Who will tell your story?

[solomonjihad]

[Sometimes after the trial, Astarte decides to burn her anger off in the kitchen. That's a good idea, right? Right?? This trial really opened her eyes. Monsters - real monsters - they could be in any form.

The voice would be enjoying the anger, if it had not been so suppressed beforehand. If the anger hadn't been real, righteous anger like Astarte feels.

At some point, the small of cooked pumpkin wafts through the air, and soon enough in the first floor lobby, there's a little paper at the merchandising booth.

CAKE AND COFFEE IN THE TEA ROOM.

Its not a crazy recipe - its just pumpkin bread. Where did Astarte get the pumpkin to make it? Who knows? In any case, at least one loaf is a little burnt on the bottom. There's also a large thermos of coffee on the table. Feel free to help yourselves.

Astarte, for her part, is sitting in the tea room, staring at the fire as she drinks her cup of coffee. Staring, and thinking. Ruminating.

There are more question than answers that have come up, after all.]

Comments

[robitussin]

Yeah, I got—

[Waaaait for it.]

...Dude, what the fuck!

[inforapenny]

SHHH!! Not- not so loud!

I'm not- ugh, it's complicated. All the so-called "heroes" are total self-absorbed jerks who just- just happen to have really good PR and absolutely no desire to help anyone beside themselves.

[robitussin]

[Time for stage whispering??]

And you're making it better by doing what, exactly?

[inforapenny]

By- by disrupting the status quo.

I- I don't hurt people. I just...

I made a freeze ray so I could stop time to work up the nerve to talk to a girl at the laundromat, and- and I run a vlog where I talk about things that need to change in the world, and I tried to steal gold bars with a trans-matter ray, but I ended up with bouillon instead of bullion and...

I don't hurt people. That's not my M.O.

[robitussin]

...Why do you call yourself a supervillain if you don't hurt anyone or do anything, like, villain-like?

[inforapenny]

Where I'm from, obstructing municipal government, opposing the status quo, and- and being smart are all pretty villainous.

I-I stole gold bars, and I blew up all the parking meters in the city - exploding quarters, so it's... it's not- the explosions were very contained. I wanted to grind to a halt the wheels of municipal government, not, you know. Hurt anyone.

...Mostly it's just. Getting the crap beaten out of me by Captain Hammer.

[He tenses.]

Promise- promise you won't tell Anna. I-I mean, she kind of knows, already, and I-I'll tell her, just... Yeah. Uh. Yeah.

[robitussin]

I won't tell her, but...

[She gives him a look.]

Dude, if the worst thing you've done is blown up a parking meter, she's not going to care. Her ex tried to murder her sister and take her country.

[inforapenny]

Yeah, I really don't... have a high bar to clear, there. But still, I... I think she should hear it from me.

[robitussin]

Sure thing. I won't tell her.