[hr][center][h3][b][u][Castle on the Clouds][/u][/b][/h3][/center][hr]

[b][color=#f7e286]"Sure~!"[/color][/b] Dawn leaned casually on the table, with her chin in one hand slurping her concoction, noisily crunching ice, and picking at the inside of her nose with her pinky in a distinctly un-ladylike manner. She raised an eyebrow with interest at him as he twisted his limbs to and fro to reach at his back and do... something. The flexibility of those emitters certainly was a thing.

[b][color=#f7e286]"If ya don't hurry up I'm gonna need a refill,"[/color][/b] she quipped into the pause between his ramblings, rattling the ice in her cup for emphasis and then taking a moment to top it off with the rest of her flask. Her eyes shimmered with iridescence as she regarded him for a moment and seemed to think about his follow up question. [b][color=#f7e286]"All light, I suppose. Disguise? Shoore. But... why make a disguise when we can just stand in the part of light people can't see?"[/color][/b]

[b][color=#f7e286]"If we do your... zippity-zoop thingy, you're gonna land all pukey and useless right? Unless you change a bunch of stuff or go running back to your lab? Listen, I'm not a rocket-doctor or anything, but I know a few things about *[i]urp-[/i]* light... might be helpful."[/color][/b]

[b][color=#f7e286]"You know about wave-particle duality right?"[/color][/b] she asked, with a bored tone, reaching out from under the umbrella for a moment an grasping nothing with two fingers. The ray of morning sunlight bent unnaturally and illuminated the whole table underneath their umbrella. She spread her fingers and the ray split into the visible spectrum as though it had been refracted through a prism. She turned her hand and it split again through the non-visible spectrum. She slurped at her drink. [b][color=#f7e286]"You know, that thing that makes it be both a particle and a wave at the same time? Doesn't take into account the secret [i]third[/i] state of light. It's everything you can see, a lot of things you can't, and a portion of what you can [i]feel[/i]. Moreso in your case I think,"[/color][/b] she explained cryptically.

[b][color=#f7e286]"Can I make a guess?"[/color][/b] She grinned. The table went dark as the bent ray snapped back to its natural position, leaving a glowing mote in her fingers which she pressed to the middle of the table. It rose and floated lazily like it had its own gravity. To him, the table was painted in non-visible information, geometric shapes, arrays of concentric circles and text in Greek, all pulsing with energy like electricity as it held the miniature sun in place. [b][color=#f7e286]"So *[i]slurp[/i]* to do your zippity-zoop thing right... you do a bunch of maths, calculate a bunch of varibibbles, feed it into your techno-fangled computer-majig and then,"[/color][/b] she ran her fingers across the table, fluttering a whistle. The array expanded, spilling onto the ground and encompassing them.

[b][color=#f7e286]"That sure does sound like lots of work when you could just... hitch a ride to where it's already going,"[/color][/b] she grunted, leaning back in her chair and fishing around in her purse for her Slatephone. She was absorbed in it for a minute or two as she quickly searched up some information on a map application. She waved it lazily over the payment terminal at the side of the table and it chirped as she got up. Dawn twirled with a lazy flourish, careful to keep her drink level as she interlaced her fingers with his and hoisted him out of his seat with a smirk.

[b][color=#f7e286]"I haven't done this in a while,"[/color][/b] Dawn whispered into his ear playfully as she pulled him into her personal space. [b][color=#f7e286]"So relax and don't think too hard, you'll mess me up,"[/color][/b] Dawn instructed, and then fell backwards towards the transparisteel with him in tow.

The globe of light on their table rose up and flared, spitting a ray like a pulsar ejection, that swept them up right as they were about to hit the glass. For a moment they were falling forever, swaddled in golden light, pushed gently by some impossible force. Inertia, friction, solidity ceased to apply as they were shot through the glass. The urban crush of the plate surface rushed up to meet them, and they were gently alighted on a rooftop near the edge of Justice Square in a ray of radiance.

Physics resumed.

A blast of wind nearly bowled her over and she squeaked and laughed, using him to hold herself up until she found her feet, and then lowered herself on to the edge of an air conditioning unit. She sputtered hair out of her mouth and dug in her purse clumsily for sunglasses.

[b][color=#f7e286]"I missed a little. Refracted out of that cloud, but at least we didn't land in that news chopper! Small victories,"[/color][/b] she swirled her cup noisily. [b][color=#f7e286]"You schtill want that tattoo? I bet I can make it permantent."[/color][/b]