We're not in the Kasugayama Bomb Shelter anymore, Dorothy.

[positively]

Oh, my-- it sure is dark in here, isn't it? It's a good thing I've got a flashlight.

Is anybody else lost down here? Stay where you are and call out, and I'll come to you with the light. I've learned my lesson about letting people run into cave walls in the dark!

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[judas_ace]

Lots. And we're all lost in the dark?

It's far from the worst day I've ever had, but it's not in the running for best either.

[bythehorns]

That is, I think, a description that, I would agree with...

[coming closer, peering at]

You are, another human...?

[judas_ace]

That's right.

[casually, as though he's done it before, he hits the wall beside him. And then he starts to glow, his body surrounded by a golden aura, though he's mostly looking at Tavros. His expression is interested and a little puzzled.]

And that implies you're not. Are you an alien?

[bythehorns]

[squinty, blinking at the light]

Uh, I'm from, a different planet than humans, so, from your perspective, I am, an alien.

I didn't know, humans could light up, like that.

[judas_ace]

You're the first alien I've seen who looked like that, but I guess that doesn't mean much. There have to be plenty of them who haven't come to Earth.

[he shrugs; he's had powers for long enough that it's not a big deal to him]

Most of them can't. I'm an ace, not a nat.

[bythehorns]

Our universe, was separate from yours, so, that's why, we never went there.

I don't, uh, know those words, but it sounds like, it's sort of like, the hemospectrum, I mean, like different kinds of you, have different powers?

Only, not like the hemospectrum, because, humans all have red blood, I think.

[judas_ace]

I've never heard of the hemospectrum either.

I don't know about that. Some jokers probably don't, not anymore. Maybe some aces don't either.

[a little thoughtfully, because he hadn't considered it before] I don't even know if mine's still red.