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Audrey felt Maren's hot touch again. It didn't scald her this time, because of her leather jacket, but when she felt it the second time, she knew she wasn't crazy. Maren's skin was almost too hot to touch, and that would seem impossible if not for what Audrey had already seen happen to Solomon. Would Maren flare up and fly away next? Audrey couldn't think of a way to warn her without sounding insane. This had something to do with the lights.

"Something weird is going on," she said, pulling away from Maren's grip as it became uncomfortable to maintain the contact. She looked down at her sleeve and then gestured for Maren to see it too, "Look, you're burning me." Indeed, there was a very much hand shaped mark on the shiny brown leather. Just slightly blackened, but enough to make it out.

Just then, someone else entered the room. Audrey recognized her from school years ago, but wasn't sure who she was. But that didn't matter, as she was the only other one here who cared about the flying blaze that was Solomon Majumdar.

"Yes!" Audrey stepped forward, ignoring her stumble on her mysteriously injured foot. "He- It came from the beach, did you see where it went?"

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There are a lot of us.

@malmshodes

I understand if you feel like you can't keep up, if you ever want to come back, let me know and I can see if you can be fit back in.

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Tragic Backstory™

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And we need to build the boat first, anyway.

I hope he figures his powers out before he goes home and sinks his dad's ship.

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Maren can swim nearby, or stand in a bucket of water or something.

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She's already a little homeless, but maybe she'll live on his boat with him.

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Careful now, or I might give you even worse powers. :P

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Yeah, I think so. I like the other idea, but I think it's got a similar theme to the one I gave Rhys, so hyper sensitive hearing is a nice new departure.

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Well her hottest is hot enough to light paper and dry leaves on fire. Paper ignites at about 480F. You can burn skin at about 176F, which is only about 80 degrees hotter than a normal human's body temperature(ha, "only"), and is about 300 less than her established high. So I think a waking range of 180-480(depending on the time of day) is reasonable.

Of course, I'm noting that I only mentioned her as being "impossible for others to touch during a certain part of the day," where this scale makes her impossible to touch basically all of the day. I think I'll scale it down a bit, but I'll let her burn Audrey just this once, to demonstrate her power.

Let's say she's ranging from 130(probably uncomfortably hot to touch for extended periods) to that same 480. And when she's asleep, she's closer to someone who just has a fever.

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Aud gave a short bark of laughter at Maren's comment. "Alright, point taken, smart ass."

Zoey met her with a level of snark that Audrey was used to. She didn't feel like dealing with that right now, so she shut it down quickly.

"I haven't seen either of them in two years, don't blame me for their shitty behavior.

"Have neither of you looked outside?" She crossed the room to Maren, and put a hand on her shoulder to try to coax her toward the window. She brought her hand back almost immediately, with a sharp intake of breath at the burn on her hand. As she stepped back from Maren, she gasped in pain again from the stabbing pain in her foot.

"Hell!" she breathed, looking at her hand and elevating her foot. Her hand was red, as if it had been scalded, and she could feel blood soaking her sock. She turned her eyes to her boot, but there wasn't any hole in the sole. What had she stepped on?