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WHO: Sally Blevins and Lorna Dane
WHERE: Central Park
WHEN: Wednesday afternoon
WARNINGS: um...I'll update if there are any
SUMMARY: Sally and Lorna discuss Magneto and other things.
FORMAT: paraskating

Sally was wandering around Central Park after her shift. She'd already dropped in on some locals she'd made friends with and delivered them food, so she was taking the moment to enjoy the spring weather. She didn't walk though, preferring to utilize her force field to help her skid along the sidewalk and across the grass as she pleased. Back home she wouldn't have dared doing this in the open anymore, but she felt safe enough to breeze by in the less traveled areas in the City.

Plus she really enjoyed the people watching.

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Lorna was levitating not to high off the ground, but obviously noticeable. The woman gave no care if it bothered people, though. She liked her powers, and she always used them whenever she felt like it.

Her hair always made her stand out, so she'd be quite noticeable.

Sally whirled across the sidewalk, smiling as she skated. She shifted direction when she spotted Lorna. She was fairly certain that's who she was at least because of the green hair and levitating. They had talked a number of times over the network but this was the first time Sally had ever met her face to face.

"Hello."

Lorna lifted her head, and gazed forward.

"Hello, Skids."

She recalled the young woman from the network.

She stopped in front of the woman, and smiled.

"It's just Sally. Um...do you like going by Lorna or...?"

She couldn't recall what her codename was.

"My codename is Polaris, but Lorna's fine," Lorna grinned. "Why don't you take a seat? It really is quite nice out."

"This is the best time of the year, when everything starts coming to life again," Sally mused, and sat down cross-legged on the grass. "Were you...meditating?"

"Yes," Lorna nodded. "It helps me control my powers."

Or...keep myself from cracking!

"You'd be surprised how it can keep you in check."

"Oh? Your powers are difficult to control?" Sally asked, leaning back a little. "I think I remember Jean used to meditate. Maybe it was her."

Sometimes her memories were fuzzy. She blamed Stryfe.

"Sometimes," Lorna responded. "Everything has a magnetic field. I could kill anyone who crosses me with a clench of my fist."

She shrugged it off, though.

"These powers are different than my older ones. That's how they feel, anyways."

That was kind of frightening, but a lot of powers could be that way so Sally didn't focus on it.

"You have different powers?"

"Slightly. I lost my powers on M-Day, but Apocalypse restored them," she glared a little. "Not a fair trade."

Sally nodded. She couldn't begin to imagine what it was like having Apocalypse restore anything and didn't imagine he'd done it out of the goodness of his heart.

"So it's like figuring out how to use them all over again?"

"A little, yes," Lorna lifted a hand, letting green energy spark between her fingers. "Almost makes me wish Magneto was here. He's good to train with."

"Your powers are similar to his, I think," Sally murmured, watching the energy. "His was a different color. Did you use to train with him a lot?"

"Yes," Lorna nodded. "After Alex 'died', I went to Genosha with Magneto. He taught me quite a lot."

How to tap into the magnetic field of the Earth, among other amazing things.

"That was when he was actually in charge of Genosha, right?" Sally asked. It was hard to keep everything she knew about the future straight. Sometimes the information blurred into a mess of nonsense. "He let Rusty and I join him on Avalon after he unbrainwashed us."

She would always be grateful for that.

"Yes," Lorna nodded. "And before it was destroyed."

But oh, that caught her attention.

"And I could see him doing that."

"I heard a little about that," Sally told Lorna, but she still didn't know exactly what had happened there or how awful it had been.

"Yeah. He gave us a safe place to stay. Well, until it was destroyed."

"It happens, it seems," Lorna mused. "Wherever mutants go to live, it always ends up being destroyed."

"Another mutant is the one who did it," Sally reflected, remembering that awful day. "I don't think he would have succeeded if Magneto had actually been conscious."

"No, it wouldn't have. Magneto can be very...territorial when he wants to be," Lorna nodded. "He likes to get what he wants."

"But Genosha was destroyed?" Sally frowned.

"He...wasn't around at the time," Lorna explained. "I went back there for a few...reasons, and nearly the second I stepped foot on the island, sentinels came. He wouldn't have been able to stop them."

Edited 2010-05-06 03:31 (UTC)

"What?" Sally pressed a hand to her mouth, horrified. "Sentinels...who sent them?"

"Cassandra Nova," Lorna spoke. "But it doesn't matter who sent them, Sally. They were tools of mankind created to make our lives hell. I blame them just as much as I blame her."