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[kuromu_dokuro]

Who: Chrome
When: T-10 seconds to emotional whiplash
What: Worlds crumble and she ends up...not home. Again.

It happened between one breath and the next. She'd been in the eternal Autumn of her old new-world performing a leap during spear practise, and come down on concrete hard enough to make her stumble and bash her knee. That wasn't what had her sit on the ground and cry, however. She wept because reaching for healing magic failed but her power boiled up at her touch. Her power took the place of the Elo to keep her alive, her power allowed her to cover her scars, her power. Illusion at her fingertips and joy in her heart...yet Mukuro was still not here. Her mind was still bleeding out for him, and that mitigated her joy and made her sorrow.

So she wept, both in joy and in sorrow, while playing illusions around herself on the ground.

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[scorned_progeny]

"..are...you alright?" The voice was hesitant yet oddly lyrical, the shush of a sheet held, toga style, scraped along the concrete just behind the words. "And do you know where I am? I'm sorry..I..could be hallucinating."

[kuromu_dokuro]

"I'm...no worse off than I was twenty minutes ago." she said, looking up, "I don't know where we are though, sorry. Ah...also, sorry." she dropped the little illusions that were dancing around this way and that around her. "My name is Chrome."

[scorned_progeny]

Her eyes traced the edges of the illusions as they slipped away but the gaze she turned back on Chrome was steady, if tired, "Hello Chrome, I'm...Vanya." This wasn't the mansion or her medical bed, and it wasn't the gravestone she'd stumbled to.

All in all it was...an improvement? Of sorts. "You haven't seen a crazy bunch of heroes running around looking for an escapee? I imagine my brother at least would panic a bit since I'm suddenly ambulatory. Failing that...would you like company?"

[kuromu_dokuro]

"Not recently." Chrome said, patting the sidewalk next to herself, "Go ahead and pull up some concrete. I'd make a pillow, but...oh, being in a city is so nice. I'm not really on the good side of most heroes myself, honestly. I'm kind of mafia, an assassin, too. Well. An assassin very much, kind of mafia."

[scorned_progeny]

"I was insane," she admitted wryly, settling with a soft hum of wires beside the girl, "but I was told everything would be alright." And it was. It made sense if you knew her family.

"Well, I'm recently out of a hospital bed a mafia assassin. Nice, ever play the game 'what would you do if the world ended?" Because it seemed apropos in this empty city?

[kuromu_dokuro]

"That's okay. Some of my best friends were insane for pretty much their whole lives." then she laughed a little bit, "Would you believe this is the second post-apocalyptic seeming city I've been in? The other one had more ruins and people flying around on hard flames, though. ...My answer there was 'spend a lot of time dying when not trying to kill people'. I like that I'm not dying. You?"

[scorned_progeny]

"Then this is better company than expected," she chuckled, resting arms covered in white lacquer on her knees. "And not dying is a plus. My answer was usually simpler, but in this instance I might say my goal is to salvage some cotton batting. And then make sure there aren't any monsters. Those tend to be a pain."

[kuromu_dokuro]

"Cotton batting? For what?" she asked, curiously, "Monsters aren't that much of a problem, though. Not for me, anyway. If you want to stick together for now we can do that." Just to be certain she called (and dismissed) her spear. Yes. She'd be fine.

[scorned_progeny]

"...my strings are cold," she admitted a touch sheepishly. "Nothing else is really a problem but my strings just...it's odd. I think I can wrap them." Maybe? She hadn't really had time to think about that before!

"No, monsters aren't a problem, really, except I don't want to take out any buildings. It's nice to be near someone who doesn't want to shake me silly though. So please, yes, if you don't mind."

[kuromu_dokuro]

"Oh." she smiled, "How about a coat?" setting illusion to word, she caused a warm coat to surround the older woman. "It's illusion, but it should work for now."

[scorned_progeny]

"...it gets caught..." she laughed. "Even the toga pinches a bit. I've been in a hospital gown mostly, and on machines, so it wasn't anything to worry about then, but thank you. We should probably still move, see what we can."

[kuromu_dokuro]

"Hmmm." she let the coat illusion go, and instead tapped her lower lip while standing up, "Well, the next easiest thing..." a sphere of mist rose around the two of them, warmth rising with it until it was comfortable for a girl in a mini-skirt. The shifting purple was never quite where one or the other was looking, being there mostly to give Vanya an excuse for the warmth.

