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Epic City: Starburst

@Old AmsterdamNo for me as well on the roll call :)

Epic City: Starburst

Teagan listened carefully. Alex might have been young, but she possessed a depth Teagan quite admired. Not that it was rare for young people today to be insightful and with wisdom well beyond their age. It's just that more often than not they allowed themselves to coast downstream, rather than paddle and steer their boat. But the path of least resistance was a path in its own right she supposed.

A slow, soft smile stretched Teagan's lips. She was glad she didn't leave when she was about to. She observed Alex growing distant for a moment. A sigh. And then in a flurry of motion she was facing Teagan smiling that devilish smile of hers, extending her hand in invitation.

Teagan's smile broadened, showing off her dimples. "Well..." She locked eyes with Alex's, taking the offered hand. "Generally I'm the one leading..." Her smile became crooked. "But I'm also flexible." She winked. "Lead on, m'lady!"
@Old Amsterdam

Epic City: Starburst

@Athoriel Well... We sure did pile on you... No stripping yet, though :D

Epic City: Starburst

Teagan relaxed as the young woman acknowledged her with a quick wink and almost immediately started circling her as if assessing her pray. Teagan allowed the scrutiny. She frowned slightly, though, at the woman's almost nonchalant accounting of her kidnapping and the resulting deafness. She didn't like how young people got so jaded so quickly nowadays. Maybe it was the world they lived in. For herself she always tried to keep even a fraction of whimsy. She found out it helped her counterbalance the heavy burdens. Rather than rely on sarcasm and snark. But different people responded to the world in a multitude of ways. And everyone was free to find what worked for them.

When ray of sunshine, or rather Alex, stopped in front of her and quickly dispensed with Teagan's mock protocol introductions, the smokejumper couldn't help but grin, flashing her dimples. She was about to say something when two fingers sealed her lips. Teagan froze cough off guard. Her eyes locked on the fingers, than flickered to Alex's eyes. Oh, she could see the devilish glint in them. And, damn, if she wasn't tempted to do something outrages, but however beautiful the young woman was, she still looked twice Teagan's junior and she just didn't do that. But, hey, nothing wrong in making new friends. And she kinda liked Alex. She appeared quite the proper young lady on the outside. But Teagan sensed something underneath. Something interesting. This'll be fun. She thought.

When her lips were free to form words again, she smiled and assure. "Nothing to reopen. Just a scrape. But I appreciate your concern." Alex's eyes jumped for a second towards where Teagan'd left Stark Crusader. Her own eyes followed and she chuckled when she saw the female looking Epic who'd spoken with Dragon Heart waving at the disheveled young man from outside the second-floor window.

She returned her gaze to Alex when the young woman fired a salvo of questions at her. She grinned. Oh, that one's a little devil, no doubt! "Well..." Teagan started to answer. "Since I was born before the Starburst, I think I have a different perspective. True, I was only a wee girl before the Epics and the Freaks and the mutated animals, but still..."

Teagan ran a finger over the scar bisecting her lower lip as was her habit when she was thinking something over. "I knew the world before and after in a way." She paused again, considering which question to approach first. "I've spent the better portion of my adult life jumpin' in forest fires and let me tell ye. No villainous Epics were necessary to destroy what nature had created for us. Just someone's carelessness." Teagan felt herself slipping into her Smokey Bear spiel and made a conscious effort to stop. "Epics, Freaks, Normals... We're all just people. We're fickle creatures. So if two Epics decide to duke it out in the middle of Epic City, or if a careless person started a forest fire, there's not much of a deference, is there? We are what we are, and it's up to us to change if we so desire or continue down the same path if we like where it leads to."

Teagan grabbed a glass of water from a passing waiter. Sipped and continued. "My job doesn't change much. There'll always be people in need of help. And I like helping people. So if I can, I'll try to help." Teagan favored Alex with a soft smirk, her dimples barely visible. "Do I wish for powers, ye ask? I mean what kid hasn't whish for that at some point in their life. I s'ppose I was no different. I remember wishin' I was able to pop buck naked in me parent's bedroom at night." Teagan laughed at her own childish antics. "But than again I didn't really need special power for that. I just had to strip down and burst in their bedroom while they slept." Teagan allowed her eyes to stray from her conversation companion to encompass the crowd of people. "I'm afraid ye'll find no polarizin' opinions in me, Alex. We are all here on this Earth. Epics, Freaks, Normals, animals, plants together. We live as best we can and then we return to whence we came from. I could share my philosophical and spiritual views with ye, but I fear I'll bore ye even more and I'd rather not." Teagan winked at her.
@Old Amsterdam

