Diana had fallen silent for a time, considering the idea that Thor had just presented. She had been told by every person here that the hotel was haunted, full stop, those were the facts. And yet it had taken Thor to push her in a different direction, wondering whether the hotel was haunted or whether they were haunting it. Not in the sense that these residents were dead, but that they were generating their own personal horrors. “That could be exactly what it is. I have nothing but the humans’ word that this is a haunting, and I did not even confirm with John Constantine if that was fully the case.” Her tone implied what a stupid oversight that had been. Magic and the supernatural were John Constantine’s thing, although he had been one of the ones to tell her it was haunted.
Diana had noticed the spark, the second time lightning had flashed between them, and part of her wanted to ask. The rest of her was somewhat afraid of the answer, and shouted that it was simply their heritages. Diana had done a little research, and come to understand that Odin, Thor’s father, was something of a counterpart to Zeus. Both Kings, both imbued with lightning powers. Of course their children would exchange some shocks. And never mind that that had not happened when Ares had touched her, not once.
“I had thought you would. I didn’t give her names, as I hadn’t spoken to you or Kal yet, but she told me to point you at her if you’d like to help.” Diana was pleased to see that she had been right, moreso in Thor’s case than Kal’s.
Here again, Diana was ignoring something important. Thor was not the first non-human she’d met here, although Kal was an alien and not of Earth. Though she supposed technically Thor was as well. The point was that she had spent slightly more time with Thor by now, but on paper, the two should’ve been about the same, in her estimation. Diana did not attach to people easily, and that showed even in the way she’d interacted with the humans so far, occasionally forgetting which one she had said which thing to, or which one had said which thing to her. Mayflies, as she’d said. Thor and Kal were not mayflies, neither one of them, and yet, she had mentally put a set of wings on Kal anyway, and Thor stood alone.
Why was that? “Maybe we’ll get paired up on patrol. That would be nice.” For many reasons, and Diana chose one at random, but it was nowhere near the top of the list. “At least I know you can take care of yourself, should anything happen. Not that you’d need to.”