Mystery from Another World

Part 126: House Calls (IC)

[OP]

For years, Rumi had woken up before dwan, done her morning work out and warm up routing, eaten a high protein and veggitlbe rich breakfast, and done on her patrols. Alone.

This day was the first time since ehs was...what, 19? That she'd not woekn up alone in her own aparemtntnet.

She was so suo that she cond forgot about it when she jumped out of her sleeping bag and only remcme when she wain the bathroom and didn't have her medicine babint inf forn o her.

"Oh s--t," she looked at herself in the emirror.

Yes the ofin baoht hear had mirrios, this must have been a nice place before it closed. She ahdne vn found cockarochs in her room like she expected to.

"Okay," she told her frelnf, ho out her toothbrush at it. "You're in an old build with vialins...who hate you. No big. You've got this. NEe let them see you flinch. Bsice, it just afoa few days, tisl Ike chalngle. Like that weird side quest no one ever thinks matter but then you get that cool power up item from it."

She anwt about ot act nevoru around the LOV of all people...though she wodnerd,wthi iLSti ona o rein them in...what would they be like? PRao lato more hostile. They wer clear imtin byt aht woman.

AFter she got her costume on she braced herself and headed donwoar.

IT was so early though she ahdl no one else would b up.

But she didn't know how jmp villaing getned eto get, and one no the run form heroes already and murder ninjas.

Not many of them had slept htoht tonight either, and eveyron except Silk and Toga was up. And they aln ewr akwa..but both of them out roe nfo toth ier aprenat htan any of the male members did.

MEdea also just threw on her clothes and didn't bother, she semeed depressed to Compress, thog no one else had noticed any changes in he morod yet.

MIrk had the rfelint aht' inotovet get when she saw all of them already in the kitchenette outer are whoer Con ha dput a table or use for meals that the always packed with him...Cleo blindly panic, but she pushed that aside and set herl to Lok totally chill. [I dotn en think shes' really an introvert, but I think this would dmake enaeh feel like one.]

Hoen til she appeared, MEdea and Daib had half forn she was even there and they both have her weird looks.

"That wasn't a dream," DAib announced falfly. "gReat."

Wild," Medea looked at her coffee (yes she drank coffee at 16).

MIrko didn't plan to eat any here, but the coffee did smell good==and titaoi tdinr it, not way it was tampered with.

She sto pretin the kthicn where Spinner was still getting hiseml some.

"Hi..." he said, lon about as wkaern as you'd expect.

She nodded, barley not sure she's to say.

"Hi, thank don me can a your lair en thohg I'ma  Pro hero?"

She glanced over Shigak wohasthsth end of the table in total silence, lokng half slsepe.

that how that guy ever look awake in he was thirean someone?

She didn't lrealy know anyone else..nota hot she really knew Spinner osh the ell either, but...it was less wrid at least with them, right?

She grabbed the coffee pot. "Do you ahv nay other mugs?"

'Uh..sure," Spinner iotn t owaht an a paper cup, but he was snerovus.

She took it and put the do in iwthia ND donating.