[OPEN] Can the city forgive;

[mindbend]

Who: Wanda Maximoff & you!
Where: Training Center & Magic Training Room
When: 10/21
Rating: PG?
Summary: Slowly but steadily, Wanda is learning to trust herself and her powers as well as her teammates, but there's always room for more practice.
The Story:

[The morning of the 21st finds Wanda in the Training Center shortly after breakfast. It's still empty when she gets there, although she's sure it won't stay that way for long-- she expects people to trickle in throughout the course of the day, teammates and other Wonderland residents alike, but she likes it best when it's quiet. Over time, she's improved when it comes to working with her teammates, but she still feels safest when she has the opportunity to practice alone. She hasn't had any accidents since arriving in Wonderland, but she still doesn't quite trust herself-- or how much stronger her powers seem to be than she first realized.

She spends the better part of the morning training with the targets provided, flinging hex bolts of various sizes and strengths, testing and aiming to refine her control over distance and impact as well as aim. Steve was right when he told her that she would learn more when there was another party involved, especially when it came to having to think on her feet, but she maintains that there are certain things she can only do by herself, things that can only be properly tested and practiced in a controlled environment.

Late in the morning, one of her bolts goes rogue and damages one of the dummies she'd been practicing on more severely than she'd intended. Grimacing, she levitates the target itself from its post and detaches it, bringing it to her rather than walking over to investigate, turning it over in mid-air before she passes a hand over its body, focusing until the metal itself begins to bend itself back into shape, mending.

The rest of her training goes mostly without incident, and after lunch she dips into the Magic Training Room. While she doesn't have any lessons planned with Billy today, she's been meaning to take the time to spend an hour or two looking through some of the books in the collection he's assembled during his time in Wonderland. As it turns out, she ends up staying there for the better part of the afternoon, and can be found either perusing the shelves, investigating potion reagents, or sitting in front of the fire with one of the books she's helped herself to.]

Comments

[beatupgrass]

They remember sure, but it was nice to see that fear in the eyes of every warden when I walked into a prison.

[but he's a new man- one is hopefully not gonna get arrested.] Yeah, they did. It's sorta what happens when you save their entire planet from a freakin' genocidal maniac. Sure, they coulda given me a medal. I'd be okay with that, but nah. They took it a step further. Full pardon, so long as I never stole or committed arson or killed anybody that didn't need to be killed or stole again.

[yes, he said steal twice. because the Nova Corps are fucking douches about what actually construes "stealing"]

[mindbend]

[She might have picked up on that. It might have merited being said twice, considering how crime seems to have been a way of life for him in the past.]

Do you think you'll be able to uphold those terms?

[She gives him a lopsided smile, half-teasing.]

[beatupgrass]

No, 'cause I firmly believe if I want somethin', it should be mine, and apparently that's wrong.

[eyeroll]

[mindbend]

[Alright. That gets a laugh.]

Most laws would disagree with you, I think. I don't think Wonderland has a firm justice system in place, but you might want to be careful all the same.

[Not exactly dissuading him, at least.]

[beatupgrass]

See, Wonderland sucks the fun outta it, 'cause most things I want, the d'ast castle'll just give me. And what it won't give me, nobody else's got.