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lana_bombshell ([info]lana_bombshell) wrote in [info]kings_ransom,
@ 2008-04-28 20:59:00

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Who: Lana, Drake, and Gwen
Where: The Hallways of the King’s Ransom
What: Touring the Ship
When: Around 3pm


Lana sighed as she chucked one last rock overboard, not watching but listening to the explosion as it tore apart. Last night had been the most fun she had had in so long. A girl’s night out, making new friends. Drinks that they took turns picking up the tabs on even though the effect was basically that they spent the same amount they would have had they simply paid for their own beverages. A bit of gambling where self-control proved to be handy. Those girls, Mag and Niki, were a hoot. It was nice to get out and do things with people she could relate to. It made it a shame that she had to resort back to this annoying routine of blowing things up.

The femme had found the most remote area of the deck that she could so as to avoid questions, all the while hoping that none would skip questions and simply confront her to complain about the risk doing something like that could run for all aboard. It was broad daylight so the explosion wouldn’t be witnessed easily and she would say so if anyone approached. Perhaps if people knew there was a greater risk in her not doing this they would never think to ask. After all, if she didn’t release the pent up energy it would find ways to dispel itself into anything she might touch and risk seriously hurting someone.

Either option would be met with hostility, but who could blame them? Did she really even have a right to encroach on their lives, knowing she could harm them any moment or endanger them? Sure she had been invited by two very nice men, but she hadn’t told them she had to do this every day or run the risk of losing control. Would they have still allowed her to come? Sure they might have. After all, she wouldn’t be the only mutant with a dangerous power. Hell, Mag was probably the strongest being alive and she could seriously harm someone. Lana thought that the head chef might have a bit more control over her power than the Hawaiian, though. No, no… She had plenty of control and her routine system of doing things worked for her. She hadn’t lost control in… what? A year and a half? Quite a long time for her and it was only because she had overslept that one day. She didn’t expect to lose control now, so why tell anyone she could if she didn’t do this? She had nothing to prove to them. They could go kiss off if they didn’t like it.

What was she doing! Sitting there, thinking about confrontations that had neither occurred, nor had any likeliness of occurring? A smile twitched the corner of her lips up, and she shook her head before running her long fingers through her hair and lifting herself to standing. It would do her no good to continue making up conversations in her head when she didn’t even know her way around her new home.

So, Lana left the dry heat of the day and moved back within the controlled climate of the ship. It was high time she found her way around it so she knew more than simply the ways to the galley, the deck, and her room. On a vehicle this size there had to be more than just that. Considering she had plenty of time she decided she would move slowly, take in all the sites. The ship was beautiful and she was in no hurry. Bare feet padded lightly down the corridors as she began her little self-sustained tour.


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[info]lana_bombshell
2008-04-30 04:49 am UTC (link)
Lana began wondering if she were even really giving herself a genuine tour. Could a person ever really tour a place and understand it without a guide or prior knowledge? Maybe she should try to find Drake or Kesh? After all, they were the first she had met and it would be nice to meet them again and gain a bit more information on the place they had invited her to live. Besides, it wouldn’t do well if she were to become lost simply because she decided to peruse the ship alone.

The femme had herself so immersed in her thoughts of finding a familiar face that, when one finally arrived, she jerked back with a gasp. She thought it quite good that she hadn’t been touching anything while she walked, and that she had only just finished her daily, routine explosions, or there could have been a risk of charging something by accident. As it was, Lana regained her calm quite quickly and she returned Drake’s smile with a pleasant one of her own. “Ah, yes. A tour and just the guide I was searching for has conveniently hopped into my path.” She responded, lifting her dark, almond eyes to the ceiling to glance at the rafters before returning her gaze to his face.

A thought flitted through her mind, the memory of Niki’s reaction to her. If Niki could transform into animals and sense whatever it was she sensed, could a feral do the same? Did he sense that strangeness about her that radiated… what? Electricity? She didn’t know that it was electricity, but it must be something. The femme was just about to question Drake about it when she noticed someone turn the corner and suddenly spout apologies.

The longer Lana looked at the woman the more she thought she must have seen her somewhere. Or perhaps she simply looked like some famous movie star she had seen on the big screen. Then again, she claimed to originate in Hawaii and even said she might have seen the darker femme. Suddenly she laughed as she recalled where she must have seen the other woman before. “I’m Lana Tiki. I’m was also picked up in Hawaii by this one here.” She motioned toward Drake. “I think I might have seen you before, too. With a last name like mine in Hawaii anything that has my name on it is fun to go into and laugh about later. How many can say they’ve been to a bar bearing their namesake? I can. I have. You were a waitress or a bartender in one, right? I’m not sure that you waited on me, though.” The harder she thought about it the less she really remembered. She only recalled a slightly built woman with a pained expression on her face that almost resembled the nervousness darkening her features now. “Oh, it would hardly do if you left! You’re as new as I am. Have you toured the place yet? Drake here was just about to be my guide. You should come with us if you don’t have any pressing matters to attend to.”

Lana had been a social butterfly for as long as she could remember. There was a short period of time where she avoided people while she still got used to her powers, but after that gregariousness was like a perfectly fitted mask she could wear whenever she had need of it. Not that she minded the mask. It was like a second skin that she could stand for quite a while before feeling stifled. Perhaps most people were like that. After all, everyone needs their privacy as well as their companionship. It all depended on the time.

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