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Tweak says, "SHARPEN YO" PENCIL!"

Susannah 'Sookie' Sully (sookie_sully) wrote in spinningcompass,
@ 2017-06-27 22:36:00

Entry tags:

sookie sully, tom sully jr

Who: Sookie and Tommy
Where: Outside the Sully house in the backyard.
When: After she asked him to meet her.
Warnings: Low, possible mentions of Sookie being in a place at war.
Open: To Sullys and others that might be at the house.

Sookie formed a small fireball between her hands and walked around the yard slowly, melting the snow and warming the area. She then directed the fire into a lantern, and hung the lantern from a tree branch to give them more light. Adjusting to being home was strange enough without the cold and dark. She had so much to catch up on with her family, just seeing them again and knowing they were okay was huge. And she didn't mind the chance to show off.

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sookie_sully
2017-07-06 10:56 pm UTC (link)

"I think they make it stronger, work in tandem with my magic. And most of the time, the implants work like they would with the other mages." Sookie looked at him. "You don't need to worry about wrecking it. The technomage's equipment is based on shadow tech, meant to withstand the worst wars." She'd seen shadow tech recovered from planets that had been destroyed.

"I do." She answered. "Any technomage with the implants can use it. It's kind of like having a remote control in your body that you use with your mind. It takes practice though. I've seen mages ride them around or go really high. I'm still learning that."

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tom_jr
2017-07-11 04:50 pm UTC (link)

He nodded when she pointed out he wouldn't be shorting anything out, and ran his hand round the edge of the thing. "That's pretty cool," he said, watching as his sparks showed the edges of the platform close to where he was touching it. "I don't want to try it out, but the technology sounds amazing."

He let go of the platform after that, absently trying to get all the sparks to go to one place at least, but that just made them act all kinds of stupid, flaring up and sputtering out and all sorts, so he let them be. "What else do you have? Do you have scars from the implants? Where are the implants? You've mentioned these shadows a couple times, what are they?"

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sookie_sully
2017-07-14 12:16 am UTC (link)

"Most of the rest of my stuff are things I can generate." Sookie nodded. "I have scars." She turned and moved her hair out of the way, letting him see the scar that started on her neck. It went all the way down her back, most of it hidden by her clothes. "The implants are a part of my central nervous system now."

She paused, thinking of the best way to explain the different races to someone who hadn't been to that universe. "There were races, called the first ones, that were older than humans, billions of years older. Most of them moved beyond the rim of known space. The vorlons and the shadows stayed behind. They were supposed to help the younger races, like humans and so many other races." She paused again. "But the vorlons and the shadows couldn't agree on how do it. The vorlons thought we needed order. The shadows believed that growth came from conflict. Kind of a survival of the fittest. They worked in secret, manipulating governments to start wars, creating weapons, doing all kinds of terrible things. They made the technology. The technomages figured how to use it without them. Eventually there was an all out war with the shadows."

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tom_jr
2017-07-14 11:42 pm UTC (link)

Tommy almost reached out to brush a finger along the scar on her neck, forgetting about his sparks for the moment. "Did... did it hurt?" he asked quietly, not really expecting something like that. He'd thought maybe they'd be little small things, scars like a deep papercut or something similar. The thought of his sister hurting... his mind threatened to skitter away at the notion, but he forced himself to pay attention to what Sookie was saying.

"Did you meet them? The shadows or the ...vorons? No, vorlons. Did you get caught up in the war?"

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sookie_sully
2017-07-16 03:30 am UTC (link)

"It did. But it was manageable." Sookie answered, not wanting to explain how the pain was like an initiation to her, a shared experienced with the other mages. "It doesn't hurt anymore."

"I never met a shadow. That's a good thing." Sookie had seen others changed and manipulated by them. She wouldn't have wanted to bring that back to the island. "There was a Vorlon, Kosh, that was an ambassador. He usually wore an encounter suit. I've heard stories about what he looked like without it, but I don't know if I believe them." She shook her head. "I was only around for the start of the war. When things got bad, we went into hiding."

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tom_jr
2017-07-16 11:00 pm UTC (link)

"Okay. Okay, good," he said with a brief nod, before something occurred to him. "Do you know how long you were away? What else can you show me here? I liked the sound of that Associate thing, but what's shadow-skin? If the shadow people are the bad guys, why do you have their technology?"

He yawned after that. Not through boredom, but because he was exhausted. "Show me something else, and then I'll have to make coffee. Do you want some?"

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sookie_sully
2017-07-17 09:31 pm UTC (link)

"I told Mom it was a year, but it was longer than that. I was there from 2259 to 2261." Sookie answered. "Shadow skin is what covers a shadow vessel. It's black and shimmery and always moving. There's little waves of energy running through it. Technomages can cover themselves with it, for protection." The history would be harder to explain. The technomages had the tech by the time she arrived. "The shadows created the technology. They gave it to a race called the Taratimude and tried to turn them into soldiers for them. One of the Taratimude escaped and created the technomage order. It spread to the other races from there."

"One quick thing then?" She took a step back and then projected a small, cute, holographic kitten that walked over to her brother and put its paw on his foot. With a wave of her hand and a few words muttered, the kitten disappeared. "I'd love some coffee. And maybe a slice of pie?" She was still a Sully.

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tom_jr
2017-07-18 07:49 pm UTC (link)

Tommy blinked at the dates she gave. "That's even further on than Dad and Uncle Jakes," he said, and wanted to see the Shadow skin. And all the other things. Including a little cat that pawed at his feet. "Are you better at it than the other technomages because you're actually using magic as well?" he wondered out loud, catching himself from bending down to pet the cat. "Izzy's gonna love that one. She'll have you making unicorns and tribbles and fan lizards all the time," he added with a smile.

"I'll see if there's pie or if Dad found all the hiding places again."

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sookie_sully
2017-07-18 09:20 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, it was a different universe too. No one knew of Na'vi or Pandora. And there were so many other races." Sookie shrugged. "Having actual magic helps, but they had years of experience and study. Plus, they were defending themselves. Instead of a little kitten, they could make great holographic dragons and demons that could scare anyone. And the same holodemons could go into a computer system, like a virus and shut down an enemy's tech." She giggled. "Mom will love it too. Pets that won't shed or make a mess."

She nodded and followed him inside. "Maybe there's some hidden in the fridge, in the crisper." She suggested.

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tom_jr
2017-07-19 09:22 pm UTC (link)

Tommy headed over to the fridge and opened it up, not worried about his sparks interacting with any of the power or components in it - enough Sullys had been overcharged at one point or another that most of the big kitchen things had been tweaked to take that into account. He rummaged around and found a couple of different bits of pie. "I got a slice of cherry, and ... Apple. There's some apple, and I dunno what this one is." Three different plates got set out on the counter, and then Tommy set about making coffee.

"So... could you make a holographic ikran?" he asked, once the coffee was brewing, "or do you just make little things at the moment?"

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sookie_sully
2017-07-19 11:33 pm UTC (link)

Sookie smiled and took a look at the apple pie, to see if it was made from the apples on the farm. So much had changed while she was gone, it was good to know that her family would always have pie and coffee. "Which slice do you want?" She asked. It had been so long, she'd forgotten what his favourites were.

"I could make it. The challenge would be trying to project it any distance. It would pretty much only work if I was standing right next to it. And I wouldn't be able to give it life, not yet. Maybe with practice." She'd keep up with her magic and maybe she'd be able to defend her family from whatever was coming next.

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