013 - You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

[notdreaming]

[ Video ]

Um. What happens if I broke it?

[ Kara looks vaguely terrified, and she's holding what appears to be Dean's (or maybe Ben's, has anyone noticed how alike they look?) porcelain head gingerly by its hair. The rest of the doll is conspicuously absent. ]

I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to, it just sort of... crumbled in my hand.

[ His feet are on the floor somewhere. ]

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[deadly_ned]

It's a trick.

He's probably tricking us at this very moment.

[notdreaming]

By not being in pain even though I kind of atomized his doll?

[deadly_ned]

He can be exceptionally sneaky.

[notdreaming]

Nobody's that sneaky.

[deadly_ned]

He's listening to us. Right now.

He's a supernatural spy.

[surfaceshine]

Ned.

Have you met me?

I am absolutely not that sneaky.

[And has absolutely not done that before at all or anything.]

[deadly_ned]

I'm not so easily fooled.

[surfaceshine]

I'm fine.

[deadly_ned]

That was more forceful an answer than I was anticipating.

[surfaceshine]

Hey, you're the one convinced I'm faking, and spying or whatever.

[deadly_ned]

I'm not convinced you're faking. I just know a sneaker because I'm something of a sneaker myself.

[notdreaming]

This is a public feed. I'd be more surprised if you weren't listening to a conversation about yourself.

[surfaceshine]

Right?

Don't worry about him, darlin', he's... excitable.

[notdreaming]

I can't blame him for being worried. I'm just glad you're okay.

[surfaceshine]

The problem being that I shouldn't be.

[notdreaming]

Right now I think that's the opposite of a problem.

[surfaceshine]

That's because you're still in apologize mode.

I've moved on to what the hell does it mean mode.

[notdreaming]

Well... we don't actually know that it hasn't happened to anyone else, do we? The only reason we know about you is because I talked to you about it.

[surfaceshine]

Me 'n Ned, so far.

But we have about a dozen things in common, and that's just counting what I know about.

[notdreaming]

So we should ask around, find out what everyone else is up to with these dolls.

[surfaceshine]

Might have to wait until the flood dies down. Everyone's all riled up finding their own doll right now.

...which, where's yours?

[notdreaming]

I don't know. I haven't had any problems, it didn't seem important.

[ Somebody's a little caught up in her own invulnerability. ]

[surfaceshine]

We don't know what's important and what's not right now. All we know is what's different.

[Goddamn Kryptonians. Dean forgot how terrible the combination of invulnerability and youth can really be.]

[notdreaming]

So?

[ Worse: newfound invulnerability plus already hard-headed teenager. ]

[surfaceshine]

You're into science. This ain't so far off from that:

Find what's different, find what else is different, find out what they have in common, and yahtzee.