riverviewlogs | Teenagers with Issues.

Lauren had picked up a couple rocks, doing her best to hold them up on the back of some shields she made. Maneuvering them slowly through a set of obstacles she set up on the desk. She had a lot more control if she's moving only a handful of shields.

It still isn't easy, she's got to keep her eyes on the prize to do things so carefully. Bigger is in some way easier. She isn't trying to move her little discs, and never move them in more than one direction.

Maybe now would be a bad time to pester her, or the best time.

Lauren probably should be wearing some sort of helmet, or padding, anything. She couldn't wear anything to protect her hands because it usually limited her range of movement. Still, maybe she should be wearing something. Of course that wasn't how it worked in the Underground. You just are very motivated not to get hit by whatever it is.

She flexed her fingers, a few people offered to throw things at her until she figured out a way to practice that didn't impose on the time and energies of others, "Okay... I'm ready."

All Might was more than happy to stop by and help — after all, he's a teacher, is he not? That means he needs to be focused on helping the youth who are struggling with their powers. He remembers it like yesterday, how unstable and difficult One for All had been when he was in school... How difficult it was to master. And the same could be said for his dear student Midoriya, enough that he regrets some of the choices he's made — some choices that maybe shouldn't have been made toward him, either, when he was young.

But now he can at least do this much; he can lower his power levels, help her master her skills.

"Very well, young Lauren...! Though, should you be so exposed? Maybe some padding, or a helmet..."

See, he can predict your narration!

Or, you know. He doesn't want to kill a pseudo-student.

Lauren shrugged at the question, "When people are shooting at me I don't get to ask them to stop so I can get some armor." He was... well, impressive really. Nobody in the Underground was quite his size. Even the larger guys were. Not that size mattered much, it was what you could do.

"If you want to be sure, you can throw them next to me and I can still stop them them." Provided she could see them moving she can throw up a shield. She was one of the stronger mutants in the Underground, but she did have limits. Might be best to find them out before they hit her in the head.

"True enough...!"

He can't argue that; oftentimes, you won't have the luxury of having protective gear. Though he recommends it, of course, to whatever hero would like to safeguard themselves. Luckily his aim is pretty darn good, so he's a bit more okay with throwing it near her instead of at her. So, should he use 5% power...? 5% should be okay. Maybe a little under. He gives a firm nod.

"Very well. Prepare yourself, young lady!"

He cocks an arm back, aims, and fires — just enough that it's speeding akin to a pro baseball player. It should do well enough for warm-up practice!!

Lauren was attempting to take advantage to the peace of the city. Sure there were giant bugs and weird robots and stuff to that kind, but nobody wanted to hunt her down for just living on this moon. That's something?

Still, the peace in the city wasn't quite finding its way into Lauren's heart. She still felt people staring while she sat in coffee shops, and changed her routes in parks fearing someone was following her. She did her best to drive off the bits of paranoia, even being on the guard didn't seem to quiet her.

She looked uneasy, anywhere she went. It actually made her stand out a bit more because of how she kept checking to see if she was being watched.

Well, a cave of beautiful colored crystals was exactly the sort of place Lola would spend a great deal of time. There were a lot of places to take pictures of herself, and a lot of different colors to see and memorize, add to her collection of colors her hair (and bike) could be. She was very nice and happily go up to anyone else alone and ask for them to take a picture with her, or to take a picture of them for their own social media/personal collection.

(who doesn't share pictures though? That's weird.)

Lola doesn't have a great deal of nightmares, she's pretty good at keeping positive. She buries her fears, her anxieties deep, taking care of herself by taking care of others. Tonight, however, those anxieties have clawed their way into her dreams and twisting what is normally one of her favorite places into something she doesn't like.

In spite of her grades, the halls of Degrassi Community School are one of her favorite places. This school, this version of it is twisted... the colors are muted, being in these halls just make your skin crawl and you can't explain why. Lola's hiding in an empty classroom. Nothing about how uneasy this dreamscape makes Lola feels outshines one detail.

She's alone.

