capeandcowl | [01]- Arrival [VIDEO]

[The video flickers on and shows a woman with curly brown hair and she is clearly upset and a little bit in shock from her arrival. Such a big change so quickly is a little traumatic for her and she'd like to get to the bottom of it. She's incredibly shy, though so it takes her a while. She fidgets with the sling on her arm and takes a few deep breaths before she finally gathers her thoughts enough to speak her mind.]

Hello. I am...My name is Bennett Halverson and I...I'm from Washington, D.C. Which this clearly is not.

This place is...unfamiliar and whatever that machine says, I'm not a hero. Not a hero. I'm not super, not really.

[She sighs and finds it hard to look at the camera. Even though she just admitted she's not a hero, it should be pretty obvious she's not really a villain either.]

And...I have a job. A very, very important job back home, highly specialized and I can't miss work. There's things I need to accomplish. Things that need to be done. And only I can do them. Well, that's not true, I'm sure there's plenty but I enjoy my work and I like to keep busy with it so I...

[It takes her a lot of courage to say the next line so she visibly stiffens a little. She tries to make herself look a little more intimidating but that's sort of hard for a super nerd with a dead arm.]

It would be...highly advised that someone show me the way to get back home. Immediate action would be preferable.

[Bennett makes a slightly panicked look before she quickly shuts off the video. She's fairly certain she just made an ass of herself and is going to get herself murdered now. Thank you, paranoia!]

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[Dammit, Topher! Stop it! You're making it hard to hate you. Which she's still trying to do, by the way.]

...Alright. But that doesn't mean I trust you. Not really.

[She is extremely unsure about this but it makes sense. And he seems genuine enough but so did Caroline and look how that turned out. But she doesn't want to be alone right now. A one-armed girl would be easy picking out in a big city on her own.]

Yes. That is where I am currently.

...Evil mold? Since when is mold sentient enough to be considered evil?

[He's smiling that smile, because she is so cute with her glasses and oh! is that a chain?]

It's okay. A lot of people don't trust me even though I'm a fairly trust worthy guy.

And as part of the learning to trust me just believe in the evil of mold. Besides even if it's not sentient do you really want to live in a place with mold?

Here's where I am: map. Keep it to yourself though because my boss is the secretive type.

There's no mold here AND I have cable!

[ Get an encryption, you two. Suddenly, even.

Don't say she never did anything for you. ]

Well, no, I don't really want to live with mold considering I'm slightly mysophobic but I've never thought of it as evil before.

[Oh God, is she rambling? She's rambling. And blushing. Stop it! She's supposed to be mad at you!]

I...I ah, I don't feel very comfortable with leaving here. Even with a map...I'd be very worried I'd get lost, its a very big city. And I'm afraid I'd be a fairly easy target because... [She glances down at her arm and bites her lip.]

If you think our meeting is necessary, why don't you come here? Then we could decide upon further action...?

[She's very bad at being angry at him, isn't she? Stupid adorable smile. Making her all fluttery and nervous.]

[Out? Oh, Tierney wouldn't be happy to know that he's going out on his own again...but who's going to tell!?]

Okay! I'll head over to the MAC. Tomorrow.

I, uh, have a meeting today, but tomorrow you'll be my only priority!

[Here, have another bright smile!]

If you have work to do, I really wouldn't want to intrude upon it...

But, um...only priority...?

[She's never really been anyone's first priority before so...Now she's smiling. A little. But she's trying to fight it. It's really, really not working well.]

That's new, to say the least, I mean yes. That's, um.

[She figures she should shut up now. Because she's probably sounding like a moron to him.]

[This is him smiling and waving goodbye as he heads off to do things far less interesting than talking to Bennett!]

[At first, she really has no idea what in the world to do but then she ultimately decides to wave back. Because that's the polite thing to do, right? Yeah. Her wave is incredibly awkward and full of fail. When she realizes she probably looks like a tomato, she quickly turns the video off out of embarrassment.]

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