* Daphne walks further into the room, and sits on one of the sofa's arms. She 
gestures to the other. "Ahve a seat?"
* Miya fidgets, looks like she's about to take off her shoes, then nods and goes 
to have a seat. "Okay."
<Daphne> You can take of yeh shoes if ye want. I don' mind.
<Miya> Well, it- it's custom or not.  I mean... I guess it doesn't matter.  
Never mind.
* Miya looks rather embarrassed by now.
<Miya> He- he really is a deputy.  Kind of.  That's why he has a badge, you 
know.
<Daphne> Oh, I can believe it. It's jus' not a very good introduction, really.
<Daphne> And really, he isn't here *as* a deputy, is he?
<Miya> Well... no, not really.
* Miya looks up. She blinks. "Are your hands hurt?"
* Daphne raises her eyebrows. "Eh? Oh, no. Not yet. I wear the bandages to keep 
them from getting that way when I practice." She nods to the chain-wrapped 
punching bags. "Usually it works, too."
* Miya looks at the punching bags. She hops to her feet and taps at them 
curiously. "Oh. That makes sense."
<Daphne> You fight, too. But I don' think you practiced like that, eh?
* Miya shakes her head. "No. No, usually... other people, or dummies, or boards 
sometimes... thinks like that. No punching bags."
<Miya> Especially not ones with metal on them.
* Daphne nods. "Figured. So, who're you fighting?"
* Miya turns, looking to Daphne. "Nobody." She pauses. "Right now, anyway."
<Daphne> Ah. So you're lookin' fer someone to fight?
* Miya smiles faintly, and her voice loses some of its characteristic mousiness. 
"If I wanted to fight you, I would've started it already."
* Daphne grins wide. "Aye, y'woulda. An' ye wouldae already lost. No offense."
<Daphne> But that's not what I meant, anyway. You're not here to beat me up, or 
else you would've mobbed me at the door. Your friend was asking questions, so I 
assume you're lookin' for someone else and you think I know them, or somethin'.
* Miya considers. "Well, I dunno if I would've already lost... huh? Oh."
<Miya> Yeah, we are looking for somebody.  And you were about as good a place to 
start as any, really.  I guess.  I mean... okay.
* Miya walks closer to Daphne, looking up at her. "My eyes are funny, right?"
* Daphne takes a look at Miya's eyes. "Yup. Y'got white pupils. Those contacts?"
* Miya nods. She turns her head and reaches up, removing the one in her right 
eye. Then she looks back up at Daphne.
<Daphne> ...not quite the way I thought, but okay. Lemme guess, you have super-
powers?
* Miya giggles, a little nervously. She goes about putting the contact back in 
her eye, again looking away from Daphne. "Yeah. I can show them to you, if you 
want. They don't blow anything up and stuff."
<Miya> I- I'm a mutant.  So, you know.
<Daphne> Nah, don't need to. Unless ye want to, of course.
* Miya shrugs. She vanishes in that white flash, reappears behind Daphne, and 
taps her on the shoulder.
<Miya> (Daphne's sitting, too, so she'd be perched on the back of the sofa. ^^)
* Daphne seems surprised, but not startled. She looks up at Miya with a grin. 
"Nice. Does this mean ye' cannae crumple metal with your mind, tho?"
* Miya makes a face. "Nope. I can run across ropes and ice, though."
<Miya> But that's what we were kinda... um, here about.
<Daphne> Y'mean without bustin' yer ass on it? ...ah. Yeah, that was my second 
guess.
* Miya vanishes again, reppearing next to Daphne on the sofa. She adjusts 
herself so she's sitting.
<Miya> Yeah, without doing that.  Or falling.  Though if I fell, I guess I could 
just teleport up and grab the rope.
* Daphne grins. "Y'don't think it's me, do ye?"
<Miya> Well, you were a maybe possibility.  Daegal seemed to think it was you.  
I think he likes you, 'cause you beat up bad guys, like him.
* Daphne smirks. "Well, at least he wasn't here for me good looks." She mutters 
something about men that is no doubt derogatory in nature.
* Miya giggles. "I guess it's... uh, better than being ugly. ... Right?"
* Daphne chuckles. "Maybe, maybe. Although if I were ugly, people wouldn't come 
lookin' for me so much."
<Daphne> But, but, but. I'm not the one behind the stuff at the school. I have 
no natural superpowers. I have extraordinary abilities that I learned or taught 
myself, but that's not the same.
<Miya> No, but then they'd sell you face cream or... something.
* Miya considers, then nods. "Yeah. I understand. I'm kinda the same, I mean... 
fighting and stuff, that's... not a power."
