tampered | XANADU OPERA TIME

WHEN: Jan. 15 | the Xanadu gardens.
CHARACTERS: Everyone.
SUMMARY: we interrupt your regular Xanadu viewing for the following special reminder: ...the visit ain't over til the bloody plant sings.

That's right: our green belle been giving rather ~~obnoxious~~ titillating performances in Xanadu, to what can only be the... enjoyment... of certain Citizens. Adding injury to insult, it's quite possible that a couple of residents have also captured the plant's tune on film, and now the video's been turned into a network viral phenomenon!

But as Citizens surely know, every grand artist needs a doting live audience: come get dibs on more plant footage? Save someone from its evil clutches? Help a poor soul that's got lost in the gardens' great expanse? Get the plant to sign with your talent agency? Embark on a mystical quest to get it to shut up?

Just put your chlorophyll-tinted glasses on, and anything is possible.

[ ooc: Find whatever excuse to throw your character in Xanadu, tag someone new, and all around: GET IN HERE. Just as a note: hearing the plant is definitely optional, so please don't think it's an overwhelming sound that'd keep your character up at night or some such. It's just a log prompt. XD ]

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Starfleet, yeah. It's technically a "peacekeeping and humanitarian armada", and we explore, too... but it's still military.

And it is all in space? [ He mentioned a spaceship. Tessa can hardly imagine such things, has no frame of reference for it but the one book she started once and didn't finish because everything was so unfamiliar. ] Truly?

Right. [ He gives her a slight smile. ] Space and other planets. Sometimes our own, too -- I went to the Academy in San Francisco.

[ Tessa might have thought that she left wide-eyed wonder behind when she accepted that Shadowhunters and angels and demons and otherworlders are real, but apparently that is not the case. ] And there is life on other planets?

[ McCoy will just attempt to navigate the both of them a bit away from the plant so they can have this conversation without it trying to eat them. ] There is. A lot of it, in fact.

[ Tessa'll follow him willingly where he's navigating them. ] What is it like?

Depends on the planet, and the life you want to hear about. Vulcan, for example, that's a desert climate. Delta Vega is all ice.

And there's- people living on a planet that is all ice? They must be very acclimated to the cold.

Not as far as we know, though there's a Starfleet outpost there. There's animals, though. Not very friendly ones, either.

[ Tessa nods, slowly. ] It seems very hard to imagine that there should be life on other planets, but then I rather thought it would be hard to believe that vampires and fae and angels and demons are real, and yet they are.

[ There's a slight chuckle. ] See, life on other planets is just a fact for me. You're takin' it better than I took all the news about vampires an' so forth.

I had practice, I suppose, in having my worldview shaken up; I'd only gotten used to the vampires and warlocks and Shadowhunters before arriving here.

I've been told I'm a skeptic.

It is hard to doubt something when you have proof of it.

That depends on how many ways you think you can explain it away -- but in the end, yeah, you're right.

If you yourself were able to Change into a vampire or Change at all, I do not think it would be possible to explain such a thing away.

[ There's a slight chuckle. ]

No, probably not. I'll take your word for it.

Since you cannot Change, I believe you will have to.

[ Slightest hesitation. ] I could show you.

[ A pause of his own. ]

Only if you feel comfortable doin' it.

It no longer hurts. [ She's not perfectly comfortable with it, but that has less to do with showing him and more with the fact that part of her still believes herself a monster for the ability, even though her time in the City and the acceptance of people here have helped considerably.

But she trusts Doctor McCoy, and she wants him to understand, or at least get close to understanding, what she is and what she can do. If he can still accept her after that, would that not mean that she is not a monster after all? ]

I would not wish to do it here, though. [ Too many people around. ]

It used to hurt? [ That makes sense, if he thinks about it, but it doesn't mean he has to be happy about it. He doesn't want her to hurt. ]

I don't blame you. [ He runs a hand through his hair for a moment, considering. ] Do you have a place in mind, or...? [ There's his apartment, of course, but it's sort of bare. For some reason, the idea of taking Tessa there, to a place that's obviously just a place to eat and sleep, doesn't sit well with him. ]

It felt as though I was ripped apart from the inside. [ That is the closest she can come to an accurate description. ]

Anywhere that has fewer people would be acceptable, I should think. Perhaps the youth centre, or even the library.

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[ Jesus. He'd swear, but Tessa's a sixteen-year-old girl with Victorian sensibilities. ]

Wherever you're most comfortable.

The library, then. [ Tugging a hand into the crook of his arm. ]

[ He'll just pat her hand and let her lead. ]

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