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Post by Nathan Cloud on Jan 12, 2017 19:06:17 GMT
Nathan passed Herbert a coffee with a smile. 'My pop-culture references are great. I'm a regular Shaun Spencer. You do know who that is right?' he asked, looking concerned.
'Besides,' he sat down. 'I know how you feel.' 'Golden Years by David Bowie reached the second verse and Nathan started singing.
'Yesterday they loved you, Opening doors and pulling some strings, Herrrbberrt!' He didn't have a bad singing voice! He stopped and grinned as the music ended suddenly.
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Jan 12, 2017 19:16:37 GMT
"Yeah, of course," Herbert lied, drinking his coffee quickly so he didn;t have to answer anything else.
Herbert's empathy was working; when Nathan said he understood he felt genuine emotion. Herbert smiled, softening towards the crazy old man. Then he started singing. Herbert dutifully ignored this and asked: "What do you mean? About understanding? And when are you going to teach me stuff? Orv was this just a ploy to get me to hang out with you?" Herbert joked.
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Post by Nathan Cloud on Jan 12, 2017 19:23:02 GMT
'Shaun is from Psych! Come on, everyone knows that. But, fine whatever.'
He took a long swing from his coffee and looked at Herbert carefully. 'I didn't have my powers before, but I always lived among superhumans. It's fun to be their equal, and I can tell that that is what you've been missing. Now, I have a hunch about your powers, but its going to take time for me to fully figure out. So I promise a test!'
He pulled out a milk jug and poured it all into his coffee, which turned a sickly shade of brown, like what was left of the colour in Nathan's beard.
'I challenge you to a game of wits! The milk is in one of the glasses! You choose, and we both drink, and one of us dies!' Nathan smirked. 'Sorry I really can't help myself.'
'I want you to turn your hand brown. Think, about the fun of it. It's exciting! Going anyway, doing anything. Have fun Herbert, and you will change colour. Just don't turn purple and pass out, okay?'
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Jan 12, 2017 19:35:57 GMT
Herbert let it go and turned to the coffee. "Looks like your beard," he joked. "What's left of it. But sure, sounds good. At least it's not jumping off buildings," he smiled. He was hit by a thought and pointed at Nathan. "I don't know if this helps but I had a dream about you - not a weird one- where you flew off a building," he told him. "I don't know if it's important but I thought you should know."
With that he turned to the coffee. "The game ends when one of us it wins and the other is dead," Herbert quoted quietly. He knew that one. "Okay... so I think fun thoughts? I've tried something like this with Aurora's power and it didn't work," he said quickly before turning his mind to it. He held his hand over coffee , trying to imagine his hand changing colour. It would be fun, to be invisible... he strained but he just couldn't feel like he was reaching for anything.
"I don't know, Nathan...," he said doubtfully. "Why do you think I'm capable of this again?"
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Post by Nathan Cloud on Jan 12, 2017 19:59:12 GMT
'Haha, you're a fuckin regular comedian,' Nathan said. 'My beard happens to be very nice actually, its just rocking the bed-head look.' He paused when Herbert mentioned the roof thing. 'You know I said I could control elements... No, no its too soon. We'll talk about that one later. You need to turn your hand into shit first.'
He nodded when Herbert said he hadn't tried this before. 'Look, that's because you weren't doing it right. You really have to think about it; why I like it. Use that little party trick that lets you read people's thoughts or whatever. Gather that and really... become it. Let it consume you and it should work. I know that you can do this, Herbert, because I know who you are. You're a special kid.'
Nathan paused. 'Maybe you aren't ready yet.'
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Jan 12, 2017 21:21:47 GMT
Herbert frowned. That sounded right, weirdly enough. "Okay," he breathed. "Let's try that." He took a deep breath, looking up. "You mind if I take your hand? I don't, I don't think I can read you that well without- well, maybe it'll work." Without waiting for a response he took Nathan's hand and focused on Nathan; one stupid jokes and a feeling of freedom. Actually, he could relate to that feeling of being part of the world you'd always looked into. Finally. Nathan was locked out from his friends and Herbert was locked out from his parents.
