This is gonna sound weird but

[ten_zero]

Characters: Bisi and YOU
Date: Month of June
Location: Wood Sector, Tony's Lab, Throughout Keeliai, and in Hatal as Mag
Situation: Bisi is following up on a strange dream. The Somatic Link is completed. Also a catch-all for the month!
Warnings/Rating: None.

A. Hooked on a Feeling

Bisi found herself following an inexplicably familiar path into the wood sector,towards a very particular patch of soil. Unlike in her dream, she couldn't walk the path, so she wheeled her way through the dirt in her chair, uncertain the spot even existed.

It was hard to say with 100% certainty that this was the place that she'd seen before but... it felt right. She haltingly stepped off of her chair and settled onto the ground and started to... dig. The dream had made burrowing into the ground with your bare hands seem a lot simpler than it was in practice. She'd only gotten through a few inches of topsoil before her hands were throbbing and her nails cracked and bleeding.

"Ow..." She should have brought a shovel.

B-1. 80's Montage

Bisi's discovery of the dreaming medallion, a theory about how to set up the somatic link, and work proceeded quickly from there. The somatic link would function as a beacon in the dreaming, allowing Bisi to follow it towards Mag. There was no cryogenic chamber to freeze Bisi in time, but there was a device to put her to sleep.

Bisi slid the headpiece over her head. "Wish me luck!" Trial run commencing.

B-2. Lucid Dreaming

The device powered on and Bisi woke up somewhere else - Bisi immediately recognized the grand halls of organic smooth walls and bioluminescent plants - an Orokin tower. She took a step - noticing immediately again that she could walk. She was momentarily startled by the nearby sound of gunfire. She turned to herself on the front lines of a battle - Grineer lancers exchanging fire with Corrupted Corpus.

"I'm dreaming," Bisi said, saying aloud the revelation. At her words, all the soldiers and corrupted stopped and turned to her, waiting. It wasn't here, it was...

Bisi rose into the air and flew. She passed twisting hallways and grand galleries, through the gateways into the Void beyond. She was flying to Earth... no, to its moon. The moon wasn't on earth anymore. The Lotus had moved it. She rushed through the void, coming upon the massive satellite, and further down she went, to the Orokin installation she was looking for. The one with The Resevoir. Mag was there.

She floated down in front of a large waterfall, and six pods began to emerge. The first one pulled in front of her and opened, beckoned for her. She climbed into the pod, relaxing as it closed down over her. Darkness. Then Light.

B-3. Full of Stars

Bisi didn't wake up - Mag did. Her movements were lazy, languid. She was waking up for the first time in awhile. Her faceplate was alight - not glass, but translucent all the same. Energy shifted around in complex and mesmerizing patterns.

Bisi was still asleep in her chair - this time, the voice came from Mag and Mag alone. Mature, only the slightest hint of cold otherworldliness.

"Hello."

Mag studied the faces around her. She knew who all of these people were, but she was seeing them for the first time all the same.

C-1. Paint the Town Red

Mag is extremely happy to be Mag again, and is absent the hotel and most of her usual spots while she just roams. She revels in her newfound mobility, springint down thoroughfares, scaling buildings, and running atop rooftops with abandon.

C-2. Ooops

Of course not every surface in Keeliai is necessarily designed to take a relatively heavy humanoid robot running and jumping all over it, and Mag finds herself accidentally breaking off a chunk of building as she climbs along the side. She lands heavily on the ground, debris falling in small pieces nearby, shattering a window and some nearby tables and chairs.

The Kedan inside are reasonably upset and Mag tries her best to de-escalate the problem.

"I'm sorry, I fix it, somehow. Please calm down."

C-3. Souvenir Shopping

Suddenly extremely mobile, Mag is free to visit Hatal! She's glad she had a chance to do so before the turtle broke landfall. Many people have recommended visiting, and it was difficult with a wheelchair.

Mag can be found in just about anywhere in Hatal, exploring, looking all the tourist a strange silver metal woman with a glowing face can look.

D. Is For Distracted

Bisi is very scarce in her usual hangouts this month. She doesn't come by the hotel at all in her chair, opting to sleep in Tony's lab, leaving only to get food near the college.

E. Wildcard!

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C2

[problematical]

River steps out of the way of the building debris with an almost acrobatic grace, staring up at the new damage to its facade before the kedan who lived there come out and start accosting Mag, and River drifts closer.

"You're not angry, not really. You're making it up," she says bluntly, at one of the kedan, who sputters a bit at the accusation.

[ten_zero]

"They are?" Mag asked, confused. She looked at the Kedan and back to river.

Mag's voice emanated from her body, rather than from a mouth or from speakers.

sorry for the slow!!

[problematical]

The kedan splutter indignantly, trying to maintain their affronted expressions in the face of such a bold and seemingly unprompted claim, but it's clear that their facades have been shaken.

"They are," she affirmed, unruffled by their reaction. "So they're the ones who should be apologizing to you."

no worries!

[ten_zero]

"I don't understand," Mag said, turning to the shopkeeper.

"If you're not angry, why would you pretend to be?"

[problematical]

Caught in their lie, or apparent lie, the shopkeepers fumble for a response. "You damaged our building," one replies, but it's a much weaker repetition of the initial accusation.

"They want something," River said, as if translating a foreign language.

[ten_zero]

"What do you want? You could have just asked..." she was a little hurt at the attempt to manipulate her.

