25 - You can't be a Queen, you know, till you've passed the proper examination

[notdreaming]

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[ Kara is as chipper as the day she left, though the sigh of relief that escapes her suggests that this is a recent change. Kryptonians do get headaches, it turns out. Especially when they argue with their own Council. ]

Hello again, barge! I can see I've only been gone a few days in this timeline. It's been more like a year and a half, in mine. Superman says hello, and so does Mother. They practically insisted I take Krypto with me.

[ Hearing his name, the big white dog barks cheerfully from his place at his mistress' side. She smiles and reaches down to scratch his ears, which quiets him down. ]

I brought some... interesting souvenirs. [ She snickers, glancing off-screen to look at the small pile. ] See, everyone on Earth is really excited about Krypton, and everyone on Krypton is really excited about Earth. And I get free merchandise, because everyone wants an endorsement. A lot of it has pictures of places the artist has only seen from other pictures, and the result is... well, like I said, interesting.

Who wants a volcano snow globe, or a cat light chime?

[ She holds up one of each: A snow globe depicting a very shiny gilded gold mountain with red "lava" snow, and what looks like a Hello Kitty wind chime in orange, but instead of metal bars something that looks like tiny lines of light. These are in fact very small metal bars. They reflect rainbows all over the place, it's great. ]

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[mercurialize]

Looks like I beat you back.

Hey, Kara.

[He gives a smile. Still the same face, but there's a worn look in his eyes. Something just seems missing.]

And what the hell is a cat light chime supposed to do?

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[tucky]

[That light chime is super pretty; hell yes she wants it.]

Is the Hello Kitty one taken yet? Can anyone have it?

[babyfacedkiller]

[ Lloyd hasn't been feeling his most social lately, what with the being recently deceased, so the communicator thing has gone mostly ignored. But now this blond girl is on there, glowing like she just birthed Jesus or something. And good for her, if that's the case, but that's not what gets Lloyd's attention. ]

Did you say Krypton?

[ He's not really a great reader of anything, including comic books, but he was a kid once, and then he read his share. Or paged through, anyway. He doesn't remember a whole lot about the actual stories, it's all a mishmash of WHAM and KAPOW in his head, but come on, who doesn't know about Krypton? And fucking Superman, for that matter. ]

[strangehistorian]

Welcome back!

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[walkthedarkpath]

Welcome Back, how was your trip?