The Deck -- Late Saturday Morning

[icecoldfrost]

If you listened to radio, there were apparently certain... rumors going around that one Emma Grace Frost was 'Difficult.'

Which in no way, shape, or form, had influenced herself to throw on a white bikini and go lay out on the deck today. While diamond. Far be it from Emma to be that spiteful.

She was simply trying to relax enough to change back. Really. Seeing how many rainbows she could cause or freaking out her fellow classmates was simply a side-bonus.

[OOC: Open deck, open post! I'm at woooooooork and should be amused.]

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[intraspective]

Ino eyed Emma dubiously. She had been speaking and it was like Emma wasn't hearing her.

Which was--weird. While Emma was contentious: case in point, insulting poor Zack (who didn't look very insulted, it had to be admitted), Ino had never had her pretend she couldn't hear telepathy in order to make someone speak.

Which left her with... what? The puppy who decided now would be an excellent time to lick her chin was utterly no use, even though it did make Ino smile. Clearly, further telepathy was out of the question--at least if she wanted to avoid having Emma in a thoroughly bad mood at her--and Ino highly doubted that Emma would go for texts or anything like that. Charades?

Or she could speak. Ino grimaced slightly. It would be the easiest route, but she wasn't really in the mood. Even if, looking at the puppy who was making his home on her lap, she knew it'd make Zack happy if she did as well.

"It's Zack," she replied, her voice quiet. "And you can't hear me?"

The important questions. Maybe if she was direct she could go back to being silent sooner.

[icecoldfrost]

"You haven't said anything until just now," Emma replied, returning dubious look for dubious look. "Are you feeling quite well?"

[intraspective]

"I was," she replied, ignoring the comment about how she was feeling. "Telepathy. You can't hear that?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Not a peep, darling," Emma admitted, her hair chiming softly as she shifted position in her chair. "I'm more head-blind than a rock when I'm like this. Literally."

"It's mildly vexing."

[intraspective]

That was weird.

"Odd," Ino answered, toying with Zack's fur absently. Odd and annoying even if she... should probably be talking. If nothing else, the way it made Zack happy was worth it, now. "Are you like that--forever? Traded one power for another?"

[icecoldfrost]

"It switches back-and-forth," she said, shrugging. "I can get back to fleshy, it just takes focus and zen. Sadly, I've never been good with zen."

[intraspective]

"And so you go... tanning," she said, very dubiously. "I suppose for some people that'd induce zen?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I decided I wanted to be Rainbow Brite," Emma deadpanned. "I'm the world's most expensive suncatcher."

[intraspective]

"Ain't my fault," she said, glancing down at Zack. "What am I supposed to think?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I have no idea what you're supposed to think, I'm a mindreader - sometimes - not the thought police," Emma replied. "...no, wait, I am the thought police. Think zen thoughts for me, and maybe I'll somehow pick up on them."

[intraspective]

"Sorry," she said, very dryly. "I'm all out of zen thoughts."

Which made Ino a bit sulky. She'd like some zen thoughts, really.

"You'll just have to... make your own, I guess."

[icecoldfrost]

"Oh really? And what has you all out of zen today?" Please. Emma didn't need to be a telepath to realize that Ino was acting strange. "Not a dog person?"

[intraspective]

Zack whined and she laughed very softly as she petted him until his tail was wagging again.

"He's not the problem," Ino replied. "At least, him being like this ain't one." It was cute. It was a bit of a relief. "Too many things goin' on and none of them simple, you know?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I got a building dropped on me, Ino," Emma said. "You can let things be difficult, or you can make them simple."

[intraspective]

Ino pressed her lips so tightly together that they all but disappeared while she tried to find something to say that didn't make her sound childish.

"You look smashing for someone who has had a building dropped on them," she said, finally, casting a glance through her bangs to double-check that one. "And if you've got tips on how to make my problems simple, I'll take them. I don't got no clue how to do that."

[icecoldfrost]

"Well, what's so complex that it's keeping you from using your Big Girl Words? In one-hundred words or less, please."

[intraspective]

"Saving a world, figuring out where I'm going to live after Fandom, dealing with Zack's issues on top of mine, dealing with fallout from where the island had me, trying not to strangle someone on the island," Cloud, "and dealing with normal every day life as well."

And that was very very neutral because she was not going to rise to Emma's prodding.

[icecoldfrost]

"Well, do you think you want to try higher education, or go right into the field?" Emma asked. "You're always welcome in my New York, especially since I will need a roommate."

Emma wasn't at all debating the pros-and-cons of making Ino her new Head Minion. She actually rather missed Layla's occasional usefulness.

"Zack is a dog, his issues can wait, or you can put puppy prozac in his water. Strangling people is good therapy, and normal life is dull and can be ignored. How's that?"

[intraspective]

"You have a gift," Ino said, smiling slightly. "But how 'bout savin' a world? Got advice for that one?"

She snuggled Zack as he whuffed softly. "And I... I wouldn't even know where to start with... higher education. My world doesn't exactly have it."

But it was something to consider and she sounded more thoughtful than anything else.

[icecoldfrost]

"Studying history is generally considered a good way to save a world from making the same mistakes over and over. Economics. Agriculture, political science, architecture, city planning..." Emma said, listing things off on her fingers.

[sorry, my dad showed up over three hours early and abducted me.]

[intraspective]

Ino stared at her with wide eyes.

"No way can I learn most of that in time to make a difference."

[icecoldfrost]

"So pick one, and go somewhere that time runs differently," Emma shrugged. "I've been here just over a year, but it's only been about eight months in my New York. I'm sure you could get a student visa for somewhere that you can study for a year and be back in a week."

[intraspective]

Ino opened her mouth, stopped, closed it and frowned thoughtfully.

"That'd bring it's own issues," she mused. "I'd have to find a version of that world that--was runnin' that slow. It ain't... my home that I'm trying to save."