Seattle Summer Showoff

[basic_powers]

As they exist from the narrow door of the linen closet for his apartment, Dinah will see two doors down the hallway to her left. One has a biohazard sign hanging from it, and the other is part-way open, enough that one can see the window and bed inside. There's a couple of photos hanging from the wall, one of Beauford and a blonde young woman laughing with the lights of a carnival in the twilight background, and one with Beauford and a reddish-brown haired man in a repurposed tan flightsuit, grinning in front of a college graduation ceremony.

To her right, she'll see that Beauford was infact not exaggerating at all about the shoebox size of his apartment's kitchen, as there is only a tiny island seperating it from the small living room. There's a well-used black futon and coffee table with a little black laptop on top of magazines and comic books. Against the wall there's a shelf with a flatscreen tv, several videogame consoles and a dvd/bluray player. Light filters through the curtain outside and Dinah can likely see the door out of the apartment with three bicycles hanging from hooks beside it on the wall, and pannier bags for the bikes hung with coats and hats from the coat rack.

It doesn't take much guessing to figure out that the blue and gunmetal bike is Beauford's from the homemade welds and adjustments given to it.

"Welcome to my humble bachelor pad...I'd give you the tour but this is pretty much it."

Comments

[basic_powers]

"But think of all the good that'd come of giving it to the local restaurants...the world's largest lobster thermidor!"

[raptorcanaria]

"The entire city would overdose on..."

Dinah frowns. "What's in lobster you can get too much of?"

[basic_powers]

"Salt." He's grinning. "It's a naturally salty flavored flesh."

[raptorcanaria]

"Salt," Dinah says, glad for the nutritional lesson. "See? We did them a favour!"

[basic_powers]

"Saved them from a salty fate of their crabdular overlord poisoning their town!"

[raptorcanaria]

"Exactly," Dinah says, smugly.

"I don't think I'd want to eat one of those, anyway," she adds, pulling a face. "They don't look appetizing."

[basic_powers]

"If you've ever eaten Maine Lobster you've eaten one of them, believe me." Beauford grins, moving onto a diagram of the blue whale.

"The blue whale, the largest known mammalian species and the largest oceanic species.." He's reading aloud softly before looking up.. "Looking at the above speci...men...pfft."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah, is again, already looking up, across the whole ceiling of the huge hall, eyes on the skeleton suspended.

"Well, I knew they were big."

[basic_powers]

"...pffffft..ah I mean...well, they're certainly accurate with this model aren't they?" He's snickering into his hand a little, looking up.

[raptorcanaria]

...

...

"They have a bone there?"

[basic_powers]

"Apparently...seals do too..."

[raptorcanaria]

"I have never been more glad to be a human."

[basic_powers]

"Amen to that." Beauford amends, looking away from the mammals to examine the octopus climbing around inside of it's tank.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah bends towards the octopus to watch it move.

"Now that looks more tasty."

[basic_powers]

It's a slow movement as it places suckers along the glass of it's tank to move about...and then squeeze itself into a tiny, tiny plexiglas box through a small hole.

"...now that's a contortionist." Beauford grins at Dinah before perking up and moving over to a much more colorful exhibit...a coral reef display with anemones, fronds of algae and coral species growing carefully..with tiny cleaner crabs and several fish in residence, namely clownfish and a couple of blue tangs. "Ooooh."

[raptorcanaria]

"Oh, beautiful," Dinah breathes, grinning and crouching down against the tank, following all the movements. "So much colour!"

[basic_powers]

"Australian tropical reef habitat...great barrier reef." Beauford reads from a little plaque below the tank. "Thought to be the world's largest collective organism."

[raptorcanaria]

"Wait, what is?" Dinah says, drawing back to read the label. "The entire thing? Wow, that's awesome."

And she draws back a little to look at the coral with a different eye.

[basic_powers]

"...no wonder your buddy Aquaman is so hard on for keeping the waters safe for life. Something that awesome should be left for other generations to see."

[raptorcanaria]

"I say that about the whole planet," Dinah says.

"But it's nice to be reminded some of what we're trying to save."

[basic_powers]

"Yeah.." He's still smiling and watching the tank when something growls softly.

"...er. Maybe we should start thinking about that pizza place now."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah turns her head to the side and down, eying his belly.

"Classy," she remarks.

[basic_powers]

"Honestly, I think the talk about eating the monsters might've been a sign." He grins, taking out one of the snack bars and unwrapping it. It's a pretty good bike ride to the pizza place. "You want to get anything at the gift shop on the way out?"

[raptorcanaria]

"I wanna see what they have," Dinah decides.

But as she says that, she's looking at a plush octopus.

[basic_powers]

...yeah, like he's going to stand between Dinah and whatever she wants to pick up.

"...hey they have lobster socks!"