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[63rd_shockwave]

[After she took her son to tour the Unity Group base, Sarah...vanished. For a solid week, she didn't show up at all. Recently she's been around, but hasn't talked to people too much...she never was really a huge buddy-buddy team member, though, so that sort of thing isn't odd.

It is odd when, out of the blue, she'll walk up to you and engage conversation. Her right arm is bandaged up as well, for some reason.]

Hey, are you free? I...kinda want to hang out.

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[jianai]

No, of course not! What gave you this impression?

[63rd_shockwave]

Sorry, it's just...

...you're really excited. It's...a little weird.

[jianai]

It's just that, others seem reluctant to spend time with me, for some reason. My presence is tolerated, and I am glad for that, but I found that others rarely go talk to me on their own.

I am not that weird, am I?

[63rd_shockwave]

Well, it's just...you're like, really happy. All the time. And, you know, not everyone always wants to hang out with a really happy person.

[jianai]

That's true, especially when the times are not so happy. You may appear as someone too ignorant to realize what's going on. Or worse, as someone who knows but doesn't care, or even taunts others by acting this way.

In my case though, I both realize what's up, and I take no pleasure in others' suffering. Still, I can't help it. This smiling face is here to stay, no matter what happens.

Well, enough of this depressing topic!

[Ren rubs their hands.]

Do you prefer loud places full of people, or quieter ones Sarah?

[63rd_shockwave]

Definitely the quieter ones. No contest there.

[jianai]

I know just the place! Follow me, it's not too far away.

[Of course it's not too far away, it's Alhambra's reading room.]

What kind of books do you like, Sarah?

[63rd_shockwave]

Ah, I've never been much of a...reading person...so, uh, I don't really know. I used to like comic books a lot, though.

[jianai]

What kind of comic books?

[63rd_shockwave]

Sports ones, mostly. Before my powers started manifesting, I did a lot of athletics stuff...um, and superhero stuff. I'm a bit less into it now, though...

[jianai]

Because you have it in real life?

I remember reading a sports series once. It was very exciting!

[Ren looks up, pondering loudly.]

It was... about...

[63rd_shockwave]

Yeah, there are all these hidden clauses that they...um...

...About what?

[jianai]

Racing! It was a comic book series about racing.

That counts as a sport, right?

[63rd_shockwave]

Yeah, it does.

...Actually, how old are you? With supernatural people it's always pretty hard to tell.

[jianai]

I am twenty three years old. But, you could say I cheated - I was physically and mentally an adult when I was born, not too different from how I am now.

All I lacked was life experience.