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Anders ([personal profile] circlejerked) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2016-08-09 08:55 pm

crowded streets are cleared away, one by one

Who: Anders ([personal profile] circlejerked) and Barry Allen ([personal profile] accelerate).
Where: Tea room to start. (Pity party at the bar TBD.)
When: Aug. 9th.
Rating: PG for now?
Summary: Thanks to the depowering, a mage loses his magic and a speedster loses his speed. Being normal sucks, man. It just sucks.
The Story:



Oh, come on. Why aren't you working?

[For a hot second, Anders had been overjoyed when the brainwashing of the last few days' had broken. A sure sign the event's power was starting to wan, he'd thought. The words "thank the Maker, it's over!" might have been used. Wrong. He should've known the worst was yet to come.]

Work. Come on, work. Pretty please? I know you want to work, so just do it. Please? For me?

[Who is Anders begging with such heartfelt wheedling? It's more of a what. Sitting in front of him on one of the tea room's tables is a glass of water. More specifically, he's trying to coax his mana, which he's been trying to do for the past hour.

Freeze the water. It's a simple manipulation of the elements, a trick any child with magical aptitude could do. Freeze the water. Face scrunched in concentration, Anders leans in, close enough to see his distorted reflection in the glass.

He taps it with a finger. The water sloshes, mocking him.]


Augh!

[Throwing himself back in his chair, he puts his arm over his eyes with a groan of absolute frustration. The empty, unresponsive core of mana somewhere deep in his being hadn't scared him... for maybe the first fifteen minutes. Now it's starting to. Now he's starting to wonder if he's going to be stuck with this hollowed out feeling forever.]

accelerate: ⚡ FLASH. (Default)

[personal profile] accelerate 2016-12-03 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ barry doesn't bristle, but his entire aura seems to deflate. he doesn't look at anders, picking up his glass to hold it in his hand before he tips it back. this is what it should look like to drown your sorrows, except barry's never had the chance to do so since waking from his coma. he's never actually tried to cope with liquor before. ]

You could say that.

[ god, it still burns a little, but he thinks he's getting used to it — or maybe the focus on mom and dad has him distracted by the way it coats itself thickly along his throat and wants to literally set it on fire. ]

Usually I just run until I can't. It's free; alcohol usually isn't.