strangetrip | [GP/EP] Check-in Day

Liz was starting to get better at the whole check-in day stuff. She knew she hadn't seen 'everything' yet, but she was learning from watching Kitty and Caroline and the others how to approach distressed, confused, and even angry people. It wasn't always perfect, but she was getting better.

With the help from the bakery, there were muffins on trays in the lobby - Mary had insisted. She insisted on coming in every once in a while to restock the trays too.

Liz had helped bring another tray to the front desk and then moved to sit at one of the couches that had a view of the front doors. She had a complicated science essay for Kitty due in a week and Liz was having trouble finding the right wording to express her thoughts.

Every once in a while, Liz would look up to see if there was someone knew approaching. There could be no one today or there could be a lot. Briefly, she wondered if someone else from home would show up. A part of her was curious who that would be, but she found a larger part of herself was hoping no one else would.

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Ororo shook her head, "but she could have been part of the original team. I didn't learn their names. I think it was back in the sixties." Which was twenty years for Storm, it was 1983 when she'd left Cairo for New York.

More information to file away, and F.R.I.D.A.Y. did so promptly.

"I could introduce you. She and I are collaborators in regards to research around these parts."

"What kind of research are you collaborating on?" Ororo asked with a little interest. She didn't know much about science but if it was to return to New York from the Inn, she might offer to be an eye in the sky.

"Researching our new digs." Tony gestured at the main body of the hotel. "Its own bubble, how it relates to every other bubble out there, how we can, uh, well not make it go 'pop!' but how we can pass in and out of the soapy film, if you will."

Escape, that was, and re-entry if necessary. He eyed Ororo, not missing the flicker of interest in her eye. "Always looking for more recruits."

Normally, Storm wouldn't be as open with a stranger as she was with Tony, but he knew an X-man even if it was one she'd never heard of. Which was why she pushed up from the fence and opened her arms, to allow the material that flowed along her arms to billow in the now manufactured current.

Her eyes turned white and she rose above the ground only a few feet. "if you need experiments in the sky, I can help." Ororo lowered herself to the ground once more and her eyes returned to their natural brown.

The wind billowed, making Tony's loosely styled hair flutter. A pulse of energy with Ororo at its center spread out, and F.R.I.D.A.Y. ran analytics 'Psionic capabilities? Witchcraft? Curioser and curioser.' Whatever it was, Tony could use it.

"More eyes in the sky, a body to test the barrier if you're so bold." No use being coy about it. "I've run headlong into that thing. Not that I'd expect a crash test from anyone else."

"I can use more than just my body to test it." Ororo said and held her hands out, palms upward but she made very sure that she was not facing Tony so that he wouldn't get accidentally hit with her lightening bolts.

Flashes of strong lightening bolts erupted from her hands. The light show was intense for a moment and then died down to nothing. "I am a weather mutant." She explained, though she probably didn't need to.

'Thor's got competition.' Came Tony's immediate thought. His glasses darkened to accommodate his vision against the violent flashes before they dissipated.

"You're hired."

"It will be my pleasure to find a way out." Ororo said with a small smile. She didn't think she could on her own when obviously others here could not, but she also had confidence in her abilities to try to blow a hole in the 'bubble'.

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