6 ✶ video/action ✶ fourth wall

[walkersystem]

... did everybody get their powers back?

[A video that's short and sweet and shows cautious excitement, but also a trace of fear.]

It's not another dream, right?


[Action anywhere: Guess who REALLY LIKES HAVING HER POWER BACK? It's Molly. She's gonna be leaning back against a tree with her knees drawn up and her Johto and Kanto map books against her legs, flipping through and marking stuff that follows some kind of logic that's not immediately apparent.]

[That is, when she's not just looking around somewhat anxiously - she's confident she'll find her way back since she can see people again, but she still doesn't like the shifting world all that much. It's unpredictable. She could end up anywhere, and she does; the shifting routes can lead you pretty stray even when you're just trying to get back to Goldenrod.]

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[ACTION]

[garbagechild]

_{[His answer is simple and matter-of-fact.]}

Lookin' at YOU lookin' at stuff!

<sub>[Duh, Molly!]

[He lets his arms drop from their fold to dangle, monkey-like, and point at the marks she's making on the map.]</sub>

What're all those?

[ACTION]

[walkersystem]

Just marks. So I know where people are.

_{[She drops her pen into the middle of the pages to function as a temporary bookmark.]}

How long have you been up there?

[ACTION]

[garbagechild]

Oh, awhile.

<sub>[He swings a little bit, contentedly-- and it's at that point that Molly might notice that he's not hanging from his knees. His bare feet are planted against the underside of the branch, and there's bark coating them, almost like they're growing straight into the wood. The patterns even creep up to his ankles.]

[He doesn't seem remotely bothered by this.]</sub>

Those look like a buncha squiggles to me. How does it tell you where people are?

[ACTION]

[walkersystem]

It's their names! Like ... here. this J is for Jimmy. He's over here.

<sub>[She stands up to show him, pointing at the mark she made somewhere close to Azalea. And it's when she does stand up that she sees what's up with Wrath's feet.]

[Which, okay, that's really new.]

[So she takes a step back and gapes for a second, but then she smiles.]</sub>

That's your power, right?

[ACTION]

[garbagechild]

_{[He grins widely, bending his knees a little to get a swinging motion going.]}

Ahuh!


I can do alchemy!

_{[With a crackling sound, he yanks one foot free of the wood-- the bark remaining on his skin for a moment before melting away, back into flesh.]}

Things like me aren't s'pposed to be able to do that. But I can.

It's what makes me special!

_{[He yanks the other foot free and promptly plummets to the ground, where he lands in a ball and rolls a couple of feet before uncurling and sitting up in the grass, looking pleased as punch.]}

[ACTION]

[walkersystem]

You're not a thing.

You're just special.

<sub>[She has to assume, anyway. Cause she's not a thing, she's just special. And she gets that he's kinda different from her, but she doesn't see how he's not a person, so whatever.]

[She sits down again, in front of him, and closes the book and puts it in her backpack.]</sub>

Can you do that with everything?

[ACTION]

[garbagechild]

_{[Wrath may not really say much of anything in response to that first bit, but somewhere down under that wild mane of hair, something clicks, and he smiles wider and clasps his hands over his feet, soles together.]}

Ahuh.

The ground, the grass, rock, metal... even other people, if I wanted.

I haven't done that though, 'cept when I got my arm and leg. That was a long time ago.

It's really useful.