5th Floor Common Room, Tuesday Late Morning/Early Afternoon

[trigons_child]

Raven didn't have any classes on Tuesdays now, and since 'Dite still hadn't contacted her to speak in person about what had happened, she wasn't going into work, either. Earlier that morning she'd been woken up by strong feelings of love and calm and traced them to their source, though she regretfully had to refuse the offer the stone seemed to be making.

So for now she had to completely distract herself from thoughts of her mother so that she didn't start to inadvertently daydream about her. Said distraction was currently taking place in the form of browsing the web on her laptop and looking for new pictures from the episodes of Rumor Gal currently being filmed. Thank Azar Charlie was still alive!

[Open, of course.]

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Morning!" Hannibal said, remarkably awake for the time it was. "Writing that story we talked about?"

[trigons_child]

"I am not," Raven said, blushing a little because it was impossible for her not to blush within five minutes of Hannibal talking to her. "I am looking for spoilers, however."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

And he hadn't done anything blush worthy! He'd have been pleased to hear that just his presence made her blush.

"Anything good?" he asked, flopping down on a chair.

[trigons_child]

"I have been pleased to find my favorite character seems to have survived the grave injury that was inflicted upon him in the final episode of this past season," Raven said. Or else he was a very active ghost. With a cane.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I guess there's a bigger chance of that happening there rather than here," he said, smirking. "No healers there with their magical powers and even more magical fingers."

[trigons_child]

"I certainly would have healed him with my gifts," Raven said. No, she hadn't envisioned that scenario at all, why do you ask?

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"How's your healing work?" he asked curiously.

[trigons_child]

"I am able to take pain and any injury into my own body," Raven explained, setting aside her laptop. "And then dispel it. Most empaths can feel another's emotions or pain, but I can actually take it away."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"You take it into your own body?" Hannibal asked, raising an eyebrow. "Doesn't that hurt you?"

[trigons_child]

"Momentarily," Raven admitted. Sometimes she really wished she could lie about that. "But it quickly passes, and it is more than worth it to bring relief to another. I do not mind it at all."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Where does the pain go?" Hannibal wondered. "If you take it and it goes away, does it just...evaporate?"

[trigons_child]

"It is as if it never was," Raven said proudly. "It just ceases to be."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Wow. Handy talent to have," Hannibal said, impressed. "Me? I'd just give the other person a bandaid and hope for the best. I shouldn't be a healer."

[life_inshadow]

"Raven!" Tara exclaimed as she wandered into the room. She hadn't been avoiding Raven or anything, she'd just been trying to gather her thoughts so she didn't say anything stupid.

Which looked like avoiding, yes.

Sheepishly, she added, "How are you doing?"

[trigons_child]

"Hello, Tara," Raven said, giving her a soft smile. "I have been...I cannot say I have been entirely well, but I have been feeling better."

[life_inshadow]

"I'm glad," Tara said, concern crossing her face. "Sorry I didn't come find you. I, uh, kinda suck at knowing what to say. But I was thinking about you."

[trigons_child]

"Thank you," Raven said. "The first few days were difficult, but I am trying to learn to accept what has happened. And I apologize for bringing you to harm. I did not know the Justice League would show up as they did and disrupt the ritual...or that my father would appear."

But she was very pleased that Tara was still speaking to her despite having seen just what her father looked like.

[life_inshadow]

Tara shook her head rapidly. "I wasn't really hurt," she said. "And -- and even if I had been, I know you d-didn't know any of that would happen. Nobody did."

[trigons_child]

"I am grateful no one was badly injured," Raven said with a nod. "But...I would rather that my friends had not seen my father. Karla and Professor Skywalker had already encountered him, but if I could have spared the rest of you, I surely would have." And spared herself the shame she felt about her heritage as well.

[life_inshadow]

Tara's smile was slightly bitter. "H-he's actually not that far off from my dad," she said. "Mine just ... happens to be human."

[trigons_child]

"Demons have many forms," Raven said quietly.

She didn't want to dwell on dark thoughts, so she tried to shake off the melancholy. "Did you feel anything strange this morning?" she asked. "A feeling of warmth and peace?"

[life_inshadow]

Tara had to think about it. "A little?" she said tentatively. "I thought it was because, um, there was still good cereal on my floor. You got it too?"

[trigons_child]

Raven was relieved she hadn't just been imagining things, even as real as it had seemed. "I felt it, yes," she said. "And I followed it to its source, a stone in the woods. But it vanished when I looked away."

[life_inshadow]

"What do you think it is?" Tara asked, frowning thoughtfully.

[trigons_child]

"I have no idea where it may have come from," Raven said, "but I did not sense any ill intent from it." Her powers could be fooled, but it wasn't easy, and she didn't think so in this case. "I think it spoke to me as well, about dreams."