His hand started to flicker, changing to a brown colour, before turning back to its normal colour. Herbert let out a deep breath, feeling drained. "I cant- I can't keep it." He looked up at Nathan. "How do you know I'm special?"
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Post by Nathan Cloud on Jan 12, 2017 21:29:12 GMT
'Because you just did something very special, Herbert, that's why,' Nathan said, looking pleased. 'That's very good, and also enough for tonight!' Nathan got up. 'You've got lessons tomorrow, and I've got an all-nighter to do. There's a bar with my name on it!'
He started to walk away, and said; 'Meet me at the square tomorrow. I have a plan to unlock your potential!' Then he disappeared.
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Jan 12, 2017 21:32:29 GMT
Herbert looked after him. When though? Just accepting it and feeling slightly better about himself he trudged off back to accomodations.
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Post by Plague Doctor on Jan 13, 2017 13:59:30 GMT
Olem walked into the cafe, extinguishing his cigarette, and made his way towards the front of the store, and bought himself a black coffee before making his way towards a table.
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Post by UraharaSteph on Jan 13, 2017 14:10:07 GMT
Aurora walked into the café with the others. She ordered a black coffee and bagel. Then added on a slice of strawberry cheesecake to the order. It had been a rough night, the cheesecake was deserved. She picked up her tray and moved to the table. She gazed into the steam from her mug for a few moments before smiling. “I wonder if they will suspend lectures for a while since two chaotic situations happened in one week.” She poked a strawberry with her fork, pushing it around on top of the slice.
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Jan 13, 2017 14:11:06 GMT
Herbert followed after them, instead getting a hot chocolate, and a breakfast wrap, before heading to the same table as Olem. He sat down and dipped his mouth in the cream; he remembered a time when he'd made a beard out of it on his dad's face when he was a child. Long time ago...
"You okay today, Olem? After the 'fun' last night," he said sarcastically.
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Post by Plague Doctor on Jan 13, 2017 14:16:50 GMT
"It gave me a faint feeling of nostalgia" Olem said, not rising to Herbert's bait "what about you eh? Did you have fun?" his grin was feral, and he took a quick sip from his coffee, before turning to look at Aurora. "It's breakfast, why have you got cheesecake?" he asked, mildly perplexed by her choice of food.
"I imagine there will be an investigation into the security of this University" he said "But I imagine there might be a one week pause, University schedules are tight from what I've heard so I doubt they'll stave off too much".
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Post by UraharaSteph on Jan 13, 2017 14:22:17 GMT
“I have a breakfast bagel as well.” She said as she ate the strawberry. “But last night made me realise life is too short not to have cheesecake for breakfast.” She blew on her coffee. “You're right about the university though; they very rarely drift off schedule.” She broke some of the cheesecake onto her fork and held it out in general to the others. “Did anyone want a bite?”
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Post by Flynneus_Knight on Jan 13, 2017 14:23:40 GMT
"No," Herbert replied bluntly to Olem's earlier question, disturbed by a number of things with Olem. He just felt weird and he seemed to be getting worse. Herbert remembered what Nathan had said about letting his empathy out more, about embracing it, so he let it loose, letting various emotions wash over him. He got anger from Olem, but a sadistic kind; he had enjoyed beating Ruin, in a way. It almost made Herbert recoil back into himself.
"I doubt it; seems a lot of work to do for one incident I guess. I just feel like they'll go ahead."
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Post by dbzbabe on Jan 13, 2017 14:27:10 GMT
Chris also had followed the others into the cafe. She placed her bag down under the table they were sat at and took out her purse from one of the pockets on it. Going to the counter, she order herself a cappuccino and a bacon butty. It was still before eleven o'clock so a cappuccino was still socially acceptable. Once she had her things, she returned to sit with the others and began to consume her bacon sandwich rather piggishly ironically enough.
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