<Daphne> Well, it's a power. Just not a 'super power'.
* Miya thinks.
<Miya> If- if you didn't do it, do you have any idea who did?
<Daphne> I cannae fly, or lift buses, or teleport... which would be pretty cool, 
actually. 
* Daphne frowns. "No, I don't. But I did, and that's really botherin' me."
* Miya blinks. "What?"
* Daphne frowns, puts on a look of concentration, and begins speaking, 
illustrating her words with aimless, frustrated gestures. "I'd been lookin' fer 
a week or two, and I stumbled on something, and I had it. I knew who it was. It 
was right there in front of me. *They* were right there in front of me."
<Daphne> And then all of a sudden, I'm in the nurse's office lyin' on a cot, and 
I have no idea how I got there. And I can't remember who it was, or where it was 
I found them.
* Miya blinks. "They? Wait, first you said it, then you said they."
<Miya> There's more than one person?
<Daphne> Eh? No, no... well, fuck, I wouldn't know either way! 
* Daphne sighs. "'They' can refer to someone of indeterminate gender, y'knoo."
<Miya> Oh.
* Miya looks mildly embarrassed. "I didn't know that. All the books say 'he or 
she'."
<Daphne> Usually someone just says 'he', but it seems kinda lazy to me, or 
somethin'. Anyway... it *could* be more than one person. And I'm hopin' to 
figure it out again. Preferably without gettin meself brainwashed this time.
* Miya nods again. "So... that's... scary, actually."
* Daphne nods. "Aye. That it is." She looks thoughtful. "That's not gonna make 
ye stop lookin, is it?"
* Miya grins suddenly. "Would it stop you?"
* Daphne barks a quick laugh. "It hasn't yet!"
<Miya> See?  So, um.  I guess we could help each other.  I mean, four people are 
better than three... than two...
* Miya blinks. "Yeah."
<Daphne> Maybe. I have to re-find all my leads tho, first, and make sense of 'em 
again. But I'll pass one of ye a note in class or somethin' if I get somethin'.
* Miya nods. "Okay. Thank you." She blinks. "Oh!"
<Daphne> Oh?
<Miya> I'm... um, my name's Miya.  Miya Yoritomi.
<Daphne> Ah. Nice ta meecha, Miya. 
* Daphne offers a handshake.
* Miya hesitates a moment, then shakes Daphne's hand. The way she shakes it 
really doesn't have much strength behind it, though Daphne likely knows better.
<Miya> And, um.  Do you want to spar sometime?  Now or later, whenever.  'Cause 
you said that you'd beat me, and I don't really believe it.
* Daphne does have strength in her shake; her hands feels like someone trying to 
be dainty with a steel vise.
* Miya doesn't seem to mind too much.
* Daphne grins. "Y'don't, eh? Well, we can spar if ye' want. Y'sure you wanna do 
it just straight away like this? No paddin' or nothin'?"
* Miya shrugs. "I'm a little tougher than I look. And, um, you're not trying to 
kill me. Right? So."
* Daphne smirks. "Right. Combat tag it is, then." She rolls her neck once, and 
then says "Right. Whenever yer ready." She is still sitting on the arm of the 
sofa.
* Miya blinks down at Daphne, then mentally shrugs and throws a quick kick at 
one of Daphne's legs, testing her out.
* Daphne catches the kick between her legs, then cartwheels off of the sofa, 
landing Miya on the mat.
* Miya laughs, a strange sound considering the position she's in. She rolls 
easily to her feet.
* Daphne stands, grinning.
<Miya> Wow, you are good.  You'll have to show me how to do that.  If, um, we 
stick around that long.
* Daphne bows. "I give informal lessons to dedicated students, sometimes. 
Y'wanna continue?"
<Miya> Sure.
* Miya plants a foot and spins, throwing a simple kick at Daphne.
* Daphne bends to one side, avoiding the kick. She tags the back of Miya's leg 
as it passes her.
<Daphne> Good form, but I think you could move quicker than that if you had to.
<Miya> Probably can.
<Daphne> Keep coming. ^_^
* Miya grins as she says that, jabbing at Daphne's midsection with one of her 
hands.
* Daphne deflects Miya's blow! "An' ye could definitely put more power intae it. 
You're good, but I think you could be *good*, y'know?"
<Miya> Dad said that.  Reflexes.
* Miya attempts a sweep. "I'm small, though. It doesn't come with much power. I 
have to hit the right spot."
<Daphne> Father taught ye? Hm.
