001 - First Article - Video (post-sirens)
[The brunette on the video sports quite a few cuts and bruises; it looks like someone didn’t take her first night out seriously enough. From the scene behind her, she’s in the shelter-dugout, for those who would recognize it.] Okay, newsflash of the hour: humans totally have parental instincts coded into them, and it sucks
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So when he actually heard her voice... He almost didn't believe it. And then she kept talking. Six words in, he knew he wasn't imagining it, and picked up his NV. The crystal came to life, flickering the video image on as the recording continued.
Lois.]
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When she says her name and he breaks into a smile, and then he tilts his head and listens; listens for her heartbeat, proves to himself that it's real. It's definitely her.]
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What if she was the Lois from Bruce's world, or worse? What if she was in love with some other Superman? What if she'd never met him? There's a thousand different horrible possibilities.]
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And pretending to himself that every minute spent deciding isn't agony. That he wants to know sooner and get it over with so that he doesn't have to worry about it any more. He pretends to himself that he doesn't want to pull her into his arms and protect her from the Darkness - even though he's listening intently for any sign of monsters going after her, or worse, her going after the monsters - and that it's okay to hold off while he gets his own racing heart under control.
More than that he needs to give her a chance to get her footing, ask some questions, prepare herself for the inevitable, before he goes rushing in and potentially explodes everything in her face.
Is it true? Does he really look different enough as Superman to fool her? He's honestly not sure he believes it. If anything it would be the ultimate ( ... )
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Welcome anyway Miss Lane, poor as our welcomes may be, to Siren's Port. I'm Dr. Daedalus Yumeno, and...I'm glad to see you're together in one piece, but you should take even that smallest injury out there seriously, and be sure to get cleaned off properly when possible.
As for "It Sucks", a biological predisposition towards child-attachment does ensure the survival of species. Unfortunately, certain creatures out there are known to bank on that as a weakness.
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Well, I guess I will follow doctor's orders, if you say that even small cuts are a thing. Why, does the Darkness get into the bloodstream or something?
...Do, uh, any more of them do that? Or is it just that kind of creepy small child-shaped creature?
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And...not the DDE itself so much as the things that dwell in it, potentially. With certain creatures- and broken skin always runs the risk of infection.
What you've encountered is probably a "Bitter Child". We have them listed in the Blue Binder here. The night clinic doctors hear a lot about what's what out there. You're lucky it wasn't the type that spits something particularly noxious.
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Yeah, I've had pretty notorious luck, as a rule. This Blue Binder--is it open to the general public? And it has information about what goes bump in the night?
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But you shouldn't be out at night if you just got here!
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And 'shouldn't' has never really been part of my vocabulary.
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Unless you've got some really heavy super power, it's a bad idea to go outside without getting used to this place first. Especially since there might be some Darkness parasite or something.
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All right then. So what about you? What would you say about this place?
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They were pretty determined to get blood samples.
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Okay. That... is a step up. I hold to my stance on horror movie screenings, though.
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[From her tone, that was not an acceptance. She doesn't trust the new person.]
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[Yeah...she's not going to tack on the "Wizard" part just yet. They can just be mutually suspicious for a while.]
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Nice of you to be willing to risk your neck for a stranger, though.
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