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[citharede]

[ The girl on the feed is lying on her stomach on one of the barracks-style beds. Her hair is wet--freshly showered--and she's dressed in one of the spa bath robes. ]

So this place is fuckmazing. Free spa? Fresh food? Free booze? Yes please and thank you. Also these little dragon dudes are like the best thing to ever exist.

[ She points the camera toward one of the little dragons, who's going to town on a bowl of ice chips covered in hot sauce. The camera wobbles then focuses back on her. ]

His name is Stanley and I'll murder anyone who touches him. Just saying.

Oh, right, hey, I'm Athena Parker and I'm never leaving.

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[citharede]

Oh man, I don't know this place yet, uh. Outside that tequila sunrise bar?

[itsnotaonesie]

Outside the bar, got it. I'm on my way, see you there.

[He's jumping off a walkway and fucking swinging there, off he gooooes]

[citharede]

[ UNSURPRISINGLY, he beats her there, but not by a lot. She comes running from the little barracks area in bare feet, communicator in one hand, the other hand holding her robe shut as the knot she tied around it starts to unravel. Stanley perches on her shoulder, trilling mild alarm at the rush.

Athena skids to a halt in front of Peter and holds the communicator up. ] This fucker had better have a record function.

[itsnotaonesie]

[AND YUP, Here's Peter, but he looks a little surprised when he sees her just roll up in A ROBE???]

I-- you're wearing something under that, right? I can wait if you wanna like. Put pants on?

[citharede]

[ She blinks at him, then looks down at herself. ] The clothes I showed up in were nasty and I haven't found new ones yet. What's wrong with the robe?

[ Just gonna HIKE IT SHUT and tighten the knot again. ]

Relax, my guy, I'm way too gay for you anyway.

[itsnotaonesie]

Fair enough. When we're done here I can help you track down some new stuff if you want.

[Speaking of why he's here, he crouches a bit, preparing to backflip his ass up to the ceiling,]

Those do have a record function, by the way. Let me know when you're ready.

[citharede]

That would be awesome.

[ She fusses with the communicator, Stanley crawling from her shoulder onto her arm. ]

Okay-- All right. I think I've got it. Do your thing.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Omg Stanley's so goooood I love him

Peter gives her a nod, adjusts his footing a little bit, and jumps, flipping in the air and crouching up on the ceiling. TA-DAAAAAAAA]

See? Spider-Man.

[citharede]

[ Just. Give her a second to stare. Stanley is indeed a good boy and climbs from her arm up onto her head, rearing back on his hind legs to try fruitlessly to reach Peter. ]

Holy. Shit. You're Spider-Man. A really young Spider-Man, the guy in the comics was like thirty.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Peter reaches as hard as he can to poke Stanley's nose, but nope, he's just a little too far.]

That is wild. In the last place I was stuck, I met another me that was like thirty. He was taller than me, too. That was annoying.

[He's gonna just stop goofing around on the ceiling now and drop back down in front of her.]

So part of me wants to know how closely your comic book me's life lines up with mine, but I also think that might be kind of weird?

[citharede]

That might be really weird. [ Said in a tone of LET'S DO IT. She puts a hand up to steady Stanley as the dragon sits down. ] You know what else is really weird? Kylo Ren is here. Wait, do you even know who that is? Do those movies exist for you? We have to find the old ones in that Blockbuster place if you've never seen them, because Star Wars is amazing.

[itsnotaonesie]

[He is so ready to dive into some weird comic book shit BUT THEN he just looks at her like she just gave him the worst news he's ever gotten. Because he kind of has.]

I-- okay, we do have Star Wars, I know who Kylo Ren is, and in the last place I was stuck he was there and he wanted to kill me. Aaaaand that's not ideal.

[citharede]

[ Okay hold on there are a few pieces of that she needs to sort out. ]

The last place you were stuck? [ Because that is important information. She gives Peter a look that's somewhere between apologetic and like she just got caught breaking an expensive action figure. ]

I could like... talk to him? Maybe? He Force-choked me for calling him Adam Driver but I kind of earned it. Well, he Force-choked me for trying to use magic on him, which yeah I earned it. He seemed pretty okay after though?

[itsnotaonesie]

I can't believe you called him Adam Driver.

[Not the most important thing to take away from this, but hey.]

But yeah, it was called Hadriel, the last place I was. There's a few of us here that were stuck there for a while. But-- I mean, there's a lot to unpack here? He Force-choked you and you have magic. This is nuts.

[citharede]

I thought he was! He looked like he was! How was I supposed to know he was actually really Kylo Ren, I hadn't met Spider-Man yet!

[ THIS PLACE IS SO CRAZY. ]

Right? I got Force-choked by the real Kylo Ren and lived to tell him how cool it was. And it wasn't a big spell or anything. [ She looks briefly uncomfortable, lifting Stanley off her head and settling him into her arms. ]

It was something... I made it up to... I just really wanted to see his lightsaber. I thought it was a prop!

[itsnotaonesie]

I-- okay, fair. That sounds like something I would have done back when I was new to all this stuff.

[His Star Wars nerdery was what had gotten him on Kylo's shit list back in Hadriel anyway so he has no room to talk.]

Are you really gonna sit there and tell me you can do magic and then play it off like it's no big deal?

[citharede]

Well, first off, I'm standing. [ Important point. ]

But yeah? I mean, it isn't. I'm not even someone with a super rare Ritual or something, I'm just a bard.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Cue eyeroll, but in a playful sort of way.]

That's like a music wizard, right? Like in D&D? That sounds awesome!

[citharede]

[ She stares at him for a second, stroking Stanley's scales, clearly at a loss for what to say.

She's gotten so used to being reviled for various reasons that having someone say her abilities are awesome is dumbfounding. The most innocent thing she's been told about being a bard is that she's a flake. ]

Yeah, like D&D. That's where the name came from, actually, it's slang, we're not really-- [ Suddenly, blurted out: ] You really think it's cool?

[itsnotaonesie]

Oh hell yeah, I think it's awesome! Like, I can stick to walls and stuff, but I can't do magic just by playing music.

[Peter's just so impressed by people with cool powers ok. And people without powers. And honestly he just loves everyone so much ok]

[citharede]

[ Athena gives a tentative smile that slowly turns into a grin. ]

I mostly work with my voice these days. Can't really haul a piano around to busk. My commune has flutes and violins and a couple of guitars, so we manage pretty good.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Yeaaah Peter has that affect on people.]

I'm not even sure if we really have any musical instruments around here. What all do you play?

[citharede]

Just piano, but I want to learn guitar. I know a few scales, and a piano is not an instrument you can move between squats easily.

[ A one-shouldered shrug, as she tries to play off how much she misses her instrument of choice. ]

Haven't had a chance to play in a while.

[itsnotaonesie]

That's still better than I can do. I dropped out of marching band after the spider thing happened.

[Peter now fully intends to search this place top to bottom to find her some INSTRUMENTS he wants to see the magic ok.]

[citharede]

Dude, you went off and started saving lives and shit, kinda more important than marching band. And besides, you can learn while we're here, can't you? We just gotta find the stuff to do it.

[ Aw Peter you're a good bean. She's now also determined but for 'somehow-gonna-teach-him-what-I-don't-know' reasons. ]