* Daphne hops over the sweep. "Pressure points are good, but if ye're fightin' 
supervillains ye'll need more than aim."
<Daphne> I can teach ye' that, too. An' ye don't even have tae bust yer hands on 
chains for it. Although that helps.
* Miya winces. "Not big on the pain. That's Daegal's thing." She kicks up at 
Daphne.
<Daphne> I don' suppose ye've ever heard of 'no pain no gain'?
* Daphne leans backwards to avoid the kick, eventually falling into some sort of 
backwards somersault.
<Miya> That's a saying here?
<Daphne> Yeh. Mostly for exercise, tho.
* Miya is on her feet and on her guard. She continues, "Huh. But anyway, I got 
into the arts for control, really. Not so I could defend myself or anything. But 
Father... he's not teaching me anymore." Is that resentment in her voice? 
Probably.
* Daphne frowns. "I'm sorry."
<Daphne> Where'ye stayin, if your parent's aren't puttin' ye up?
<Miya> It- it's not your fault.  It's 'cause of what I am.
<Miya> Um, a school.  Not your school!  A different one.
<Daphne> No. It's not what ye are, it's what someone thinks you may be.
* Miya looks confused. "Huh?"
* Daphne waves dismissively. "So yer' a mutie. So what? Y'don' go around making 
problems, right? Y'don't teleport people onto the top of things they can't get 
down from, or into a locked building, or anything like that... 'least, I hope 
not?"
* Miya shakes her head. "No, I don't. I did have to fight a mutant who," she 
makes a face, "held me hostage. But he got kicked and punched and burned and 
zapped and clawed and eventually pushed off the roof, which knocked him out."
* Daphne nods. "That's diff'rent, see. I mean going around and... well, holding 
people hostage. Y'could, but ye don't."
* Miya waves her fingers. "Everyone's scared of me. Oooooo." But she nods.
<Daphne> But since there are those that do, everyone's pissin' their shorts 
about it. I mean... exactly! You're the spooooooky mutant menace.
<Miya> Like canteloupe!
* Miya blushes. "Um."
* Daphne blinks. "Canteloupe?" She rubs her chin thoughtfully. "...never thought 
of it as spooky, really."
<Miya> Well, it is!  On Halloween.  Much spookier than pumpkins.
* Miya nods.
* Daphne chuckles. "Of coruse. Nobody expects the canteloupe."
* Miya nods, then grimaces and spins, lashing out with one foot at the punching 
bag behind her. She doesn't flinch when it makes contact. "But it's one thing to 
say that and another when-" She blinks. "Oh, I'm sorry."
<Daphne> About what? It's what the bag's there for.
<Miya> I mean, um.  Here I am...
* Miya looks down at the floor. "Talking about my problems. That's not... what I 
really came here for. I bet the others are worried or something by now, and- 
and-" She fidgets.
* Daphne shrugs. "Ey, don' worry. An if ye wanna get back to buisness, yes, I'll 
letchae knoo as soon as I find somethin, right?"
* Miya lets out a sigh. "Okay. I just..." She looks up at Daphne. "I was 
just..." She swallows and changes the subject. "Can I ask you a question? You 
don't have to answer if you don't want, but..."
* Daphne shrugs. "Sure."
<Miya> I heard that- that you used to go to parties and things a lot.  And then 
you just didn't.  Overnight.  What happened?
<Daphne> A lot. And by a lot, I mean a lot a lot. Except it didn't, but that's 
not important. The memories stayed with me, and I can't go back to what I was, 
now. So.
* Miya tilts her head, studying Daphne as she absorbs that. Finally, though, she 
just says, "I'm sorry."
* Daphne chuckles. "Thanks, although ye dinnae do it. I'm sorry, too, tho. I had 
it easy before, and now I'm too restless to go back to it. Which is good for me, 
but it kills my free time."
<Miya> I... guess... we all have to grow up, and it just sorta happened early 
for you.
* Miya blinks. Did she just say that? Oh well. She presses on. "But if... 
y'know, I dunno what you went through or anything and, um... I'm kinda shy and 
stuff, but- If you want to talk, I'm around. Can be around. Faster than you 
blink, even." She smiles hesitantly.
* Daphne nods. "Works fer me. Mebbe I'll call and we can go hang out somewhere. 
Kick a few faces."
* Miya laughs. "Okay. Some of the guys might want to come with, though. So you'd 
need to make sure you tell me if you want them coming or not."
<Miya> And you're going to have to show me how to do that counter sometime.
* Daphne grins. "Will do."
<Daphne> [ Session end! I'm melting! MELTING! ]