[scorned_progeny]

She rose as well in a hum of music and smiled at the mist, "you're very kind," she admitted. "Thank you. I'm used to powers, you don't have to waste visuals on me. My brother always worked extra to make what he saw or did visible." And it made Klaus something of a powerhouse, but nowhere near sane.

"Preferred direction?"

[erfingi]

After speaking to Khemrys, Loki had left the hospital to see if anyone else had managed to make it.

He hoped to find a few of the people that he considered friends. He hadn't had friends before Penrose, but now he had them, he didn't want to return to not having them.

So here he is looking around when he spots, "Chrome?"

He really hopes she's the same Chrome.

[kuromu_dokuro]

Her head snapped up and before she even knew what she was doing she had her arms wrapped around his waist and her forehead on his chest, "Loki-san! You're here too!" the hug lasted endless seconds before she realised what she'd done and backed off with a mumbled apology and bowing.

[erfingi]

A hug? Frigga was the only one that had ever hugged him before. The last person he would have expected it from was Chrome, with her No Touch policy.

He recovered after a few moments. "Yes, I am here, where ever here is," he said. "Are you alright?" he recalled something about her health and the magic of Penrose sustaining her. With his Elo missing and Khemrys' shattered, he suspected that the magic of Penrose no longer applied. He hadn't even tried accessing all of his powers yet.

[kuromu_dokuro]

"Oh yes." she said, closing her eye and creating an illusion of twisting vines that spread from under her feet to carpet the street and climb the buildings; with large flowers that gave off an intoxicating scent. "I have my illusions." it was possibly the second stupidly obvious thing she'd said in the minute from seeing her friend, but..."I have my illusions. I am alive by my power, and I have my illusions."

[erfingi]

Watching the vines come up was amazing. There was no Penrosian magic that could do similar. Her illusions were so realistic, too, right down to scent, which he couldn't get through Penrosian magic.

He focused and felt his clothing change with a golden-green flicker of magic. His Asgardian armor replaced his prior clothing. "My magic is working as expected again," he said. There was a hint of some emotion there that was beyond just the statement of fact, relief, maybe?

[kuromu_dokuro]

"Ohhhh." she took an extra step back to admire his armour, the greens and golds (in her opinion) suiting him perfectly. The horns on his helm were...a little silly, but she figured that in her position as mostly-illusion-talking-to-god it wasn't her place to comment.

"All of it, I hope?" was all she said after the first impressed sound. It would be good for him to have his powers back.

no excuse for being this late... sorry

[erfingi]

"It feels like it," he said after a moment of thought. He took off his helmet and vanished it with a wave of his hands, no need for the full formal armor among friends. Yes, waving his hands managed to cause objects to disappear and reappear. As an after thought he summoned a book that he knew was stashed in his magic-non-existant-sleeve-pockets (aka hammerspace). Another wave vanished the book again. Yes, his powers were back, maybe a little dulled, but not to an excessive extent.

No worries I'm the one who made Beth wait two years...

[kuromu_dokuro]

"Good." she looked up at him again and added, "I'm sad that I'm still not home...but I'm very glad that I have not lost my friend and teacher." Chrome looked around for a few moments, at the silence, and said softly, "This place is very disconcerting...it seems as big as my home city, but so very empty."

Well, I'll try not to be that bad

[erfingi]

"I had hoped that the hospital was the only abandoned facility," he said. Even though the hospital was well stocked and in good condition. "I have not had long to look around."

However, no one walked about and there were no one peaking from behind curtains. No feeling of eyes on him.

[kuromu_dokuro]

"I've...had just long enough to kill a dinosaur and get drafted into being the police." she said wryly, "Then I sat back down to ponder life...and then you showed up!" she wasn't sure what to do about being the police.

[erfingi]

"A dinosaur?" he asked. He was more intrigued by that then little Chrome being the local law enforcement. Maybe the fact he showed up in the hospital indicated this world wanted him to do something for the hospital. Or maybe he only showed up there because he could be useful to Khemrys in setting up a clinic for short term use.

Perhaps, he would be the "handy-man."

"Quite a beast to slay," he said.

[kuromu_dokuro]

"I am very proud of myself." she said, grinning and rocking back and forth on her feet. "I'm trying to get an idea of where I want to live, now. How long have you been here? What have you been doing?"