Man, this went on tangents. I'm so sorry if you wanted actual action, too!
Sky's aura had changed in the three years they were at SPD together. The first time he had met Sky, it was a dark blue with sick yellow sparks of annoyance. The annoyance may have had something to do with a new roommate after Dru left. A new roommate who may or may not have exploded a certain amount of dairy spread goodness over his bed.
The dark blue had slowly gotten lighter as the months passed. It wasn't without its setbacks, of course. There had been one unfortunate incident with Boom and Sky getting stuck together in a very small closet for three hours before anyone noticed their lack of presence. Sky's aura nearly went black for an entire fortnight. Bridge didn't mention that incident under pain of partial dismemberment. At least to Sky. Syd had provided him with freshly buttered, perfectly cooked toast for six weeks after he let the juicier details slip.
It wasn't until after Jack and Z and even Sam had joined their team that he learned exactly what this meant.
The few books he'd found on aura reading that didn't dismiss it as a fantasy had given him little in the way of figuring out what all the colours and tastes and sensations really meant in practice. The one informative book he'd found had skerricks of truth mixed in with blatant falsehoods. Careful scientific testing with impartial subjects (namely Derek, Amasis and D'Hi'Cul of D-Squad) had eliminated the majority of these truths from the lies or exaggerations. One that he couldn't test no matter how hard he wanted to was the subject of this book's foreword - that aura reading of any given individual differed from reader to reader. Most of the energy surrounding one person was effected their feelings towards the reader.
And so he took Sky's lightening up as Sky...generally lightening up.
But then he watched Z's dark brown-yellow of their first meeting fade to the bright sunlight of today, and Syd's medium pink become absolutely florescent. He thought it was unrelated to walking in on the girls sneaking away after training sessions and then coming back with clothes even more mussed than when they left. And then Jack met Ally. And his dark dark crimson become a brilliant red closer to his uniform. And Bridge thought he started to understand.
Light meant love.
Sky was in love.
Process of elimination, along with his thorough documentation, pointed to himself or Syd, since this lightening of his aura had started far before Jack and Z entered their lives. And since Sky hadn't shown much negative emotion when Syd and Z started their thing, it pointed to Bridge.
And now that he'd figured it out, he didn't know what to do with it.
Sky's aura had changed in the three years they were at SPD together. The first time he had met Sky, it was a dark blue with sick yellow sparks of annoyance. The annoyance may have had something to do with a new roommate after Dru left. A new roommate who may or may not have exploded a certain amount of dairy spread goodness over his bed.
The dark blue had slowly gotten lighter as the months passed. It wasn't without its setbacks, of course. There had been one unfortunate incident with Boom and Sky getting stuck together in a very small closet for three hours before anyone noticed their lack of presence. Sky's aura nearly went black for an entire fortnight. Bridge didn't mention that incident under pain of partial dismemberment. At least to Sky. Syd had provided him with freshly buttered, perfectly cooked toast for six weeks after he let the juicier details slip.
It wasn't until after Jack and Z and even Sam had joined their team that he learned exactly what this meant.
The few books he'd found on aura reading that didn't dismiss it as a fantasy had given him little in the way of figuring out what all the colours and tastes and sensations really meant in practice. The one informative book he'd found had skerricks of truth mixed in with blatant falsehoods. Careful scientific testing with impartial subjects (namely Derek, Amasis and D'Hi'Cul of D-Squad) had eliminated the majority of these truths from the lies or exaggerations. One that he couldn't test no matter how hard he wanted to was the subject of this book's foreword - that aura reading of any given individual differed from reader to reader. Most of the energy surrounding one person was effected their feelings towards the reader.
And so he took Sky's lightening up as Sky...generally lightening up.
But then he watched Z's dark brown-yellow of their first meeting fade to the bright sunlight of today, and Syd's medium pink become absolutely florescent. He thought it was unrelated to walking in on the girls sneaking away after training sessions and then coming back with clothes even more mussed than when they left. And then Jack met Ally. And his dark dark crimson become a brilliant red closer to his uniform. And Bridge thought he started to understand.
Light meant love.
Sky was in love.
Process of elimination, along with his thorough documentation, pointed to himself or Syd, since this lightening of his aura had started far before Jack and Z entered their lives. And since Sky hadn't shown much negative emotion when Syd and Z started their thing, it pointed to Bridge.
And now that he'd figured it out, he didn't know what to do with it.
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