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[jonathanparagon]

Should anyone come out to the lake area, there's a young man sitting on the grass, muttering and paging through a thick old book.

A young man with Sime tentacles on each arm, clearly visible as his sleeves are rolled up.

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[stilljustandrew]

Are you ever gonna go back to baseline human?

*Andrew drops to the grass next to him, peering curiously over his shoulder at the book.*

[jonathanparagon]

"Why would I want to?" Jonathan asks, turning to him with a grin. "Do you know what I can do now?"

The book is a Watcher's diary, one he hadn't read yet.

[stilljustandrew]

Aside from have to wear long sleeves during a New York summer? -- Which, sidebar: so glad we're finally getting something like fall.

[jonathanparagon]

"I don't feel the heat", Jonathan tells him. "The long sleeves actually bother me more. And... Andrew, if I want to, I can lift more than any weightlifter. Run faster than a sprinter. And the senses..."

[bigheadedchild]

"...Why do you have tentacles?"

Suspicion, curiosity, and... Dibness (a quality all its own that defies logical description) radiates from him.

[jonathanparagon]

"Because I'm a Sime", Jonathan answers calmly, craning round to look at him. "Also, not going to hurt you."

[bigheadedchild]

"Uh-huh. What's a Sime?"

Is it an alien?

[jonathanparagon]

"A symbiotic human, after a few thousand years' evolution", Jonathan explains.

[futures_of_ash]

And there was a red-haired woman in spandex, barefoot and predator sure over the dying grass. One could be reasonably sure that she was headed in his direction because she was grinning, wider at every step, and oddly, the air warmed as she approached.

Once she was only a foot or two away, and kneeling on eye level with him the smile was beyond grinning to infectious "You really do look like Suzi's dad!"

[jonathanparagon]

He was already turning at the ripples in the ambient as she approached, and he blinks at her now.

"...you've met him?"

[futures_of_ash]

"Not physically, no" she admitted easily enough, wrapping her arms around her knees and toning down the grin just slightly "But she allowed me to see her life in Keon"

"You look good with tentacles"

[jonathanparagon]

"...thanks", he says, still a little bemused. "Hi, Rachel."