[ when he turns to her, she dares to get a good look at him. young, like her, or thereabouts — but it's his eyes that draw her attention the most. a rich red, what some might consider "unnatural" in her world (she wonders if it's so in his), and she's suddenly brought back to an earlier moment, when she'd squinted hard at the kanji in his username until the earpiece she'd been outfitted blinked its translation at her. vermillion. if it's about his eyes, then she somehow doubts it's all that common. why highlight something if it were plain?
her own eyes are bright, too. irises larger than they should be, a startling green too rich in hue to go unnoticed. through those eyes she can see the energy fields she uses for her portals fluctuating around them, weakened — interrupted? — by the station they're on.
in every other way she looks like any other human back in her world. but a pair of eyes, and odd-toned hair, a couple of marks on her skin — that was all it took to mark her unusual and thus something to be feared and hated. it wasn't fair, any way you looked at it. ]
I used to eat out of dumpsters. [ she looks back down again, ducking her head as she's grown used to doing. ] I won't be hard to please.
[ meals were hard to come by when you were on the run, and so she tucks in like it could disappear from her sight at any seconds. ]
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her own eyes are bright, too. irises larger than they should be, a startling green too rich in hue to go unnoticed. through those eyes she can see the energy fields she uses for her portals fluctuating around them, weakened — interrupted? — by the station they're on.
in every other way she looks like any other human back in her world. but a pair of eyes, and odd-toned hair, a couple of marks on her skin — that was all it took to mark her unusual and thus something to be feared and hated. it wasn't fair, any way you looked at it. ]
I used to eat out of dumpsters. [ she looks back down again, ducking her head as she's grown used to doing. ] I won't be hard to please.
[ meals were hard to come by when you were on the run, and so she tucks in like it could disappear from her sight at any seconds. ]