A Room at the Arms, Saturday night

[craftyladyparts]

Jessica wasn't feeling great. She'd spent days on a desperate search across dimensions, inventing on the fly, only to get her ass kicked all afternoon, have some life force drained, and lose an ally who was kind of a cross-dimensional brother. Ben Reilly had been through life as a clone and, apparently, had created a life for himself from that

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[peter__parker]

A knock came on the window before Peter crawled into the room. "Hey, Jess," he said, pulling his mask off. "Looks like we won."

[craftyladyparts]

"Feels like it was as close as possible," Jessica said. "She got Ben. The last thing he did was scan her. No body, though. Apparently clones in his world have a tendency to disintegrate. I kind of learned that once."

[peter__parker]

"Oh, jeez. At least she wasn't able to share him with the rest of her family," Peter said, climbing insid and taking off his mask. "You know, you don't look so good. You okay?"

[craftyladyparts]

"She drained me a little bit," Jessica said. "For like two seconds. But that's more than enough, because she followed it up by kicking my ass. I barely had the strength to make it across the causeway once it was clear she was blocked."

[notconflicted]

After cleaning herself up at the dorms, Sia made her way back into town and up to Jessica's room, where she knocked on the door. And sure, bruises were already springing up all over and everything was achy but at least she wouldn't have to answer 'what happened' questions.

[craftyladyparts]

"Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow," Jessica whined as she got up to get the door. As soon as she opened it, she was already moving back toward the bed. "Come in. Have a seat if you need it."

[notconflicted]

"I suppose that answers the question of how you're doing," Sia said, but she was immediately taking a seat on the edge of the bed when she got there because it was close and yes.

[craftyladyparts]

"Have you ever had life force drained out of you?" Jessica asked. It was a legitimate question. "If not, it sucks. I feel like I've been sleepwalking for hours. While getting the worst ass-kicking of my life. Are you okay, relatively speaking?"