[NT] - Revel

[shaman_x]

[Open to everyone!]

Turn the right way down any street, glance down an unexpected alley, maybe you'll see it out of the corner of your eye. Maybe you'll catch a hint of the music drifting out of the invitingly open wooden doors. There's always something. It wants to be found, this in, this bar, this club, this pub, this restaurant. It has many

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[daughter_of_m]

Mike promised her GIFTS. Ordinarily she would not come to such a SHIFTY place (people here? At this place? People DIE here!! Or they are waiting for DEAD PEOPLE here!! It is TRUE. Wanda knows. Wanda knows stuff TOO Layla Miller --- where do you think you learned it little girl?! Huh?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Wanda Maximoff knows STUFF.

And the stuff she knows is this interdimensional tavern is SHIFTY. Just because it's DC and she's Marvel doesn't mean she doesn't know! She is THE SCARLET WITCH, people. Okay?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Anyway.)

Mike promised her GIFTS. So. She's here. In RED --

-- and she is ready to party!!!!!!!!!

....Just so long as there are GIFTS.

[tm_magik]

"Wanda!"

Oh, here's JUST what people should want: unstable teenage witches drinking rum and eggnog.

[daughter_of_m]

"ZOMG!!! Illyana!!!"

Yes, Wanda is completely capable of saying ZOMG out loud. And not in IM (eye-em) in proper English.

"I haven't seen you in AAAAAAAAAGGGGGEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!! ZOMG --"

(Zoh-MAH-GAH)

"--how ARE you?"

[tm_magik]

Of course Zoh-MAH-GAH is a word.

"Busy."

Yeah, you could say that.

"You look so pretty! How are you?!"

[daughter_of_m]

"I know!!" Of course she's pretty!! She's totally the prettiest!!!

Oh --

"And so do YOU!!" She grabs the other girls hands and twirls her around.

"I'm super duper stuPENdous!!!!"

She stops suddenly.

"Mostly."

[tm_magik]

Illyana smiles, keeping her lips closed over her teeth.

"Mostly? Do you like this time of year or hate it? I find it is usually one or the other. I do worse in summer, so I like tonight but I hate it, too. It means the sun is coming back."

[daughter_of_m]

"Love!!! LOVE!!!! Lovelovelovelovelovelove!!"

More twirling.

"I was born in winter. In snow. On a mountain. Snow."

She lowers her voice to a whisper.

"It's in my blood."

A glance, she realises what was said.

"How come you don't like the SUN?"

[tm_magik]

"I do better in the dark," Illyana says with a shrug. "And I LOVE the snow! It is like home." She smiles wistfully. "Piotr called me Snowflake."

She looks around. "Can we drink? Will the robot say no?"

[daughter_of_m]

Silly Illyana!! It's Wanda -- she always gets what she wants, drinks from robots included.

Actually, drinks from robots ESPECIALLY. She nod nod nods.

"C'mon!!"

And drags her friend to the bar.

"Two for me and Snowflake!"

[tm_magik]

Somewhere, the Watcher or some other Cosmic Dude is shaking his head and hiding his face.

"Vodka!" Illyana demands. What? She's Russian.

"Sooo... you have a boyfriend? I have not seen you with my eyes in so long!"

[daughter_of_m]

"Me too!!" What? She's near-Russian.

"No." She pouts. Prettily. "Peoples are like .... afraid of me and stuff."

POUT.

[tm_magik]

Illyana nods and downs a shot with barely a grimace. "Me too," she says, and sighs.

"Boys are stupid anyway. They are so obsessed with ruling over things. Like having a penis makes you king of the world." She snorts. "Puh-leeze."

[daughter_of_m]

"True THAT, Snowflake."

Yes, she has appropriated Piotr's pet name. She likes it. It fits. Okay?

Okay.

"Plus, girls are prettier."

She waggles her eyebrows at Illyana.

[tm_magik]

Second shot, and Illyana laughs.

"So true," she muses. She starts to giggle, hiding her teeth with one hand. "I should turn ALL boys into girls for a day! Wouldn't THAT be good?" She shakes her head. "But I cannot. I bet you could. But why waste the energy?"

[daughter_of_m]

"OOh!! OoohhhHH!!"

Wanda jumps up, waving her hand as if in a classroom.

"I did once! I DID!!!"

She grins.

"I can again. Any time you want."

Anything for you, Illyana!! It's so nice to have a friend.

[tm_magik]

Illyana grins. "Thank you, Wanda. That is very sweet of you. But I do not suppose many of them would actually learn anything. People never learn." She sighs and signals the Doombot for more vodka.