Test Drive Meme #1

[proximods]

The sun is shining and the weather is nice and toasty. Overly toasty one might argue, even. It's a great day to be laying around at the beach, so it's a good thing that that's where you've found yourself today, whether you'd made plans to be there or not. Bathing suit and sunscreen ready, you're going to get your tanning time on.

But with heat comes the expected side effects for a place like Proxima Gamma. While the cool water can sometimes slow the effects, the heated beaches and freshly popped flowers seem to have made getting close to someone else just seem like a really great idea. You can try to fight off the side effects much as you want, but the scientists like to believe everyone has a breaking point.

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[burnwithawesome]

[Now he's just smiling at her, because even if what she did was pointless, it was still pretty nice of her to try to help him.]

It's my superpower. Watch. [He spreads the fingers of the arm that she is holding out. And then slowly he lights each one of his fingertips on fire.]

[undomesticated]

[Her eyes were on his hand, watching each finger light up with a sort of horrific amazement.]

Wait... did you say super power? Like... tights and capes and flying and stuff?

[burnwithawesome]

Not so much..tights. I do have a suit, though. And I can fly. And I can set way more on fire than just my hand.

[undomesticated]

Wait, wait, wait...

You can fly? Like... fly-fly? In the air?

[Said the girl who changed into a giant cat.]

[burnwithawesome]

Yeah. I can set my whole body on fire and fly through the air. [It sounds ridiculous, and most might think it was a joke, but he was being serious.] It's really fun.

[undomesticated]

Your whole body...?

[That was... wow. Okay. Certainly something new. She poked a finger at one of the fingertips lit up. Yep. Real fire.]

Were you born like that?

[burnwithawesome]

I wish. That would have made High School way more fun than it already was. They would have had to have a fire safety seminar just about me.

[undomesticated]

[She chuckled, letting his hand go now that she knew he wasn't actually hurt or in trouble.]

Please. They would have had someone following you around with fire extinguishers.