Seattle, the invitation for Dinah

[basic_powers]

He is a man of his word, and one more than capable of figuring out how to get people in and out of his world with little issue. That's why he and Dinah emerge from the third stall of the Unisex bathroom of the Seattle Public Library. It's clean, quiet, and most importantly of all, devoid of security cameras.

"Be this portal ever so humble."

Comments

[basic_powers]

"......History major? ...Bad Fuedal era joke."

[raptorcanaria]

"I don't even get it in context," Dinah says cheerfully. "I dropped out of college to get married."

[basic_powers]

...Count Beauford boggled as he just stares.

"...uhm..erm."

[raptorcanaria]

"What?" Dinah says, guiltily. "You never met a college drop out before?"

[basic_powers]

"Acutally, I'm stuck on the part where you said you were married. You mentioned dropping out of college before." He says, quietly, recovering from the train of thought derailing.

[raptorcanaria]

"For like, three months," Dinah saya hastily. "It was a terrible idea and a terrible marriage."

[basic_powers]

"...well, at least you got out of it quickly." Beauford, replies softly. "I'm sorry that it came to that."

[raptorcanaria]

That's a drmaaic reactio to just another chapter in the history of Dinah's terrible taste in men. She frowns.


"...something I'm missing?"

[basic_powers]

"...Bad relationship, commitment rings, everything. Four months later.." He waves his mittened hand not quite looking her in the eye. "...Three years ago."

[raptorcanaria]

"Ow," Dinah says, with feeling. "I'm sorry, Beauford."

[basic_powers]

"...I'm not so much these days." He smiles. "Bad memories, certainly, but they are gone."

Beat, along with a very happy smile. Make that a very dorky happy smile.

"And I've been seeing someone else these days."

[raptorcanaria]

"Oh?"

Yay gossip! "Anyone I know?"

[basic_powers]

"No, not likely, 'local' girl." He says with a smile. "Never quite found her way to that hole in the wall we both enjoy."

[raptorcanaria]

"Am I going to meet her?" Dinah insists gently.

[basic_powers]

"She said she'd be working tonight, but..." A dawning look of 'oh shit' comes over his face.

"...crap."

[raptorcanaria]

"Crap what?"

[basic_powers]

"...what do you call going out on a Parkour run with a strange girl?" Someone Beauford might not have mentioned before?

[raptorcanaria]

"'My crazy cousin's in town and Mom made me hang out with her'," Dinah informs him easily.

[basic_powers]

"....tttthhhat might work. Change 'Mom' to 'Aunt'." Beauford murmurs. "Might work."

[raptorcanaria]

"Not my first time," Dinah points out. "If that won't work there's always 'friend of the family'. No one cares how parents know all these random people."

[basic_powers]

"...daughter of my aunt's friend." Other family relations are not so great at the moment. "I could always say you're a friend of Uncle Ray."

"Here's the stop we'll want to transfer at."

[raptorcanaria]

"Works for me," Dinah says with an easy air. She follows Beauford out of the bus, covering her nose and mouth with her mittens against the cold.

Waiting for the next one, she does a coupl of experimental clearings of the throat, holding her fingers against her neck.

[basic_powers]

"It's not still sore, is it?"

Beauford asks mildly, moving back and forth in place to warm up as they wait.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah shakes her head. "Nah, just like knowing if it's there or not. Some worlds it is, some it isn't."

For the record, she's pretty certain it is, here.

[basic_powers]

"...it should be here, but...wow." He murmurs looking surprised. "That is one weird thing to have happen to a superpower, I have to say."