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[cuteandsomodest]

Marco looks pretty frazzled when he gets to the Nexus. He's walked rather than morph, given how incredibly unpleasant the last morph was. He's nearly out of breath when he gets there

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[victormakesart]

"Golly." It's an out-of-costume Victor, now, messy hair smushed under a bowler cap, in a loose, untucked blue suit-shirt in August and jeans that need to be held up by rope, looped like suspenders, crossed behind her back and tied around her beltloops. She's pale, with the start of a scar visible on her neck, and a pretty big scar on her right palm, scootching across her fingers. "I think there's gotta be a box for that, somewhere. And... I probably shouldn't say, for that second bit. I could tell stories."

[cuteandsomodest]

Marco recognizes her with an easy smile. "I bet you could. I can too, at this point. I've been nearly chewed in half twice."

[victormakesart]

She would be so distressed if she knew she was recognized that easily! She works quite hard at being distinctly different, even down to body-language. Her fingers twitch. "That's zero fun. Less than zero fun. Negative fun. Uh. But. On the funny side of almost bein' ingested, I once got picked up by a monster, and I explained carefully that I'd be unpleasant to digest because I have an endoskeleton. It, uh. Said something back. That sounded like: 'Afiiiiguuurgggleaaarrrrg'."

[cuteandsomodest]

He'd recognized her voice. Marco's an exceptionally perceptive - and paranoid - kid, and so much time spent in recognizing his teammates from thought-speak alone has made him very good with voices.

He laughs. "Is that monster for "waiter, there's an endoskeleton in my meal"?"

[victormakesart]

She even works with her vocal patterns, her speech speed, her accent... but maybe she needs to resort to writing. Or sign-language. But does it matter, in the Nexus? She straightens her cuffs. "I got it translated later. That's exactly what it was."

[cuteandsomodest]

"Where exactly did you find a person-eating-monster to english dictionary?"

[victormakesart]

"Libraries. They're so useful."

[cuteandsomodest]

"Maybe I should check out the local library for all my translating monster-garble needs, then. I'm sure it's right with everything else in the Dewey Decimal system."

It's relaxing, being able to joke with people. Jake's gotten so serious lately and he's not always sure with Rachel. Marco decides he likes this Victor girl.

[victormakesart]

"As well you should. Dictionaries are like candybowls, but full of words." She nods her head solemnly, fingers stretching out.

[cuteandsomodest]

"You know what else is full of words? TV. And it's full of action, drama and beautiful women, too. I'll take my learning from good old NBC."

[victormakesart]

"Psh, girls. They have cooties. Except for, like, three of them. That's a fact proven by science."

[cuteandsomodest]

"Yeah, but they're delicious cooties full of romance and cool-points." As if Marco would know.

[victormakesart]

"Yuck, man. That's some serious ick-factor you're yappin' about right now."

[cuteandsomodest]

"Hey, don't knock it till you try it." Marco has not tried it. Marco will not try it until he is well over old enough to drive. Such is the plight of the short kid with the responsible-looking best friend.

[victormakesart]

"Uhhhh." She did try it. Not on purpose. A girl stormed up to her once, kissed her, then slapped her, then stormed off again, all stompy and angry. To this day, she has no idea what she did wrong (but oh heavens the germs). "I will knock everything before I try it. Otherwise, how do you know if the door is a real door and not a prop door? That could lead to an embarrassing error in judgement."

[cuteandsomodest]

"Wouldn't you find out if it's a prop door or real door by turning the knob? You could have a prop door with nothing behind it that doesn't open. Not that you can't have embarrassing errors in judgment just walking into real doors, if you know what I mean."