[center][color=fbe5cd][h3]Testing the Tarry Waters[/h3][/color]
A collab between [@Old Amsterdam] and yours truly to act as an interlude[/center]
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Kendall sat in a well-lit room, a hospital gown on as-per normal testing criterion. She didn't know exactly what was going on at the time, but she didn't question it. A few of the officials from the PRT had come to apparently record her powers and observe the attributes of said powers. She didn't understand what that meant, but she was willing to do whatever as long as she had some water. It was provided, thankfully.

"Thanks for coming, Miss Banks. There's no wrong answers here, so don't be nervous," a woman in a lab coat and a friendly smile said as she came over. "I'm Alina Brestoff, and I'll be conducting this exam. We want to help you get a better understanding of your abilities, alright?"

[color=fbec5d]"Okay!"[/color] Kendall cheerfully says as she sits in her seat, looking up at the new woman in the room. The friendly smile was definitely something that helped her feel welcome. [color=fbec5d]"Has anyone told you that you're pretty?"[/color] The smile sold the prettiness to Kendall, if she was honest.

"Not during an examination, but I've heard it before. But thank you. The compliment is appreciated." Brestoff made a few marks on the clipboard she carried, glancing back at the door. "Think you're ready?"

[color=fbec5d]"Yes ma'am!"[/color] Kendall said as a small slice of her hair turned into tar. The slice quickly reverted back to her hair as she acted like nothing happened.

"Was that intentional?" Brestoff asked with a smile. "I hope you won't hate me for all the questions I'm about to send your way."

[color=fbec5d]"I won't, but was what intentional?"[/color] Kendall tilted her head as she looked at Brestoff.

"The small transformation of your hair just a moment ago, dear."

Kendall shrugs as she sits there. [color=fbec5d]"I think that just happens sometimes before I transform my body, that's all."[/color]

"Interesting. Can you do a full body transformation?" Brestoff asked as she motioned for Kendall to follow her into the wide, open room that would serve as the training area.

Kendall nods before walking over and standing in the wider space. Her entire body melts down into a puddle of black tar with a ruby shine, the puddle spreading out on the floor as a small tentacle rises from the tar. It looks like it is giving a thumbs-up.

"Well done. Now, can you still understand everything I'm saying?"

Kendall's upper body reforms out of the tarry mass, looking at Brestoff. [color=fbec5d]"It's like you're speaking through radio static, but yep!"[/color] Kendall's hospital gown is visibly the same at her shoulders, but it does turn into tar as it approaches below her chest.

Brestoff nods. "And how thin can you make yourself? Can you move in this blob form?"

Kendall gives a quick nod as the tarry mass engulfs her again, moving fluidly through the environment as it weaves around the area. It stops to try and stretch vertically before it gives out at about 4 inches in diameter.

Brestoff watches avidly throughout the display, making notes as she goes. "Why don't you try to describe everything you're able to do?"

Kendall reforms into her normal body, slightly tilted as her left arm and left leg are switched. [color=fbec5d]"I can turn whatever body part I want into this... tarry mass... it regenerates when I'm hurt a lot, and... I think there's one more thing about it but I don't know if I ca-"[/color] Kendall notices her arm and leg and blush hard. [color=fbec5d]"U-um... whoops, heh-heh..."[/color]

"It's quite alright, dear. What were you saying?"

[color=fbec5d]"I-It's really hard to explain,"[/color] Kendall says as her arm and leg turn into tar, fixing positions before she returns to talking. [color=fbec5d]"I guess I can demonstrate it... but I need someone to do it with..."[/color]

"Mhmm. Well, we have some rats we use for some of the Master tests... Let me just..."

After a few moments she came back, carrying a cage with a plain brown rat inside it. "I don't need to let it out, do I? I hate these things."

[color=fbec5d]"No you don't..."[/color] Kendall walks over to the cage and sits down in front of it. Her face falls into a slight frown as she closes her eyes, a tentacle grabbing the rat and lifting it up with a firm, but not harmful, grip. [color=fbec5d]"S-sorry..."[/color] Kendall mutters as her other hand contorts into another tentacle, stuffing itself into the mouth of the rat and filling it up with tar.

