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Brisa nodded, grinning. "Yeah, s'fuckin' cold out here, ain't it." She turned to head off, looking back over her shoulder at her friend – Astrid, her friend – as she came along too. "I'm sorry too," she said, softly. "But if it ain't okay now, it's gonna be okay real soon." She really did...

"I don't plan on givin' up on you," said Brisa, her spoken words matching the Radiance-soaked feelings passing along her whiplash. "Of course I wanna see you at yer best. I've never believed that detonin' with light is the most y'can do. You're far more remarkable than that." Brisa closed the...

Whiplash was mostly unilateral. It conveyed Brisa's feelings, Brisa's thoughts, to her target. But there was always a little backwash in there too... An insight into the heart she was opening herself to. And right now that strange intuition told her that Astrid was, more than anything, scared...

Brisa had been ready to try, desperately, to speak on Astrid's pain, on her strength, on her belonging. Then, that question. Other thoughts fell, with the snow, into blankness. ...So, Astrid had heard her. And perhaps having heard it had been a reason, in part, for all this. Or at least it had...

Brisa swallowed hard. So this was about the dying. One way or another. "This is no way t'spend yer days, temporary circumstance or not," she said, feeling like she was treading on ice, both figurative and actual. "We don't know how much time we got left, and we oughtn’t to waste it. And...

Brisa sucked cold air through her teeth. She knew Astrid had become reclusive to the team in general, but this...? "Yer havin' memory problems?" she asked, the anger vanished from her voice. "Or like . . . hallucinations? What kinda shit d'you mean?" Astrid didn't seem all there as she stared...

Brisa followed Astrid's gaze. The training was working, evidently. "Well you're sure makin' a success of yer self-detonin' stratagem," she drawled. "What I don't understand is why y'got such a need to escape. Before th'fight with Joule, I thought things were pretty damn good. Was lookin'...

"I'm as far out as it takes t'find you," replied Brisa. She took a steadying breath. She didn't have much idea what was even going through Astrid's mind right now. Not after this long. She didn't know what the ninetales needed. What she wanted. What she herself wanted, for that matter. "I...

The crackling fizz and surging light of Radiance was Brisa's next trail to follow. Flashes like that could only be from a potent user of Radiance, and who would be training alone out here but Astrid? Brisa passed by one wound in the earth and then another, wincing as she imagined the kind of...

"Ms. Ninetales Cucumber? I'm afraid she's already been discharged. Against medical advice, but we're used to that from her." "Yeah. Same here. Thank ye kindly, ma'am. Any idea where she went?" "Well, not as such, but she only left moments ago. I'm sure if you contacted her on her badge, she...

Luz cracked her knuckles over and over. Time to go face Maple, she supposed, and to ask her favour in using the tree of life for the benefit of Dark Matter's faction. She could almost hear herself saying No problem, Maple's a reasonable gal! We'll just explain our reasonin', an' she'll see...

Luz got the call to the meeting while touring her newest friend, Electrike Koamaru of Canalave, around Destiny Village. They arrived later than she'd hoped to. At first, she peered over the heads of those team members shorter than her (most of them) to search the wraithlike presences beside...

"Yeah," said Luz. "Let's be off. I have the feelin' I oughta reconvene with Brisa 'n' prepare for another Team Spectrum scuffle. You ready for our next showdown, partner?" She patted Icetales' shoulder as they walked together through the portal, home. <><><><><>

Luz shrugged and cracked her knuckles. "Work hard afore you play hard. Fair enough! Let's get gone. But first..." She tousled Icetale's head before sauntering over to Maple and going in for a bear hug. "It'll be alright, partner! We'll see to it together!"

Oh, bless. What a sweetheart. Luz considered propositioning Icetales just to see the poor fella squirm, but no, she had more important things to say to Maple. "Ma'am, I sincerely hope that we can help restore yer partner to his good self, and that the two of ya can resume yer world-savin'...

Luz said nothing, but nudged Icetales in the side and raised her eyebrows conspiriatorially.

"Fascinatin'!" breathed Luz. "Is it a phenomemon totally unique to the pair of ya? Y'ever find Radiance anywhere besides you 'n' yours?"

Luz cocked her head. "Howdy, Blade," she said. "We ain't met yet, but I'm Luz. One of yer fella's spawn. Not sure exactly how to take yer meanin', but I'm guessin' ya don't have it on faith that Team Spectrum are genuinely well-intentioned. That's fine an' all, but the way things've been goin'...

It had been quite the flight from the Guild. Luz let Icetales approach Maple first. She wasn't sure another shade was the best person to help first thing. Maybe once she'd calmed down. Instead, Luz put herself in front of Joule. Or Millijoule, as she was starting to think of him. "Howdy...