Brooklyn, Summer Personified (summerlove) wrote in beyond_evo, @ 2020-08-28 12:02:00 |
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Entry tags: | blaze, nightcrawler, steampunk |
THE HEAT IS BLAZING LIKE THE 4TH OF JULY / I GOT THE AIR CON ON, AND IT'S BLASTED ON HIGH!
This was nuts and it was getting more nuts! Brooklyn's 16th had started with a dismal forecast — rain, rain, more rain — which really dampened her plans if not her mood. Instead of the outdoor gathering she was going to have lakeside out of town, things had shifted to a garage party at home which, okay, wasn't what she was going for, but nonetheless it was going to be fine. You didn't turn sweet sixteen every year, and she was especially excited about this one. Of course when she was setting up for said party with her bestie was when things really started to go actually nuts. She was setting up the drinks when when flames leaped from her hands suddenly, shocking her into a scream. It was worse when the garage wall caught fire, and things went worse from there. When she and her friend made it out safely from the roaring blaze the sun was shining vibrantly in the sky, and the backyard lawn looked rather dry. Which... didn't help the fire that was raging near it.
All said and done the fire department's prompt response stopped things from getting worse.
But that didn't mean that things weren't still going sideways. The sunny weather had only intensified, or so it felt, and Brooklyn was still having little tingles and small jets of fire from her hands. So she was outdoors after setting a curtain on fire in her house, sitting on the front steps of her single story, single family home, trying to keep herself from lighting anything else on fire. She'd heard of mutants of course, who hadn't? She just never thought she'd be one, but there was no other explanation to conjuring flames. Except her parents were indoors now talking with the fire department and police about 'arson' and 'suspicious fires over the summer' as if she had somehow set her own garage on fire just now on her birthday for what, attention?
So she wasn't precisely happy that they didn't get that something was going on with her though her parents believed her at least, because it was ridiculous. The one part she hadn't put together yet was the unyielding sun and — god it was hot! But why would she have put the intense drought-like conditions in Saskatoon to her being able to light a garage (whoops) on fire? There was no reason to because it was actually summer and Saskatchewan had unpredictable weather in general, but she absolutely noticed the change. She'd just pushed herself up from her sitting position to go back inside into the air conditioning, but also to plead her case because this was stupid, when something else happened.
Two new arrivals appearing on her front lawn, and one of them was definitely a mutant.