Petra Munteanu is secretly Wanda Maximoff (witchweird) wrote in thegalaxy, @ 2016-05-16 16:32:00 |
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Entry tags: | river tam, wanda maximoff |
WHO: Wanda and River (and maybe Mika)
WHAT: Random encounter
WHERE: Outside Mika's
WHEN: After Wanda visits Mika
Wanda stepped lightly on the stairs leading down to the street from Mika's apartment. She paused there, having momentarily forgotten which direction she'd come from. The box tucked beneath her arm seemed nevertheless to be bigger and more obvious than it had been when she'd brought it to Mika's. Knowledge could do that; knowledge could change everything. It was a box of secrets, but Wanda knew some of them now.
Wanda felt off center, not so much because of what Mika had said as because of what she'd experienced herself, what Mika had called the Force. It was...so different. Unsettling. It took all her concentration to hold the box tucked under her arm like it was nothing. But she didn't want to draw attention by doing anything strange.
Like standing staring at the street with no idea which way to go for too long. Feeling self-conscious, Wanda looked around and spotted a bench a little way down the street in a tiny park crammed in between the buildings. Wanda's ship was unfriendly territory; no reason to hurry back. The bench looked far more inviting. She would settle her mind by doing a little people-watching.
The box she set on the bench beside her, perhaps a little further away than she would have this morning when it had been a thing of hope to her. Now... It was irrational to blame the box for having secrets; so she was irrational. She would do better in a moment.