001. grain of sand

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

[ The first thing you hear is the ocean.  There is a slight fog.  Bobby remembers going outside, but he doesn't remember how long he's been on the beach.  And he begins to realize this might be a dream.  He is laying on the sand and sits up.  He wonders if this is going to turn into a nightmare or not.]

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[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

[shrugs]

I like the latest Star Trek movie as much as next person but we're real. There used to be a lot of us.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Used to be? Why not now? [She's alert suddenly, because many scenarios at once present themselves to her mind, none of them pleasant.]

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

[Bobby pauses as he tries to figure out how to answer that.]

Long answer, lots of stuff happened with reality shifts and whatnot. Short answer, magic. There's about 200 mutants left in my world now.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

In my world, on the whole planet, there are eight people with power.

[Herself, the four shitennou, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The other senshi are either dead, or their power broken.

She says it matter-of-factly, quoting a number.]

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

Eight? Just eight?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Just eight. [One from each of the planets they came from, originally; and the shitennou who once defended Earth.]

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

Can't imagine just having eight mutants around. The race would probably just die out then.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Didn't I say it: Even if that happened, without interference, we'd be born again.

[A frustration she won't allow when it comes to the moon princess; she knows how to end even a senshi. But the others- Some day, perhaps, she will face them again.]

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

So you get a do-over every time? You remember everything from your "past life"?

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

It's not like that. [But instead of a rapid, defensive response, she's simply trying to explain it better.]

It's not that clear. Some of us remember more than others. [She pauses before adding what was always important, and what she thinks was true:]

I remember.

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

I don't get these rules very well but that doesn't matter.

Uh, good for you.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[He did ask.]

Did you understand your powers even when you were small?

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

Didn't know I had them when I was small.

sorry about general slowness lately /kicks lj

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

It was the same for me, this time. But now that I know, I want to understand and develop them.

it's okay, happened to everyone

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

You can do a lot with water. It's everywhere.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Including the human body, and she's made ample use of that fact.]

Even the air around us.

[A small ball of water obligingly gathers in the air in front of her.]

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

There you go.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Then, you use the Water the same way I do?

[Or something similar. Could it even be possible that he also spoke with it, relied on it, was served and protected by it?]

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

I can use it to do a lot of things, doesn't mean I know how you do it.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

It's more than that.

[She tries to think of how to explain, how to say it concisely.]

The Water flows inside me. It's a part of me. Mine.

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

[Umm...righttttt.]

Uh, sounds pretty hippie to me.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[And with that, he loses a great amount of her respect.]

Then there's no need for us to speak any longer. Or for me to stay here.

[She turns to go.]

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

[Well that came out of nowhere.]

All right, I guess. See ya.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[She pauses before she's out of earshot, and specifies exactly where it came from, speaking over her shoulder rather than turning around.]

I don't need to be near someone who'll ridicule and insult me when they don't even understand that much.

[The water and her connection to it are important.]

[no-icy-limits.livejournal.com]

[Bobby shrugs.]

Well I didn't mean to insult you or ridicule you. Sorry. But you shouldn't be making many assumptions about me either.