[center][h2][b][i][color=00ffff]Victoria[/color][/i][/b][/h2][/center][hr][center][color=00ffff][b]Location:[/b][/color] Kingston-Gray estate > Grandstands
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[color=00ffff][b]Equipment:[/b][/color] N/A[/center][hr]The talk with Sabine earlier went differently that Tori expected. Before she could get a word in, Sabine came with a wish slash instruction from the Kingston-Grays to not blab about what she saw in Casper's mind. Victoria could readily agree to that - To be frank, she found the memory quite unremarkable. Casper has obviously gotten better and could help provide a good home for two of her friends, so props to him. What came before then was not of interest, and even if it was, Victoria never had the intention of sharing that with anyone.

The interesting conversation happened afterwards. Once the news of Victoria's overhearing of Sabine's thoughts and it cutting off shortly after Sabine went to talk with the masters of the house was floated around, the duo experimented with it shortly. Vicky found it highly ironic that a mutant family was so liberal with issuing power dampeners, but once said dampener was removed, the intrusive thoughts came back. Moreover, they apparently transmitted in both directions.

In the end, there wasn't that much time to study their new... ability, Tori guessed, in detail. Victoria promised to try not to think too distracting thoughts during Sabine's matches, but she did express a want to meet later to see how this new connection they gained could be controlled and utilized. Or, heck, how or [b]why[/b] it even worked. Was Sabine unknowingly doing this, or was Vicky now a psion, albeit very, very selective? If they could understand and develop this unexpected gift... That gave Victoria ideas regarding it's use. 

In the meantime though, she was stuck here in the grandstands, watching the circus, because... She didn't know. She had no interest in the contest, other than perhaps cheering Leah on. She was still on the fence about cheering for her sister - not that the Young Avengers apparently needed much support, although she supposed showing up in an YA t-shirt and baseball cap would have been a nice way to troll her classmates. Thinking of her sister brought another unpleasant thought to the foreground. Their mother was either a no-show, she took steps to steer well clear of Victoria... or Victoria overdid it with the counter-admin macro and made herself completely unable to perceive her instead of simply censoring any verbal or nonverbal communication her system could interpret as an order. Although she liked to think she could code such a simple thing well enough.

So, ASTRA did what ASTRA does - Used the time to catalogue the people and powers on display, expanding her threat library more in one day than in the entire year prior. The whole Leah's dad situation was ever present in the corner of her mind - supposedly it was some kind of a hoax, but if the man intended to fuck about, well... there was enough distractions here to perhaps pull something off, so she kept her eye on the bushy-haired woman when she could.

Speaking of, the MCI team has filed into the field again, and Tori tried to tell her mind to not think at lightyear per second speeds. Gideon's loud screech made her think about expanding her people-ignoring macro by a few non-admin names.

[i][color=00ffff]"Focus. Your team is cobbled together from the remnants of three others, the Hack girls have advantage on their side due to synergy alone."[/color][/i] she thought back to Sabine as the fight was beginning. Okay, maybe there were two more people she respected enough to root for. [i][color=00ffff]"You can marvel at the nuances of the fight after you're done sending them home crying!"[/color][/i]

She did chuckle when Leah ripped the Hex girl's little telekinetic cage into pathetic wreckage, though.