[ Her empathy here is -- lessened. Not in the way that means power nullifiers at work on her or others, that is an emptiness that is endless and unbreakable. She hates that feeling. It's still unsettling to not have what she knows she should be capable of available to her, but it's actually easier to not have the constant cacophony in her head. This many people, this close.
She shudders to think what it would be like to have her full capabilities, especially as broken as her shields are, in this close quarters.
But she feels it, the moment something in her mind snaps into place. It's faint and thin, the gentle threads of something that had only been beginning to be understood, but it is to her absolutely unmistakable. Marlowe.
She's on her feet a moment later, sprinting only a few seconds after that as she searches for the exact position, tries to pinpoint where he is, sending her mind ahead of her to reach out to him, let him know that she's here. ]
Marlowe. [ She turns a corner and he's there and she almost laughs but doesn't quite, heads directly towards him with every intention of wrapping her arms around him. ] You're here.
the pleased yell was VERY MUFFLED so as to not wake people
She shudders to think what it would be like to have her full capabilities, especially as broken as her shields are, in this close quarters.
But she feels it, the moment something in her mind snaps into place. It's faint and thin, the gentle threads of something that had only been beginning to be understood, but it is to her absolutely unmistakable. Marlowe.
She's on her feet a moment later, sprinting only a few seconds after that as she searches for the exact position, tries to pinpoint where he is, sending her mind ahead of her to reach out to him, let him know that she's here. ]
Marlowe. [ She turns a corner and he's there and she almost laughs but doesn't quite, heads directly towards him with every intention of wrapping her arms around him. ] You're here.