Memories Left Abandoned [Open]

[telekinetic_badass]

After his confrontation with Sofia, Julian wandered around for a while. He didn't really pay attention to where he was going, and in his travels, he wandered into the area of the city that contained several ruins. He didn't really pay them any mind, at least until he stumbled across one that he recognized.

The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.

Even as it was, he'd recognize the place. It was his home, once. But like most everything else in his life that he thought he could count on forever, it was reduced to nothing more than ashes and rubble.

For a moment, he wondered if this was the Nightmare King's doing, but he knew the truth. He knew exactly who he was and where he was. He scoffed at the bitter irony of the situation.

"Who needs nightmares when this is your life?"

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[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Is that a rhetorical question?"

Nura is standing a few paces behind him, floating in mid-air. She had been flying around the city for a while to shake the cobwebs from her head, when she spotted the young man. A vision later, and she was right there.

She tilts her head, and looks softly ahead. "I miss my home too."

[telekinetic_badass]

"I don't," he practically spat out. He missed how his home used to be. How it was before he showed up here... well, by that time he didn't have much of a home left.

"And that was a rhetorical question."

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Mhmhmmm..." Nura let's the snark in his voice go on ignored. She's used to dealing with emotionally complicated people.

"But you must have had some good memories at least." She shrugs, floating over and touching down near a pile of rubble. She sits down. "I'm sorry if I am prying, Julian."

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian scoffed. Any happy memories he had were so long ago they seemed like another lifetime.

"I doubt that," he muttered, in response to her comment about prying. "Let me guess, teleapth?"

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Nura smiles warmly in response to his cold shoulder. "No, though I have a teammate who's a telepath. She always cheated in card games..." She pushes her hair back. "I'm a precog."

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian just glanced sideways at her.

"And you don't cheat at card games?"

At least she didn't speak in riddles. It got annoying when Blindfold kept doing that.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes." She lifts a hand to her lips and chuckles. "Ultra Boy has fits when Imra and I are on the same team."

[telekinetic_badass]

"Must make it easy to rake in the dough." Lord knows he'd cheat like hell if he could.

"So who the hell are you?"

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"It is." She smiles impishly. "Especially when you bet on chores."

"Dream Girl of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Precog of the planet Naltor." She stands up and puts out her hand. "And you are?"

[telekinetic_badass]

"Julian Keller," he answered.

"You're actually part of a group that calls themselves the 'Legion of Super-Heroes?'" That name was... obvious.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you, Julian," she said kindly. "You can call me Nura."

To his question on the legitimacy of her Legion's name, she nodded. "Yes. Defenders of youth everywhere. Imra, Garth and Rokk thought that Legion of Super-Heroes would be a more appropriate and friendly name."

[telekinetic_badass]

"A whole Legion, and none of you can come up with a cooler name?"

I switched in and out of past and present tense didn't I?

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"It was already finalized by the time other Legionnaires joined." Nura shrugs her shoulders. There's nothing that she can really do about, no one ever gave consideration to the team name.