Epic City: Starburst

@Old AmsterdamWell.. We'll just have to see, won't we

Epic City: Starburst

Teagan navigated the crowd. She'd thought she would stand out like a sore thumb with her preferred formal wear. But as it turned out not too few people were decked out in frocks and some such extravagant outfits.
Well, not like I came here with the need to impress. She thought to herself and scanned the crowd for the Chief. She quickly located him, surrounded by people and decided against joining in the fray.
She looked around, wondering if she should stay, or just go home, when her eyes landed on the ray of sunshine from before. She was wearing a glorious sun dress and even though she looked like she belonged among the rich and powerful, she also appeared to be bored to tears.
Teagan hesitated.
Ah, what the hell! She thought. I can't stand a lady in distress. Or boredom. And strode slowly but gingerly towards the ray of sunshine as she'd taken to calling the young woman. There was something odd about her though. As she was scanning the crowd in obvious boredom. She appeared to pay special attention to people's lips. Teagan wouldn't have notice it, if it wasn't for Megan.
She remembered fondly the young girl she'd rescued from a forest fire back when she was still a rookie smokejumper. The girl'd managed to escape the ordeal relatively unscathed thanks to Teagan who'd suffered some heavy burns. Megan was quickly discharged from the hospital, but kept coming back to visit Teagan. It turned out she was deaf-mute and got lost prior to the fire and couldn't be found before the area was evacuated. During Teagan's stay in the hospital and Megan's regular visits, she'd grown accustomed to the girl’s constant attention to her lips. Since Megan was born deaf-mute, she'd learned to read lips and sign at a very young age.
So when she noticed ray of sunshine's attention to people's lips, she assumed a similar circumstance. Or, she could be reading lips to simply spy on people. Teagan thought with a grin. To each their own, she guessed. Either way... the young lady looked bored, and Teagan couldn't stand for that. Even if she made an ass of herself, at least she would've tried to chase her boredom away.
She slowly and deliberately entered the young woman's line of sight.
Hello. She signed. Couldn't help but notice you reading lips. I hope I'm not too presumptuous in assuming you're deaf? She finished. She was confident in her signing. Megan'd thought her well. But when the woman remained unresponsive Teagan faltered.
"Um..." She spoke out loud. "Sorry, didn' mean to presume ye knew sign language." She apologized, noticing immediately the woman's eyes flickering to her lips. Okay, well, at least it looks like the deaf assumption wasn't wrong. "Pardon me for intrudin’. I was just about to leave when I saw ye lookin’ quite honestly bored to tears and simply had to intervene."
The young woman favored her with a bored expression.
A challenge then! Teagan grinned. "Allow me to introduce myself." She clicked her rider's boots, made a fist with her right hand, placed her hand on her stomach and bent slightly over it, wincing when her shoulder scrape reminded of itself annoyingly. "Teagan Hayes." She straightened. "If I may be so bold as to offer you my humble company for your entertainment." Teagan looked the young woman expectantly.
@Old Amsterdam

Epic City: Starburst

@Regitnui I'm getting the feeling that within this epic/freaky environment we'll be trying, invanly most of the time, to impress each other anyway we can think of And you young ladies can rest assured... Teagan is a perfect gentlewoman and also not one for cradle-robbing :P Regardless of gender Mostly she's just a goof

For reference...

This is the accent I'm kinda going for

@Regitnui@Old Amsterdam Just threw an NPC out there /Megan/. If you'd like to use her in the future... I could flesh her out. She'd be in her late teens by now... I'm thinking artist of some sort :)

Epic City: Starburst

@Old Amsterdam Well, then... I guess we'll just have to impress with demeanour Let me get some work done and I'll be by to make a spectacle of myself... I mean, we can't very well have a lady bored to tears now, can we :D

Epic City: Starburst

@Old Amsterdam Alex looks so bored it's almost painful to watch Is she in one of her sun dresses? Teagan might decide to rescue the damsel in boredom

Also... Young people today are so jaded... Isn't a woman in a frock getup not interesting... Even a lil' bit? *wilt*

Epic City: Starburst

@Old Amsterdam That little Puck

Oh, man! I'm gonna keep forgetting to stay consistent with the written representation of Teagan's mild Irish accent >.<