003 - post mortem

[mayitlastforeve]

[Action, outside 2238 Stevens Rd. Open.]

[After Naal's first nuclear apocalypse can only come one thing - Naal's first regain. Naal has received the impression that regains just kind of mysteriously happen overnight rather than coming in the mail, so she's quite surprised to find a package with her name on it. She used to get mail by courier or

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Action: 2238 Stevens

[after_thesky]

[Sarah Jane is somewhat surprised by the change, but it not particularly troubled by her new appearance]

Naal?

[mayitlastforeve]

[She looks pretty out of it; her breathing is ragged and her eyes are unfocused and seem to bright, as though glowing, though in the bright sunlight it's hard to be sure. It takes a few seconds before she answers.]

I'm... I'll be okay.

[after_thesky]

[Sarah Jane frowns. She doesn't sound fine.]

Do you need to go back inside?

[mayitlastforeve]

[Another pause and she straightens, the glow in her eyes receding.]

...no. It won't make a difference.

[after_thesky]

Is there anything that will help?

[mayitlastforeve]

It's just restless because I changed... it will pass. [For now.]

[after_thesky]

I... don't imagine this sort of transformation is terribly easy.

[mayitlastforeve]

It isn't. But this is what I am meant to be.

[after_thesky]

You must be glad to be feeling more yourself, then.

[mayitlastforeve]

[She feels very little. But as Sarah Jane says...] ...I must be.

[She fingers a long white strand of hair.] I need to do something my hair soon...

[after_thesky]

What do you normally do with it?

Sorry... I have a son at home, not a daughter. It's a bit different.

[mayitlastforeve]

I dye it black. I should at least cover it until I can...

...it's very different. [In so many ways. It would take so many words to even begin to outline...]

[after_thesky]

There's probably a hat in one of the closets somewhere. I think I saw the drone girl wear one now and then.

[mayitlastforeve]

Something longer would be better. [The hair goes well past her waist.] But thank you.

[after_thesky]

We'll figure something out, we just might have to improvise a bit.

[mayitlastforeve]

[She nods.]

...when you said you had a son, did you mean like this? Living together with one mate and raising your immediate children together?