Shady Solitude [Open!]

[girl-of-steel.livejournal.com]

Kara Zor-El stepped out of the small Kryptonian temple to Rao and walked back onto the...could she call it a street? She wasn't sure. She'd privately nicknamed this place Religion Row, though, because of all of the houses of worship. She brushed back a lock of her impossibly shiny golden blonde hair, noticing that the more she was away from the affect of the yellow sun, the more her hair was fading to becoming just a regular, dull blonde. This, she wasn't so fond of. She liked it when her hair was all prismatic and shiny and impossibly unreal. She crossed her arms and sighed, walking through the area and seating herself underneath the shade of a large, inexplicably blue tree. She'll never get used to seeing some of the things here. Back home on Krypton, almost everything was made of organic crystal. This place is as organic as Krypton, but so much more filled with life...though perhaps not as much life as Kara's seen on Earth during her short time there.

She brought her knees up to her chest and hugged them, lost in her thoughts and daydreams, enjoying the solitude and being far and away from anyone named Brainiac.

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And speaking of...

Brainiac 5 had decided to take a look around what else there was available of the ship and the city was one of the last places he'd made a note to stop by, due to its size. Flying made things much easier there, though for the most part there isn't much that catches his attention.

A Kryptonian building does, however.

He flies down to investigate before he notices Kara nearby and makes a detour to land near her.

"Supergirl," he says with a trace of a smile. He glances back at the building. "It seems to be Kryptonian in design, correct? Is that why you're here?"

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Kara's eyes had flared red when she first saw the green-skinned blonde-haired form approaching her. Realizing that it was Robo-Brainy, her eyes resumed their usual blue hue. She offered him a friendly smile. "Yeah. It's a temple to Rao. You know, the Kryptonian god? I...only just found it. It felt nice to go inside. Almost...like being home again."

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He notices the flare of heatvision and it makes him step back quickly, smile disappearing as he wonders if he did something wrong. Then it's gone and Kara smiles at him, which leads him to conclude that he's not the one she has the problem with.

And with there only being one other green-skinned, blond-haired person on the ship, it isn't hard to imagine who she must be angry with. He files away the information to ask about later.

"It is? But... it can't be the one from Kandor... Can it?"

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"Honestly?" Kara looks at it and then back at Brainy. "I'm not sure. It's a lot like it, but my memories of Krypton are already shaky as it is, you know? Being in suspended animation does that to you. But...it's close enough. It feels Kryptonian. That helps." She pats the seat next to him, offering him a seat.

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"I suppose I can understand that," he agrees. He still has those files from the media library after all, and his own plans on what to do with them aren't dissimilar to what Kara was talking about.

A little hesitant, he takes a seat next to her. "Is there something bothering you?"

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Kara licks her lips and thinks about this for a moment. "Not..really. I just had a bit of an argument with a...friend...and it's just, you know, been swirling around the back of my mind since it happened. But that's really it. How're you doing? Gotten adjusted to the ship, I hope."

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I take it by 'friend', you mean my counterpart?" he says with a wry smile. "Or was there some other reason you were going to greet me with your heatvision?"

The other question gets a shrug. "I've gotten a good idea where everything is, yes. I'm not sure I'd call that 'adjusted' however. In fact I wonder if it's even possible to adjust fully to a situation like this."

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"Sorry about that. I didn't mean to...be hostile towards you." She raises an eyebrow. The last time she'd spoken to this Brainy, he'd insisted that she'd been into Brainiac. Which, okay, she was. But she hadn't told him that. "No, I mean...him." She thinks for a moment. "I guess. I just try not think about...everywhere I was before here." She motions to the temple. "Though things like that make it a little bit harder."

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"It's fine. If you're anything like Superman, then I'm sure you had perfectly sound reasons for acting like you did."

A pause, and he glances over at the temple with an expression that might be... guilt? "I can understand that. There's some things about before that I'd rather not think about either."

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"I don't know how much I am or am not like Kal," Kara admits, nodding her head. "But I'm working on it," she adds. "The S-shield...there's a large legacy behind it, and not just on Krypton anymore. So many Earthlings have worn the symbol and - ugh - it's a daunting task to live up to." Truth be told, there are many, many days where Kara feels she doesn't deserve the shield just by virtue of being Superman's cousin. She has a lot to do before she's worthy of the shield usually emblazoned across her chest. Perhaps that's why fate brought her here.

Kara notices Brainy's expression and raises an eyebrow. "Your own before? Or your ancestral before?"

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"Living up to someone like Superman... It can't be easy," Brainiac 5 agrees. "But I wasn't aware that so many others had also wore his shield. I suppose it's another difference between our dimensions." He studies her for a moment longer and hesitantly offers, "but... I'm sure he's happy with you simply trying to do your best. At least that's been my experience."

He can't flush, he not capable of a lot of little organic things like that, but he does glance away at the question. "Both," he says after a while.

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"I like to think he is," Kara says, a soft smile on her lips. She turns to sit so that she's facing the robotic Brainy, and she places a hand on his shoulder. It's clear that she really does want to try to be friends with this Brainiac. "Would you like to talk about it? I hear that my super-hearing is great for stuff like this," she says warmly.

