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[center][h2][color=gold]Hop, Skip, Jump - On the way to the office[/color][/h2][/center]

The painted red ceiling of his studio apartment stayed his beating heart when his eyes slammed open. Visions of his father's angry face are blotted out by the severe color above him. For a moment, he lies there, body crumbled up underneath a single sheet, left eye socket aching a phantom pain. His heart rate slowly falls, and he measures his breathing slowly. His cellmate, Dylan had taught him that. The ceiling was also his idea. 

Jet swings his socked feet over the side of the bed, and moves to the fridge. Pulling the door open, it falls off it's hinges. Same thing, different day. The watch on his wrist nearly makes him jump out of his skin. [color=mediumpurple]"Fuck- I gotta get an alarm clock or something."[/color]

A tall glass of orange juice and cinnamon sugar toast later, he's zipping up his suit, and feeding the goldfish Dylan pawned off on him. Next to the medium sized aquarium with "Ducky" in it, are his meds and his mp3 player. Slipping two into his mouth, he grabs his player and slides the buds into his ears. [url=https://youtu.be/ZsTOB0q-RbM?si=zvoTaXiPLG3gNAih]"♩ I've been sensin' something strange ♩"[/url]

Starting down the hill from work by who knows how far, he has to take a bit of a different strategy to get there than his usual fall flying. He jumps, adding a bit of gravitational kick to his shoes, and he's leaping from one wall to the other in an alley to get to the roof. Once his feet hit the top, he leans forward into a run, leaping at the edge of the building. 

One leap to another, one building to the next all the way to work. Never enough to truly exert him, but enough for a bit of a warm up on the way to the office. He times the gravitational bursts with every fourth snare hit, and it feels strangely like playing tennis. He supposes he's the ball in this case. At one point, he almost knocks some poor maintenance worker off the roof of an apartment building- [color=mediumpurple]"oh shit!"[/color] Then he's tumbling through the air off balance and away, so his sorry comes back to the man echoed and strained. A few blocks further and a 20 minute total commute, he lands in the parking lot. There's a bit of smashed glass in the parking lot but he hardly notices it in the first place.
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[center][h2][color=gold]Break Room - Claremont SDN[/color][/h2][/center]

When Jet makes it up to the break room, he's shuffling through the printed reports of yesterday's missions. His MP3 player might pretty souped up, but it's definitely not good enough to receive information other than the voice channel they've programmed into it. He'd have to thank their IT guy for that. 

He stumbles into the breakroom at some point after Tyler, taking notice of the two new faces. [color=mediumpurple]"Wow, they're really staffing Claremont up, I thought they'd leave us high and dry for awhile in moving people to the other branch. [/color]He pulls out a chair, turns it around, and sits with his arms resting on the back of it. His eyes catch on Blackstar's black on black detailed suit. [color=mediumpurple]"The black on black there is slick- I'm Asteroid, nice to meetcha."[/color] He gives her a bit of a head tilt and a wink, hoping for its sincerity to come through a bit better. If she's close enough, he offers a hand to shake.

[quote][color=fff200]"How are we all today?"[/color] [/quote]
[color=mediumpurple]"I'm alright, gotta stop on the way home for more fish flakes for Ducky though."[/color] After it comes out he grimaces a bit, realizing just how lame it makes him sound. Perfect ammunition for a bit of bullying, but hey whatever. He has a pet gold fish, sue him. 

[quote] [color=9e0b0f]“Sparky! I forgot to bring you back some Mamaki!”[/color] [/quote]
Fenom calling Lightning Girl 'Sparky' causes him to supress a laugh that comes out more like a snort. He holds his hands up immediately to hopefully portray surrender before someone lights him on fire. [color=mediumpurple]"What even is Mamaki?"[/color]