Lola being alone, quiet, and hiding was just completely unnatural. Keith stood in the doorway for a moment, reeling a bit from how uneasy this whole place made him feel. It was like whatever had helped him pick up on the Blue Lion's energy and gave him those weird feelings about things happening was working on overdrive right now. He didn't like it.

He took a quiet step in.

"Hey... you alright?"

"Oh, yeah! I think," Lola was good at a lot of things, cooking, cleaning, budgeting money, pairing the right top with the right jewelry. Lying? No, Lola's terrible at it, even when the answer isn't just painted across the dreamscape around them. Her face said as much. "I have this dream a lot."

Lola that's not helping. "Except not with an audience."

"Audiences in dreams are pretty rare," Keith said. "Mind if I join you?"

"Um, sure," She's not sure what's real, this is a dream. She knows that, but is he a dream? The Quarantine is often full of weird and impossible. Lola's experienced memories in dreams before. "I'd prefer not to be alone here. It's so creepy."

And she's usually alone here.

"It's definitely creepy..." He couldn't disagree there. Keith settled into one of the desks next to her. "Are you like... stuck in this room?" He didn't really fully understand the dream imagery that might be going on here, but he was going to ask questions until he got close enough to figure out.

"Not exactly," this room wasn't special. "But the whole school feels like this. Like it's... missing something important. But you can't name what it is."

It wasn't the people, she's been in the school after everyone went home. It was more than that, deeper than that. Just a level of wrong that just permeated every surface. "I picked this room cause it doesn't mean anything to me."

"Yeah... it's definitely freaking me out..."

He considered the options for a moment.

"Can you leave the school? Or are you stuck here for the dream?"

"Out there is worse."

It's a whole empty city, an empty school she could rationalize. Make sense of. This dream went pretty far, but it didn't get better.

Keith looked alarmed for a second. "Really?"

That was even creepier.

"So... you're just... alone..." Well, they were alone, but it was technically her dream. "Why do you think it's like that?"

"It's an empty city? Just... nothing. Isn't that just the creepiest place possible?"

Endless expanse of lonely.

"I dunno, I mean this is a nightmare. Nightmares are suppose to mess you up. Be everything you never want right?" She's had this nightmare, well... versions of it, since she was a kid. Different places, same feeling. "I've had this nightmare about the Quarantine before. Just a fun little bit of me."

"Well... you're not alone in it this time," Keith offered. "I'm here, too." His tone got a little wry at his next comment. "That's better than alone, right? I'd like to think so."

Lola smiled and just leaned against Keith as a response. She wasn't sure what to say, plus it meant she could hide how worried she was. Cause, it was nice. Him being here.

And it'll suck when he's gone.

Keith smiled a little in return and reached his hand across to take hers. If she just wanted to stay here and lean on him like this, then okay. He'd do that. This was her dream, after all. He'd follow her lead. He gave her hand a light squeeze.

Lola was slowly improving with her magic boots that definitely felt like they belonged to her... but she still wasn't a master at them, she'd been looking for help and set up playdates to see if people way smarter than her and more experienced with weird things to help her.

A park gave a lot of room to work and with someone else there she could be a little more reckless with them and not worry about having to get herself to the hospital. Which is good, she dressed for jumping really high (comfortable jeans, turtleneck, cute jacket, durable lucky sports bra). Waiting for a friend to come help her.

Link had made his way to the park at Lola's request. She had mentioned magic boots to him at that strange party where they had bumped into each other, and he was quite curious about them. Boots that made you jump really high would be excellent for paragliding around town.

He looked around the park and found her without much trouble. He waved and ran over to her. "Hi! Got your boots?"

Lola smiled and stood up, "It'd be kinda dumb of me to forget them." She needed help, and Link was a smart cookie, he could totally help. She hoped. Maybe.

She slipped her backpack off and pulled out a pair of white leather boots. Mid-shin, covered in a decoration of silver filigree and pink gemstones. The heel and sole were reinforced with metal, and a small ventilated mesh ran portion that thanks to the heel didn't touch the floor. She offered one for him to look at, "It kinda, um, releases a blast from there and just... makes jumping easier."