It is placed back down as Kendall stands back up, her left hand reforming and with a lack of all five fingers. Still with her eyes closed, Kendall speaks. [color=fbec5d]"T-the rat..."[/color]

Observing the rat would prove it is now moving in ways that it normally would not do. Instead of scurrying around the cage frantically, it is now slowly trotting backwards in the cage, its mouth leaking black tar and its eyes dilated beyond belief.

"Mhmm. That's interesting. Do you control it directly, or did you implant a command?" Brestoff appeared nothing if not interested in the ability.

[color=fbec5d]"I-it's a bit of both..."[/color] Kendall sheepishly admitted as the rat began to walk side to side, sometimes displaying pain with it's movements. Finally, the rat began to curl and contort before spewing the dark tar onto the floor of it's cage, Kendall's head buried into her lap. [color=fbec5d]"I-I don't like controlling animals..."[/color]

"Controlling anything is a weight that shouldn't be carried lightly," the examiner said quietly. "Do they always vomit the substance back up like that?"

Kendall nodded slowly before the rat seemingly went unconscious, furthering the guilt that Kendall had.  [color=fbec5d]"I think the tar is... indigestible. It makes you sick if it stays in too long..,"[/color]

Brestoff nodded again taking the small cage away.

"Moving on.... Are you able to regrow missing tar? Can you throw it? Can you produce more?"

Kendall nods as she throws her arm towards the wall, the entire hand being flung as a ball of tar that splatters against the same wall. [color=fbec5d]"I can regrow missing tar and produce more, but it’s really specific. There was one time I can think of that caused it immediately."[/color]

"Is that something you're able to talk about, or would you prefer not to go into details?"

Kendall looks at Brestoff as the tar from the wall slinks back to her stumped arm. [color=fb3c5d]“I can explain, but it’s reeeally really complicated,”[/color] Kendall says as she begins walking around in a circle. [color=fbec5d]"My arm got caught in a tough spot a few months after my power came to me. It was too tough for me to just... tar my way out of, so I broke free from my arm. It began to regrow as soon as I noticed my arm was gone, and it grew actually pretty fast."[/color]

"That sounds pretty terrible, if I'm being honest. Do you still feel in the altered state?"

[color=fbec5d]"It’s... fuzzy. I can still... feel the arm, but it doesn’t exactly feel like anything is there. Radio static,"[/color] Kendall reused the term, as if she lacked any easy way to describe it. [color=fbec5d]"It grew back, and the tar stayed where it was where my arm detached."[/color]

"Can you grow more by will or is it only during that automation regeneration state?"

[color=fbec5d]"Latter."[/color] Kendall was brutally honest. [color=fbec5d]"I tried it later with my dad. There were a few gallon bags used, but we did find a way to store it in our freezer. The leftovers didn’t want to come back, so we just kept it if I needed it."[/color]

"Didn't want to come back?"

Kendall points at the tar that is currently slinking up her leg. [color=fbec5d]"This isn’t me doing this."[/color]

"So it automatically returns to the source. Interesting. And the other samples didn't. Could you merge with them manually?"

[color=fbec5d]"Yes ma'am. It’s a lot more... uncomfortable to fuse with the gallon bags though."[/color] Kendall’s hand turns into tar as it takes the shape of a standard hand. [color=fbec5d]"It’s like taking a shower, but it’s not the nice clean shower. It’s like a cold, sticky, awful shower. I don’t like to do it unless I have to."[/color]

"Mhmm. I can imagine it's unpleasant. Anything else you can think of that's.... Different?"

[color=fbec5d]"No ma'am,"[/color] Kendall hesitantly says. She took a moment to think of mentioning the form shifting but she didn’t want to mention it. That’d be her little secret.

Unknowingly, Kendall starts to drift closer to Brestoff very slowly.

"Mhmmm. We could perform some stress tests to see what the Limits of your form is, but I think I've got enough to go off of with this." Brestoff nodded to herself, smiling. "Yes, I think that's enough. Thanks for coming in today, Miss Banks. I hope it wasn't too terrible," she said with a small wink.

Kendall wraps her arms around Brestoff and pulls into a hug. [color=fbec5d]"It wasn’t! I’m glad I could be of help!"[/color] Reluctantly, the girl forces herself away from Brestoff as she wanders to the restrooms to go and change back into her normal clothes.