[problematical]

Caught flatfooted, and apparently unwilling to maintain the facade in the presence of two Foreigners, the kedan mutter excuses and bow out.

"It isn't your fault," River says to Mag.

[ten_zero]

"I..." She looked after the Kedan as they retreated.

"I'm just confused. Um. River, right?"

[problematical]

She nods, watching the kedan leave. River wishes that she could somehow fix the damage caused so that they couldn't pull the same stunt on someone else, but that's not within her skill sets.

"I'm River," she affirms. "But I don't know you."

D

[purrns]

Adrien has noticed the lack of Bisi in the Hotel for a while. At first, he assumed she'd gone home, back to where she belonged. It was a sad thought, but he was glad for her.

That was until he heard talk of otherwise. Following that, he finally found himself in Tony's lab, getting to what he hoped would be the end of his search. He waits outside, knocking the door - politeness first. Can't just burst in after all.

[ten_zero]

Adrien caught Bisi with perfect timing, as if he'd arrived while she was communing with Mag, he'd have gotten no answer. She answered the door with a piece of jerky in hand, looking rather groggy.

"Oh, Adrien. Hi." She found herself blushing. Did he come to see her?

[purrns]

At the sight of her, his smile brightens considerably. He likes Bisi, after all, and he's relieved to see she's okay. Anything can happen here, after all.

"Hi, Bisi," he replies, giving a small wave of his hand, either not seeing or not paying attention to the blushing- it was a thing girls generally did around him back home, you learn to tune it out. "I was just coming to check up on you, see how you are. I haven't seen a lot of you at the hotel lately."

[ten_zero]

"Right. Yeah. I've been... preoccupied. I'm sorry if I worried you."

It was kind of a reminder that she was doing things before Mag. She wondered now if continuing her work at the hotel would be necessary. Mag had a few more practical skills than Bisi did. Maybe living in the Sky Sector wasn't out of the question either. She was sure Tony couldn't have her living out of his lab indefinitely.

"How have... things?" Words. What?

[purrns]

"It's okay, I'm glad everything's good though. It is, right?"

He chuckles softly at her mix of words. It reminds him of Marinette, and that in of itself is endearing. He tucks some hair behind his ear,smiling.

"Things have been pretty good. I'm volunteering at Raine's clinic now. It's pretty great," his smile turns a little more playful. "How have your...things?"

[ten_zero]

Wow, this was embarrassing. Why was she so flustered??? She was extremely grateful Adrien wasn't making a huge deal about it but she blushed extra hard when he mirrored the statement. It created a rush of... something. She didn't know what, but there was alot of it.

"That's- yes. It's good. I, um." She wasn't sure how much she wanted to talk about Mag with Adrien. Adrien gave her a glimpse into another world. He let her imagine what life might have been like in a different time, a different place. One without perpetual war or tragic backstories. And while Mag was a part of her, it was a part of her intrinsic to her warrior nature.

"Raine is very nice. Do you have medical training?"

[purrns]

He senses he's probably treading on ground she'd rather keep to herself, and doesn't push any more. He knows about secrets, how important they are. He has no intention of prying. She deserves her secrets, as everyone else does.

"Not before I came here, no," he shrugs, his smile turning a touch sad. "After the earthquakes in Lorne, I really wanted to make a difference. Help people, you know? I figured that was a goo way to do it."

And then he can use that knowledge as Chat. He absolutely doesn't want to face a situation where lives are lost when they could be saved ever again. Not if he has anything to do with it.

"Raine is pretty awesome, though. Do you know her well?"

[ten_zero]

"I'm not sure if I know anyone here well," she explained. Actually, she could probably expand that statement by removing the 'here.' Wow, that was really depressing to consider.

"But she's been very friendly and helpful. It's an important trade, and I think you'll be great at it."

B-3

[craftlife]

When Mag powers on, Deon's apprehensive. And excited! But the last time he'd met a remotely-controlled robot, it hadn't ended well, so forgive him his trepidation.

"Bisi?"

[ten_zero]

"Yes... mostly," Mag replied. She looked down at her hands, turning them over. Alien yet familiar. Comfortable.

Her scanners were flickering to life, feeding her streams of tactical data.

After a moment of reflection, her voice was one of joy. "I'm back."

[craftlife]

Deon smiles a little bit.

"Mostly?"

But it's good to hear such joy in Bisi's (?) voice.

"If you're mostly Bisi, is there something else I should call you?"

[ten_zero]

"Mag. It... simplifies things. I'm not just Bisi when I'm inside of a warframe."

She fluidly slid off of the table and flexed slightly. She rolled her shoulders, squatted slightly, then slid into the Solstace Narta.

[craftlife]

"Mag, then," Deon says, and steps back to give her the space she needs. He understands self-determination, though more in AIs than in drone-human linkages. Though it seems like Mag is her own person as well; a symbiosis, then.

He watches her perform the...kata, he supposes. "Is that a practice form?"

[ten_zero]

"Yes," she says, although she stops speaking until she finishes the form, ending it with a bow.

"The Solstace narta. It's one of the martial arts we use, from what we could piece together from ancient practices. The Orokin cared little for them, but the Tenno have built our disciplines on these ancient forms."

[craftlife]

Deon nods, and watches Mag go through the form until she's completed it.

"I don't think I've ever heard you speak much about the Orokin or the Tenno."

[ten_zero]

"Yes its... painful. There's regret, and anger, and... guilt."

But Deon had absolutely earned it. "...where would I start?"