trans_9 | Denial? Just a little bit.

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Denial? Just a little bit.

Who: Kaya, open to all.
Where: Sensoriums
Summary: Ed not remembering her is sort of the last straw, so she's getting her aggressions out.
Warnings: Um. Are there any? TBA, I guess?

But so much for that now. Right now Kaya, who had had a pretty bad last few months, found the last straw was bringing Ed back and having him not even recognizer her had been the last straw. Now she was just standing here, around a background of water and streams, and she was moving in a combination.

First there was her own bending. Smooth, flowing each movement into the other, legs supporting the base as arms and shoulders tensed and drew forward, calling the water up and around her, making waves into developed whips, turning that into solid substances and back again.

And then, when the Bene Gesserit came into play, that slowed but accurate action became quick, deliberate fast. Her body become a putty oin increments as she geared for offensive kicks and movement, pushing her body to the limits here. There was no turning back, no moment of reflection.

At this moment, Kaya wondered what would become of her training, if they would form a base of strength and bending even she didn't fully understand yet. She would put aside those feelings of helplessness, of pain she could not do more.

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"You know," the Overlord said as he floated by helplessly on a current of water, "I'm getting really sick of this running gag."

Kaya looked up, ready to reply...when she saw the scene before her and dissolved into giggles. She would help you in a moment Overlord Zetta, but she really had to get this out of her system.

But kudos for getting her to laugh!

A moment after the Overlord drifted away, a massive explosion sent a blast of water sheeting in all directions like a comet impact. In the wake of that detonation, the embodied Overlord stepped out of a curtain of steam. They WERE in the Sensorium, after all. "Yeah, yeah, laugh it up."

"Nice entrance," she said, flicking the water away easily, "although your initial appearance was lacking. It's been awhile, Overlord!"

What could she say? She was actually really happy to see him.

"The cosmos runs on cheap comedy," he said, in the tone of one imparting an insight so obvious he felt more foolish for needing to say it. "And I've been busy. Council stuff. Life stuff."

"We could all use a little comedy every now and again," Kaya replied. "Yeah, life stuff. I hear you and Lash are doing pretty well too. So much for all that 'Overlord don't do love' you were telling me. Of course, Lash is pretty unique, so I don't know what you guys call it now."

"We call it, 'we're doing just fine and mind your own business about our terminology, Kaya.' ...which kind of makes it awkward to whisper in each other's ears. Luckily we're the sort of couple who says it with lasers and explosions." Which pleased the Overlord just fine. "What's got you in your 'I'm in a mood, so I will go train' fit?"

Kaya rolled her eyes. "If you expected me not to give you guff about it when you made such a big deal about me being wrong, you're sadly mistaken. Luckily for you, I know how to be nice about it."

Just don't expect her not to tease you.

She gritted her teeth. "Just thought I should do training is all. All that healing and time in the med bay when Howard was out of commission threw me off."

Which was only half right.

Zetta gave her a long, measured look with those pure-white eyes.

Kaya.

He knew better. Why must you even pretend?

Grr.

That's what she was thinking anyway. He didn't even have to say anything, his eyes alone did the talking. This must be what she was like, when she gave Billy the stink eye.

"I was just trying to spare you being bored by me," she said. "By now you probably think I'm just a moody teenager all the time, and really, I probably wouldn't be if I weren't on Stacy! It's just how these things work out. So now I'm getting out my aggression."

"Hey, ever since you hooked up with Nokosi you've been pretty good in the raging-emotional department, I'm pretty recharged and ready to handle it." Let it never be forgotten that Zetta is kind of a petty jerk... "So where's all this aggression coming from?"

"It's true, Nokosi does calm me," Kaya said, smiling to herself. "But things are always getting bad most of the time. I just met Ed: he and I used to train together in sword fighting, back when my swordmaster was Queen Nanashi. He didn't even know who I was, or anything about the ship. How many times is this ship going to mess with people's memories?"

Oh hey, Nanashi. There's someone he hadn't thought about in a while. That has him remembering contemplatively for a second before he answers.

"Yeah, I can see how that would bother you more than it would most people."

"How would it not? Half the time people forget others were even here, its just another day to them. Once you start getting to know people, building bonds with them, it really hurts when they're gone. That, and well, do I even need to get into it?"

"Yeah, well." Zetta crossed his arms, looked away, and then said something that he generally tried to avoid thinking about. "So it kind of works out that demons live at about a hundred to one ratio with humans, from everything I've seen. And I'm way past that already, because I'm powerful and handsome and freaking awesome." Why did he put 'handsome' in there? "So really, when it comes down to it, you're all gonna be dead in like an eyeblink to me. But the times have still been pretty good."

"Oh Zetta, I love it when you talk death to me," Kaya said mockingly, with an obvious undertone of humor, which was a good thing. "That was probably the worst cheering up speech I ever heard. Why didn't you add a few 'human sucks' here and there?"

She was grinning, of course. "Try to remember me when you blink sometime, all right?"

"Hey look, the point is, if you sit around thinking about how bad everything IS, you forget it WAS good, and so why bother doing anything?" Zetta said defensively. Stop questioning his might Overlord wisdom!

"No, I hear you, trust me!" Kaya laughed. "I guess it got me down harder than I wanted. I just don't like having these circumstances remind me my life can be rewritten on a whim, including my friendships."

"And yet who was always the one who gave me the most grief every time I explained demons, especially Overlords, don't do friendship?" he said, smirking.

"I don't feel bad about that!" Kaya said. "I DO think that Overlords should and do have friends! But I bet Overlords can deal with said friends leaving when the time comes."

Actually, it was the whole "now he doesn't even remember me" thing that bothered her.

"Overlord don't HAVE friends, so who knows?" Zetta grumbled.

"So if you don't have friends, what exactly would you call someone like me in relation to you?"

The last time she'd asked a question like this had been months ago, during which the Overlord had (forcibly) undergone a lot of personal emotional growth. So no more pat answers about a useful asset or a resource or any of that crap.

"A pain in my ass!" he said with a teasing grin.

...yeah, not THAT much emotional growth.

"Funny, but I think I'd say the same thing about you!" Kaya shot back. "So I think that maybe we are friends after all!"

"I'm only a pain because you insist on applying human standards to a demon Overlord," Zetta said with a smile and a dismissive wave of his hand.

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