With Bakura's departure from Aifaran coinciding with the start of the new year, Pepper has been struggling to deal with the loss and the simultaneous impulse to help the city recover. She swings, sometimes wildly, between collapsing beneath devastating grief and throwing herself into the work and persona of Rescue.
The armor is well-suited to this kind of work; she can lift hundreds of pounds and fly them to the drop-off zones, brace unstable sections of buildings, and locate survivors buried in the rubble. Vee is almost always nearby, sometimes towering at her full ten feet and sometimes scaled down to human size depending on what she's assisting with. The ka silently nudges Pepper from time to time, reminding her to rest when she works for too long. This is met with mixed success, and Pepper will stay at a recovery site well past the point of exhaustion more often than she relents and goes home.
At one point she's pausing to get some water and scarf down a sandwich provided to the volunteers when she hears the tell-tale cracking and splintering of breaking wood. Pepper drops what she's holding and kicks off the boot jets at the same time, sweeping into a building and catching one of the support beams before it collapses. Vee shimmers into view as the braces another, and Pepper feels the mental strain of her summoned presence despite wearing the Duelist gauntlet.
"We've got this!" She yells this confirmation at the other people who have come to help. "Get some supports or just get everyone out of here."
II. Hazards and Hushed Whispers
One of the lightning trees took root near the townhouse - her townhouse? - and Pepper has more or less been ignoring it in favor of working. Keeping busy means she doesn't have a lot of time to feel the hole in her heart, and it means she's too tired to dream much when she falls asleep.
She stopped to check the tree out on her way home. Emerging directly from the pavement, the tree proudly bears a pink and white fruit that resembles peaches. It looks like a few people have harvested the fruit despite warnings from the Sentry. As tired as she is, Pepper ends up staring at the tree and then staring into space, mind wandering around the strange phenomenon of the Dreaming.
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With Bakura's departure from Aifaran coinciding with the start of the new year, Pepper has been struggling to deal with the loss and the simultaneous impulse to help the city recover. She swings, sometimes wildly, between collapsing beneath devastating grief and throwing herself into the work and persona of Rescue.
The armor is well-suited to this kind of work; she can lift hundreds of pounds and fly them to the drop-off zones, brace unstable sections of buildings, and locate survivors buried in the rubble. Vee is almost always nearby, sometimes towering at her full ten feet and sometimes scaled down to human size depending on what she's assisting with. The ka silently nudges Pepper from time to time, reminding her to rest when she works for too long. This is met with mixed success, and Pepper will stay at a recovery site well past the point of exhaustion more often than she relents and goes home.
At one point she's pausing to get some water and scarf down a sandwich provided to the volunteers when she hears the tell-tale cracking and splintering of breaking wood. Pepper drops what she's holding and kicks off the boot jets at the same time, sweeping into a building and catching one of the support beams before it collapses. Vee shimmers into view as the braces another, and Pepper feels the mental strain of her summoned presence despite wearing the Duelist gauntlet.
"We've got this!" She yells this confirmation at the other people who have come to help. "Get some supports or just get everyone out of here."
II. Hazards and Hushed Whispers
One of the lightning trees took root near the townhouse - her townhouse? - and Pepper has more or less been ignoring it in favor of working. Keeping busy means she doesn't have a lot of time to feel the hole in her heart, and it means she's too tired to dream much when she falls asleep.
She stopped to check the tree out on her way home. Emerging directly from the pavement, the tree proudly bears a pink and white fruit that resembles peaches. It looks like a few people have harvested the fruit despite warnings from the Sentry. As tired as she is, Pepper ends up staring at the tree and then staring into space, mind wandering around the strange phenomenon of the Dreaming.