Because jumping is always easier when you stand on an explosion, right?

Link took the boot and inspected it closely. He wasn't an expert on magic, nor was he an expert on fashion. If anything, he thought it looked pretty impressive.

"So you just put these on and try to jump?" She had mentioned before that she couldn't get them to work as she wanted all the time. Link wasn't sure how he could help, but at the very least he could be a spotter and help if anything went wrong. "Well, let's see what you've got." He hands the boot back.

Lola was pretty sure they'd look better when she wore her hair pink more than she wore it blue. Pink and white was definitely a thing she did.

"Sorta, I have to sorta want to?" Lola stopped, considered, no, that wasn't right. Explaining things was so hard, language was clearly a mistake, "I have to will it to happen. Like, focus, make it work. It might be easier to just show you."

Link took a step back and put his hands on his belt, waiting for Lola to show him what she could do with the boots. "He gave her a nod, letting her know he was ready whenever she was.

Lola was incredibly good at quickly changing from her regular cute boots into her also cute jumping boots. It helped her normal boots were zip up. Once she stood up and considered she took a hop forward... and as her feet came down there was a large plume of blue energy under her feet that launched her forward. It was pretty impressive. She made a good forward push of about eight feet and landed...

in a tumble. But without injuring herself! So she had learned something. "I was going for shorter. And more control... and landing on my feet." Magic boots were a more exacting science than she was capable at.

The release of energy caught Link completely off guard and he hopped back out of surprise. He watched her shoot up and forward and tumble as she landed. He ran over, concerned at first, but when she spoke and proved to him that she was unharmed, it changed to excitement.

"That was amazing!" Sure, the jump didn't turn out exactly how she wanted, but the fact that it worked was certainly something.

Link facepalmed. An idea popped into his head just now that should have come up far earlier. "I can't believe I didn't think of this before," he said, pulling out his paraglider. ~~Just don't ask where he pulls it out from. Think of his pouches as bags of holding.~~

"Maybe you can use this so you don't have such rough landings."

Lola's very used to weird, her life has been here for a year after all. But even she has to stop and consider how that works. And she just jumped using magic boots. It's clear from her looking at him, his outfit, and his paraglider she's trying to work this out.

Fortunately it doesn't keep her busy very long, cause their first talk was about magic clothes that made swimsuits less sexy. She's going to assume his clothes do things. "Neat, this should help..."

Now the question is... how to jump without the paraglider getting in the way of her ascent. She's studying it and finally holds the thing behind her, flat, and goes for a big jump upwards. Once she was at the top she holds the thing up over her and let's it carry her down like she's Mary frickin' Poppins. Lola's smiling so wide at the view she's got. "This is amazing!"

Link steps back as Lola figures out how to handle the paraglider and watches her rocket up into the air a second time. He's a little concerned at first, as using such a thing for the first time was a little jarring for him, but Lola takes to it like a pro.

There's a huge grin on Link's face as he looks up and waves at her. "I'm glad you like it," he shouts.

If the wind was strong enough, it could blow her a direction she might not want to go, but Link wouldn't lose sight of her. He'd give chase if he had to.

The glider was definitely new, she wasn't really controlling it so much as maintaining it. She could keep it level, but she wasn't doing much to maneuver or fight the air. She didn't know how to turn and she didn't want to drop it or break it or anything.

"Right, so... how exactly does the whole landing thing work?" This is fun but she's not really used to being this high off the ground. Because she's short.

Link keeps his attention on Lola hanging in the air. "Well, you're gliding not flying, so you'll eventually land." She could close it and free-fall, opening it back up right before landing like he did, but he wasn't sure she'd be able to handle something like that.

Just in case, Link pulls out his Sheikah Slate and selects the stasis rune. If she loses her grip he can catch her with that before she hits the ground. Again, something he should have pulled out before Lola's first jump.

The wind wasn't too strong, so Lola should be more or less just be gently falling straight down, or maybe very slowly moving in the direction of the breeze.

