E-mail to Lorna

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To: {Iron Chef}
From: {walking stomachs}
Subject: Mmm, pie. Also an offer.

First of all, consider this your enthusiastic encouragement for the "random pie" idea. :)

. . . And to drastically change the subject . . .

The upshot of--damn, it was last week already?--is that I have a few months' worth of memories involving the only other person anybody's heard of that has your powers. And I can't exactly--it's not like Skippy saw things the way you would have, and a lot of the things he did see were stuff I've seen you do, so I don't know how much it would help. But if you want, if you think it would help you get ideas for training with your powers, this is me offering to sit down and lay out everything I can remember. You don't have to worry about it hurting me to talk about it, because it doesn't, really, I just . . . there needs to be something good to come out of all of this, and if you want, maybe helping you can be it.

Comments

Subject: They aren't random

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Or did you forget the huge national holiday in four days? I need like seven pies to make it out of this project intact, if you please so get your hand away from that pumpkin pie.

That would be...wow. Um, yeah if you don't mind talking about it, he is the only expert on my power there is and I have no qualms about turning what he knows to my own devices. I know he's done things that I can't even begin to figure out.

Re: Subject: They aren't random

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But I like pumpkin pie. I'll help you bake more?

I don't mind. Might, y'know, prefer you not ask for too much context on how I know some of the stuff I know, but really, even Doc Samson's saying I'm handling this really well.

Re: Subject: They aren't random

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Oh, very well. Have another slice.

Of course. I'm impressed by how well you're doing too. God knows I'm not that together about things that were a lot less traumatic.

Re: Subject: They aren't random

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Woo!

It's like . . . now that I know, I can stay on top of it. I was always thinking it would be overwhelming, that it was too big to deal with, and then . . . now that I have, it's just one set of memories in the bunch. I wish I didn't have them, but since I can't really get rid of them, however I can use them to help people, well, that's what I want to do.

Re: Subject: They aren't random

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Like Batman? Using your woe for Justice?

Re: Subject: They aren't random

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Right. I am the terror that flaps in the night. :)

I dunno, it's sort of like what you said about no qualms about using what he knows to help you. This is stuff I know--and hell, I paid for it, didn't I? Gonna get my money's worth somehow.

Re: Subject: They aren't random

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That is Darkwing Duck.

Oh, I absolutely understand. It's a way of reclaiming it. Owning it so that it's no longer something anyone has over you.

Re: Subject: They aren't random

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I know. But he's a Batman parody, so it still counts.

And yeah, that's exactly right. And because it--this may sound weird, I dunno--this way, it's like giving him the second chance he couldn't ask for himself. Like maybe I didn't . . . really kill him, if he's still alive a little bit in what I can do for other people.

Re: Subject: They aren't random

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If there is anyone who can bring something good out of a tragedy, I think it's you. Have I mentioned how much I admire you for all this?