Day 61: Recreation Field (Shift 2)

[complicatedliar]

Loki wasn't entirely thrilled about returning to the recreation field, though he supposed it would be nicer during the day. And without the annoying presence of Riku. Some fresh air would likely do him good; that was what Sif and Thor had always claimed right before they dragged him out of the library.

He wasn't entirely certain if that was a pleasant thought or not. It was still far too mixed up and painful.

He was allowed to go back to his room and pull out every bit of warm clothing he had, bundling up as much as he could. As he followed the nurse out into the field, he also wondered if this meant he would miss out on the greenhouse, since he'd arranged to meet Soma after lunch. That had priority, of course, but he did find plants interesting. At least it was good to know there were activities they were forced to participate in during the day that weren't as horrifically painful as, say, what the music room would indicate.

Good to know that as prisons went, it wasn't all just torture, torture, torture. Some variation was good for the mind.

He wandered along the crunchy, dead grass, for now steering clear of the few other patients. The air felt much better during the day, smelled much better to him as well as he sniffed at it. even if it was cold enough to make his nose hurt. It reminded him uncomfortably of Jotunheim, and...

But at least here, there was sunlight. He wasn't trapped in that dark place as sometimes was in his nightmares.

Loki stopped about halfway down the field, tilting his head back to take in the thin sunlight, his eyes slipping shut.

[Here, angel angel angel... :D Castiel!]

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[oneman_onekill]

Niikura sighed. "Nah, nah, I'm not scared of that. It's just...my power's kinda morbid and hard to explain, that's all." He exhaled slowly and looked off away toward the rest of the field. "I've got two, actually. One is the power to be in more than one place at a time." He shook his head. "But that's nothin' special, in my opinion. The second one's the one that throws everyone for a loop."

There was a short pause as he just stood there, hands shoved in the pockets of his jacket, staring off into space until finally: "Guess it's just hard to believe, but I don't die, even when I...okay, this is repetitive, but even when I die, does that make sense?" He looked back at the stranger. "Like, ya could shoot me in the head right now, and I'd come back after a bit like it never happened: same appearance, same personality, same memories, same everything, not a scratch on me--well, not right now 'cause my powers are blocked here. But normally."

He scratched the back of his head. "It was, uh...findin' out was kind of weird, obviously." Time to seem like he wanted to change the subject, although he kind of really did want to because he could tell he was talking about himself too much. Not that that was a bad thing, but if he wasn't getting anything in return, it was better to start redirecting the conversation. "--What's yours, by the way?" Since this "next" business seemed to be connected to superpowers and all.

[oyaji]

"Huh." It wasn't a very constructive comment, but Niikura's words were a lot to take in at once. If it were true, that is. There were certainly some powers that were rarer than others, but immortality and bending the laws of physics seemed kind of improbable.

Then again, what did he know?

"Mine? It's, uh, Hundred Power. You know, like the kind Wild Tiger has?" There. He had found a way to seamlessly name drop. Niikura would probably just write him off as a Wild Tiger fanboy or look-alike.

[oneman_onekill]

Uh...well, it looked like he...kind of believed him? Funny that people actually took his lies more seriously than the truth. But that was life for you: strange as hell.

"Never heard of it," Niikura replied honestly. 'Hundred Power'? So his power went up by a factor of a hundred? Something like that? Super strength sounded pretty awesome, even if it wasn't very original. "Or 'Wild Tiger', while we're at it. He's some kinda superhero, then?" Real superheroes! Go figure.

Well, if anime characters could come to life and if turtles could walk, he wasn't going to be a skeptic.