Neighbors! [Jacket]

"Thanks, and uhm. Not so much in need of anything neighbor wise but," Sarah looked in her apartment which was a mess. That wasn't what she needed either, but she looked there because she was considering inviting the girl over. "Would... would you like to come in and have some tea or something?" She asked, "I don't drink coffee but I have my mom's old machine and some grounds if you prefer that, but I'm more into tea myself. Unless you would rather not just... I would like to talk to you about that day. You know, the day with Aegis and that other lady with the acid spit and junk."

She thought about it more, was that all she wanted to talk about?

"If you're busy I totally understand."

Sarah opened the door wider and made her way in, "Sorry about the mess. Still going through physical therapy. I have a dishwasher though, this unit didn't come with one but I have a counter top one that plugs in." She pointed toward the machine that took up much of the room next to her sink. The thing looked like an over-sized microwave.

She turned on the tap and grabbed her kettle, pouring the water into it before setting it on her stovetop and turning it on, then turning the tap off. She grabbed two large mugs from her cupboard and set them both down upright next to a lazy susanne on her counter with all the different types of tea she had. Some were in loose leaf containers. She had been very into the tea thing lately.

"It was kind of a rough day for me to say the least, got my arm cut off with my own sword." She had a pretty rundown couch that she didn't want to subject this girl too so she gestured to two bar stool seats on the opposite side of her counter that formed a sort of makeshift breakfast nook, probably the only nice thing in this entire place. She took a seat, "I have some honey and this german rock sugar stuff that this one tea place talked me into buying. But yeah, thanks for coming toward the end there. I don't know what happened after I conked out but, getting to a hospital saved me."

"Yeah, I uh... I had a rough time with Aegis. I mean Steven did what he could but mostly it was just me and Aegis throughout. He kept throwing cars at people who were way too out of their league in terms of how strong they were and stuff." She gave a small grin and looked over at the girl, "I... I don't want to be rude but... wasn't it quite dangerous for you?"

Her eyes told her the truth about this girl.

"Your body, it's really frail, isn't it? You aren't that strong either. But I don't imagine you are useless because of that, you seemed really helpful and stuff, especially given how brave you were to be fighting in the first place just... how do you do it? I mean I fought that thing till it inexplicably got knocked out, fought tooth and nail, I was cut in half at one point saving a kid named Kyou..."

She had to ask her the obvious thing that came to mind, "Are.. are you capable of using Qi?"

"Sorry, I'm not trying to be intrusive just... I can see people's physical prowess in relation to my own thanks to..." She reached up and popped out a contact lens, showing off her green eye rather than the red eyes that showed with the lens in. She popped it back in shortly after. "I gauge who can and can't fight this way, and I know when to go easy on people at school or when I need to fight for my life. I can also see if someone makes themself stronger, faster, or tougher mid fight. Helps me suss out if they are using Qi."

She didn't want to over explain but the girl mentioned her intellect and using other's Qi. If she was ever to be in a situation where they fought together she wanted this girl to have knowledge of her abilities. "I have a ton of things like this that help me, that make me stronger. I have Qi to, I can charm people, don't worry I'm not doing it now and I don't use it to entice people cus that's gross, I use it to distract in fights or life or death situations."

She thought about it some more, "There's a lot I can do. I feel like with you having that sort of knowledge it'd probably help us out if we were ever in a jam." With the contact in she was able to drink her tea, she never added anything to it when it was hot. She added the sugar she had to iced tea when she made that, but for hot tea it was just the tea.

"So do you prefer Jacket or Joscilyn? Because Joscilyn is super pretty but if you like Jacket better I can call you that."

"Oh, oh yeah I have some of those things." She said as she looked down at it and thought about getting an infection. "I mean, I've got a pretty solid immune system. I'll wash them though." Sarah walked over to the sink where she actually had the little containers that they soaked in and some of the liquid that was used to clean them. She rinsed them in the stuff and put them in the newly filled case before sliding them over to Jacket.

"Put them on, trust me. It's a pretty awesome thing to see." Sarah thought about it, "If you're as smart as you say you are, you should actually keep them. I don't think I need them anymore. They have become sort of a crutch to me anyway, and a weakness of sorts. They make me overconfident."

It was the truth, in fights recently she had become very overconfident only to have people surprise her in how they fought.

"I think I'm gonna go with Joscilyn if it's alright, it's really really pretty, much like the owner of the name!" She gave an earnest smile before realizing something, "If you'd like you can call me Louie. A select few call me that, it's a shortened version of my middle name that my mom called me before she passed." Sarah returned to her stool and took a long sip of her tea. "I'm sure Qi will come to you too by the way. I hope it comes in a much safer environment than mine did."

"Mine was out of necessity for sure, I was being attacked by two chumps in an alley trying to get fresh. Put a really quick fucking end to them though, I used Qi to sober up and then from there I was able to kick their asses pretty easily. And as for the contacts, yeah they hinder me more than help but someone with your intelligence should be given information in situations like fighting Aegis."

She thought about it, she could have communicated strengths and weaknesses of Banshee's physical abilities but she was in rough shape. "Just promise me you'll use it to communicate and help people in big times of need. Or hell, even to keep yourself safe from threats if you have to."

Sarah knew that Louie fit her a lot better than Sarah most of the time, it fit her personality quite a bit for sure, but Joscilyn is the kind of name she wish she had been given. It's so pretty! "So you go to 552, huh?" She wondered if the girl had been in the loop of some other recent attacks. "Were you around for the Riot stuff?"