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Who: Espio the Chameleon and anyone!
What: The Void thinks he’s a dragon and that he should have wings. He disagrees.
Where: Leylines / Mortis Lake Shore / Shibumenosaki Underground Academy
When: After the tremors have stopped
Content Warnings: None in particular

Questions
Ley Lines

Okay, testing mysterious glowy telepathy thing. Anyone hear me? For all I know I could be talking into the void.

[You have to be near it to hear, right? Though given this is a new thing the world has decided to give them, how it really works is probably a mystery to all of them... everything here has something of a mystery to it. There are so many unanswered questions, so much to be made sense of! And right now, Espio’s main question is regarding unexpected transformations...

Not for any particular reason. Nope. He definitely hasn’t suddenly acquired new appendages out of nowhere for no apparent reason, absolutely not. Not that he’s going to be able to hide them...]

Quick question. I’ll keep it brief. Since coming here, has anyone had something change about them? Like new powers, or old powers coming back... or suddenly sprouting horns or a tail out of nowhere... is that normal here? Should we be expecting that to happen?

Clumsy
Mortis Lake Shore

It’s not a good day. The problem? Unwilling transformations. Again.

He didn’t mind when he suddenly gained a golden-coloured horn upon his forehead. A horn is completely fine, because he’s supposed to have a horn, and it makes logical sense to him that an illogical place like this would pick up on that and let him have it back. He’d like it if it would turn him back into a chameleon, instead of keeping him in this human shape, but getting his horn back was a still a nice surprise.

Wings, on the other hand... chameleons don’t have wings. Waking up with a pair of pink and gold dragon wings painfully and tightly bound by his clothing was very much not such a nice surprise, even when he did tear them free. These things had better be temporary!

...okay, maybe some people would be excited to suddenly have wings. Espio does like flying, so surely it would be nice to fly unaided. Right? Too bad he doesn’t know how to actually use them.

Espio has taken himself to a relatively open area by the lake, and is attempting to occupy himself with figuring out how wings work. Most of it is simply exercise - furling and unfurling them, stretching and flapping, adjusting their position, attempting to at least get the damn things under control enough that he doesn’t accidentally smack someone in the face or knock everything over like he’s been doing all day. It’s a pain in the ass.

He can’t quite resist trying to at least get off the ground, however... and he does succeed! It’s just that he only gets a few feet up before swiftly crashing back down into an undignified heap with a loud shout and a lot of swearing. This is not going to work.

Curious
Shibumenosaki Underground Academy
Nurse’s Office -> Gym

The plan was to visit the gym. Sudden wings were no excuse for Espio to skip out on his usual daily fitness regime! He makes a brief stop on the way, however, should anyone be curious enough to follow him. In the vague hope that he might find something to treat the minor scrapes and cuts from his earlier experiments, he slips into the nurse’s office, and while he doesn’t find what he’s looking for he does take notice of the anatomical model and the two empty stands beside it.

“Person... machine... dragon,” he reads out loud. He never took particular notice of these before, but given that he is currently sporting a pair of distinctly draconic wings, he can’t help but be curious. Is ‘dragon’ something this place considers similar to people? “Weird.”

And with that - after hearing anyone else’s input on the matter, should they have followed him - he heads off to take his stress out on a punching bag, where he’s more than happy to talk or even offer a little tuition to someone. He’s not a gym trainer, no, but he is a martial arts instructor, so it might be worth asking!

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[If a mind could grunt, this one grunted.]

You are definitely talking into the void, but I can hear you. I think we have to be near these mists to use it.

Yes. My powers haven't come back, but I seem to have some other ones the more that people pray at my shrine.

People had access to their powers once, in a dream.

Though the courts are decorated with Seijoh's school colors, the gym's become a sort of haven for Shouyou since the day he arrived. It's a little slice of his home in a world that's so foreign to him, and it helps that he can lose himself in the familiar sounds of the volleyball court there, too.

So, naturally, Shouyou pays attention when someone else enters the space, especially one he hasn't had a chance to talk to yet. He rolls the volleyball between his hands, keeping an eye on Espio for a while.

"Are you okay?" He pipes up, once Espio finally takes a break from the punching bag. "You look kinda... " He trails off, gesturing at at the various scrapes and bruises the other's picked up during his flight experiments.

Coming in loud and clear on this end! Take care not to say anything too nasty - from what I gather, people might be listening whether you want them to or not.

[ whether he means gossip or profanity is up to Espio's interpretation, but it's probably both. it's taking a bit of practice to have to mind his own thoughts, but he thinks he has a decent grasp on it so far. ]

Nothing like that for me, besides the whole "talking into each other's heads" thing. That's new. [ but clearly not just affecting him, which is reassuring. ] Asking from experience?

[ sprouting horns and a tail sounds pretty specific... ]

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