Taban Macdougal had been in a nearby cafe at the time of the incident, sipping his mocha mocha, which was far below his standards, but the staff was attentive enough. He had been musing about the lack of action in this city famed for its budding superheroes and supervillains, yet nothing of terrific incidence had happened as he explored about. Today, was different, the mass pile-up had drawn his attention for a few short moments, and he calculated the pros and cons of aiding the people. Overall it would be too much effort, and hassle to deal with. Then a young girl wearing very punkish attire had come and began to systematically arrange the cars, moving them without even touching them, and had created a very neat orderly display, he had seen her before, apparently her power capacity was greater then initially projected
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Silvermane stared at the young dark-haired man for a moment. He projected confidence, to be sure, but she had no idea who he was.
"Um...w-what are you doing?" she said quietly. Not that she minded having an excuse to flee from the reporters, but it was still dishonest and he was a stranger. "And...um...well...who a-are you?"
((OOC: Going to treat it as though Taban and Terra arrived at least 5 minutes apart so we can have some separate interaction first.))
He lifted his hands stopping questions, much the way a conducter stops an orchestra. He turned to her and whispered.
"I'm simply helping out a beautiful young lady, as every gentleman should." Taban replied silkily making sure that he was speaking only to her. He gave her a sly smile before turning back to the reporters.
A few reporters attempted to get Silvermane to talk again, and attempted addressing questions, but Taban calmly answered all questions in a very reasonable manner, explaining what had happened, and asking that they respect his client's privacy, as a common courtesy, and that further pestering would in fact result in legal action in the form of harrassment.
Well, Silvermane had less of a problem with being passively dishonest rather than outright lying herself. She smiled a bit at the 'beautiful young lady' comment. Compliments were nice, even if there already was a person she was interested in.
"Y-you're really good at this," she whispered to him after a moment. "Are you in l-law school or something?"
He looked way too young to be a lawyer, but he was putting on a very convincing act.
Terra, meanwhile, had been lounging in the Tower when she had seen the live report of the disaster. She'd gotten out of there before she saw the person responsible for fixing it all, but still somehow managed to take a while to get to the scene.
Fortunately for her, since her powers weren't exactly conducive to the situation at hand, she found the entire fiasco taken care of when she arrived -- and hey, did she recognize that girl? She did! But she didn't quite approach Silvermane just yet, not knowing whether or not the girl liked interviews or not.
Instead, she stood off to the side, hopefully obvious enough for Silv to notice, but not quite close enough for the cameras to pick up on. And really, she didn't want any more publicity.
After Silvermane had thanked her pseudo lawyer for his timely assistance, she caught sight of Terra off to the side. The media was packing up and leaving, so she smiled directly at the blonde girl while still speaking with her "lawyer". She was fairly sure that if Terra wanted the media attention, she would have shown up in the center of the crowd.
Terra's smile had probably never been filled with more pride for someone else in her life.
"Hey, Silvermane," she started. "I saw the report and came as soon as I could. Was, uh... did you fix all this?" She thought she already knew the answer for that one, though.
Silvermane blushed a bit. "I'm a l-little tired now, but that was me, y-yes. I-it was just a matter of putting them all in neat rows and f-forcing people to wait their turn. Usually traffic jams are because somebody g-got impatient, right?"
Really, she was kind of overwhelmed by this whole heroism thing. Not so much the heroic act itself - in fact, she didn't really consider what she did heroic so much as just being kind.
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"Um...w-what are you doing?" she said quietly. Not that she minded having an excuse to flee from the reporters, but it was still dishonest and he was a stranger. "And...um...well...who a-are you?"
((OOC: Going to treat it as though Taban and Terra arrived at least 5 minutes apart so we can have some separate interaction first.))
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"I'm simply helping out a beautiful young lady, as every gentleman should." Taban replied silkily making sure that he was speaking only to her. He gave her a sly smile before turning back to the reporters.
A few reporters attempted to get Silvermane to talk again, and attempted addressing questions, but Taban calmly answered all questions in a very reasonable manner, explaining what had happened, and asking that they respect his client's privacy, as a common courtesy, and that further pestering would in fact result in legal action in the form of harrassment.
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"Y-you're really good at this," she whispered to him after a moment. "Are you in l-law school or something?"
He looked way too young to be a lawyer, but he was putting on a very convincing act.
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Fortunately for her, since her powers weren't exactly conducive to the situation at hand, she found the entire fiasco taken care of when she arrived -- and hey, did she recognize that girl? She did! But she didn't quite approach Silvermane just yet, not knowing whether or not the girl liked interviews or not.
Instead, she stood off to the side, hopefully obvious enough for Silv to notice, but not quite close enough for the cameras to pick up on. And really, she didn't want any more publicity.
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Excusing herself, she approached Terra.
"H-hi Terra," she said softly.
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"Hey, Silvermane," she started. "I saw the report and came as soon as I could. Was, uh... did you fix all this?" She thought she already knew the answer for that one, though.
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Really, she was kind of overwhelmed by this whole heroism thing. Not so much the heroic act itself - in fact, she didn't really consider what she did heroic so much as just being kind.
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