Lola's trying to figure out how to make this move work. She knows the best way to land from trial, error, and cheerleading. But they don't work while trying not to lose the glider. And she's not sure how important it is. And without her weight to offset it, it'd just glide off a lot further than with her.

On the other hand her arms are a little tired and maybe she should just drop. Which is taking all the fun out of wind in her hair (what little there is) and the view. She thinks a moment, internally shrugs, and closes up the glider.

She uses her boots to adjust how she's facing, ready to land and roll to dispel her momentum. Unless Link catches her, which would be cool, and unexpected.

Link was not expecting Lola to close the glider, and from where she was in the air it was hard for him to tell if she did it intentionally or by mistake. Not wanting her to get hurt when she landed, Link quickly aimed his Sheikah Slate at her with the stasis rune ready and activated it when she was a couple of meters above the ground. It stopped her in mid air, making her glow yellow. After a couple of seconds, the stasis wore off and she started to fall again, though her momentum when hitting the ground would now be lessened that if she had hit it from where she initially closed the glider.

"Are you ok?" He had never used stasis on a person, but it stopped monsters pretty well.

Lola wasn't expecting to stop. Well, not yet, she knew she'd stop eventually. On the ground. This... not the ground. It was all sparkly and weird. She's a little too stunned by it all to figure out how it works. And it takes her a few extra moments to remember her initial plan. She kicks off at an angle when she hits the ground and lands with a small roll. Nothing too coordinated but it works.

"That was you right, I have enough weird powers as it is." The fact that she had any powers was weird when it started, but that was months ago. "And if it was you, how did you do that? Was that a home thing or is that a here thing? And did it have to be yellow, yellow so isn't me."

"Yeah, it was me. I used the stasis rune on the Sheikah Slate to stop you so you wouldn't hit the ground so hard." He sounded a little confused. He had been trying to help, but did he just make things harder for her? It probably would have been a better move to have told her about it before using it...

"It's a part of the Slate I got back in Hyrule. I don't know why it makes things yellow. Sorry, I should have mentioned it before we started.

"So... it's an app, from your tablet?" Lola sounded a lot confused because she tried to put the words he used into a context she could understand, and this is where she ended up.

"And it makes things yellow and stops them?"

Although Link wasn't familiar with the words she used to try to understand it, that was really the best description for the runes on the Slate.

"Uh, yeah. You can also store up energy in whatever is in stasis. I could show you."

He looks around for something to demonstrate with, but since they were in a park, there wasn't a whole lot to choose from. There was a bench not too far away, and no one was using it...

He walks over to the bench and looks around one more time. There don't seem to be any people nearby, so Link aims his slate and places the bench under stasis. It glows yellow and Link pulls out Daruk's Boulder Breaker and wails on it. The bench starts to flash, and once time is up it shoots off into the distance like a rocket.

"Don't worry. I wasn't going to do that to you."

Lola watches, her face going from idly curious to some form of horrified as this progresses. See, the giant swordhammer thing is a problem. Even Lola can look at that, and at Link, and be certain that's not right. The glider she was a little preoccupied to really make a fuss with that one. But then he goes and launches a bench into orbit.

"Do you normally just go around knocking public benches into the sky, that could hurt someone!" Look, who goes around just breaking things!?

"Uh...No..." She had a very good point. Link had sent many a large boulder or barrel into orbit in Hyrule, but then the population density there was nothing compared to Riverview. He felt very foolish, having missed that rather large point before he had acted. He rubbed the back of his head as he reluctantly looked back in the direction he had sent the bench flying into the air. By now it was beyond their sight, but he had a very strong feeling that the result wasn't a good one. "I'll make sure not to do that within the walls anymore."

"Good." She was smug in her being right, but it still left a question in her mind. How does someone just... not think about the trouble that sorta power could cause? What sorta world ends up with that sort of thing.

"Now, how the heck do you have a hammer-sword... whatever? That does not fit in a pocket." She thinks, "Or is it like your weird not at all cute swimming armor and magic?"

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