Who: Maxine Hunkel & Open NPCs: None When: Tuesday, May 5, 2012, dawn Where: Metropolis What: Maxine tests out her skills Rating: G
With her courses now finished for a few weeks, Maxine had time to concentrate on other things. Designs for costumes, books, and then ... something else that she'd been deliberately putting off.
As thrilled and enamored of heroes as she was, her own very much filled her with depression. The circumstances surrounding them, her kidnapping, the death of her parents ...
"This is a gift," she told herself, calmly. "You are going to take what was given to you and make something good from it." The air around her stirred as her palms faced outwards. She could almost see the air around her focus towards them, and could slowly bend it into a gentle whirlwind. It surrounded her, picking up leaves in the empty part. Her hair whipped in the mini tornado, her shoes slowly lifting off the earth.
Maxine looked upwards, into the still darkened sky. "Up," she whispered. Just as the first slivers of sunlight slid across the horizon, the young woman was off the ground in a rush of air.