set of troubles with it.]

Yeah, we'd probably lose gravity, right? And go flying off into space.

There is that, yes. I like your magic, but I would be very upset if you broke physics and the world came to an end.

I'm glad you like it.

[And that he doesn't think she's a freak.]

Yeah, that wouldn't be my best day, if that ended up happening.

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