[brainy-bot.livejournal.com]

This Brainy's far more comfortable with physical contact than the other, so he doesn't mind Kara's hand and turns to face her as well.

"I'm not sure how much I can really say," he says carefully. "My ancestor has always been a... difficult topic to discuss. Even the Legion didn't know about it until recently."

[lastofkuith.livejournal.com]

Pirogoeth had found a temple like the one back home, the most famous temple with offerings and place of prayer for all seven of the goddesses. However, while she did believe in them completely, it was interesting to learn what was so on other worlds.

The crystal temple had been seem particularly interesting and she decided to take a look inside. To see what sort of gods they had, a way to learn a bit about the world.

She didn't expect to see someone there, looking to be distressed. She hesitated. Did they want comfort or would it be better to leave them alone?

[girl-of-steel.livejournal.com]

Kara's hearing picked up the sound of someone very close by. She looked up from her lap and tilted her head a little, using her telescopic vision to get a better look at who it was in the temple. It was a figure she didn't recognize but still, to be friendly, the young woman waved.

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She was responding to outsiders. That means she wasn't going for total isolation. Pirogoeth raised a hand in greeting, walking over to the girl. "Hello," she greeted.

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Nope. She was just taking a break from a certain green skinned, arrogant, jerk-faced superhero. (http://cabbage-butt.livejournal.com/profile) Besides, socialization outside of her regular circles might do Kara some good. "Hi," Kara greeted, rearranging her face into a smile. "I'm Kara," she said, introducing herself.

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"It is a pleasure, Kara. I am Pirogoeth," Pirogoeth replied, taking a seat next to Kara, but giving her, and herself, some space.

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"Pirogoeth," Kara said, turning to look at the other female. "That's a really pretty name. Can I ask where it's from?"

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"Thank you. It's of Kuith, of the Endgames world," Pirogoeth answered. "And Kara...it sounds almost like Reaht, but if this temple is of thy homeplace, it's not likely to be so," she said, looking around the temple.

[girl-of-steel.livejournal.com]

The world isn't one familiar to Kara, but she lets it pass. As it is, the people on this ship are made up of people from so many different worlds that...well, it's not really that big of a surprise that Kara wouldn't have heard of Kuith, the Endgames world, or Reaht. "It's from Krypton," she explaine after a moment. "Both this temple, and myself." She paused and then said, "Well, at least the temple is a simulacrum of something that existed on my home planet. I'm honestly not sure how real it is or isn't."

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"Reaht is also on Endgames, so it is of no surprise if thee hath not heard of Endgames, thou would not know the Kingdoms," Pirogoeth commented, before focusing on Kara again. "To have such buildings, Kyrpton must have been beautiful."

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"It was," Kara nodded, her eyes growing a little distant as she thought of home. "The crystal here...it's all organic, grown naturally. Our trees - everything, was made of crystal. Some people...may have found it cold, but in truth, it was beautiful. Just..." she trailed off and then said, softly, "beautiful." She turned to look at Pirogoeth again, "Though, to be honest, I don't remember that much about home. Just bits and pieces. I was kept in suspended animation for a good amount of years." She rubbed her hands on the bodysuit supplied by the ship asked, "What about you? Are there any...vestiges...of your home world here?"

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Pirogoeth closed her eyes, imagining it. "It may be because few understand how warm crystals can be," she said. She had seen how warm crystals could be. Crystals were used in many spells. They held many a natural magic as well as being a focus point. "One that lives, that bears life, would only be warmer."

Suspended animation? There were spells that described that. One that went into a deep sleep. "There are warnings of such, when people sleep too deeply that the mind is affect," she murmured/

She opened her eyes again. "There is a temple of the seven goddesses in my world among these, yes."

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Kara smiled wistfully at Pirogoeth's description. "Someone who understands," she says. "That's refreshing." She tucked back a lock of her hair. "I was under long enough to have lost a lot of my memories," she said. "Sometimes something will trigger a new memory, but more often than not, the new memory is something that's dark and unwanted - a memory that leaves me wishing that I won't remember anymore. I sometimes can't help but wonder if not remembering will give me the fresh start that I need." Kara had blood on her hands. Her mother's blood. The blood of her classmates. She remembered this, and she tried hard to ignore it, all the more so because the entire reason she was put in suspended animation - the entire reason she was sent to Earth - was to kill her baby cousin.

Her baby cousin who was now a fully grown adult and Earth's greatest champion.

"Seven goddesses?" Kara asked after a moment. "We only have one god. Rao," she said. "He was a god who ignited our sun." She looked off into the center of the temple, thinking hard. "There was a goddess, to, Cythonna. Where Rao was the sun, warmth, and heat, she was his exact opposite - ice, frostiness, and cold. Rao imprisoned her in another dimension after the Wars of Fire and Ice." She looked back at Pirogoeth. "I don't know what happened to her, but I sometimes feel as though, with her having been imprisoned, Krypton lost some of its balance."