Room 528, Thursday Morning

[icecoldfrost]

Emma had skipped class yesterday, preferring instead to cocoon herself in a pile of blankets and try to sleep-off her powers hangover. She didn't need to give herself a worse migraine by listening to Professor Dèmon prattle on, no matter how entertaining and well-intentioned he was.

She was feeling a bit better today, however, and was bored with sleeping. She'd ventured out of her room long enough for a shower and to steal a movie from the common room, and was now curled up on her bed again, happily humming along.

Hopefully her furred roommate wouldn't mind her choice of entertainment.

[Door and post are open! ETA: Now on SP as I go to the internet-less job.]

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[bitten_notshy]

Jack raised an eyebrow at her. "I'd take you up on that challenge, except now you have me curious again. What practice didit take to break your brain?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I spent over six hours on the roof, attempting to monitor large portions of the island to make sure my friends weren't out being idiots," she admitted. "I managed to push my range out farther than I ever had before; it was wonderful."

Right up until the break with reality, anyway.

[bitten_notshy]

Jack couldn't hide his wince. "Six hours?" he said. "I was out there five minutes and I went mad. I'm glad you're improving, but -- no wonder, Emma."

He leaned in to kiss her forehead. "Do you know why it went wrong, or were you just exhausted?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Exhausted, cold, and dealing with a lot more input from a larger range than usual. Then more people started hallucinating, and I tried to 'listen' even farther out, and my powers threw a tantrum," she replied lightly, trying to keep him from fretting. "But I'm fine now, darling, really. Karla and Sookie came and got me, and hustled me inside."

[bitten_notshy]

Jack eyed her, suspecting more had happened that she wasn't saying, but accepted the explanation enough to resume petting her hair. "I owe Karla and Sookie flowers, then," he decided. "As soon as we can go outside again."

[icecoldfrost]

"I owe them flowers," she agreed with a sigh, leaning against him slightly. "Lots and lots of flowers. Possibly an entire store's worth."

[bitten_notshy]

"Bushels," Jack agreed, and closed his eyes. "If we can ever leave the dorms again."

[icecoldfrost]

"I hope so. I don't have enough pop tarts to last me more than a few days," Emma pointed out. "We all have to get food somehow."

[bitten_notshy]

"We could band up and go on supply runs," Jack mused. "Though if we could do that, it might be better to get off the island all together."

He sighed and flopped backward on the bed. "I don't like feeling so damned useless."

[icecoldfrost]

"Can we order up a portal in the lobby or something, and all go back to the Bahamas and work on the mystery there?" Emma sighed, reaching down to play with his hair. "I think I could support that plan."

[bitten_notshy]

"You'd think that with all the magical types around here, someone would have thought of that," Jack said wistfully.