Bad Dreams Can't Hurt Me [Ehefra, Candice]

It was hard to process all the different emotions and feelings that came from all these rolling revelations. So Ehefra was out there fighting lunatics on beaches too. And what was Candi doing whilst all this was going on? Sat in a boardroom discussing percentages and scales with a bunch of faces in suits? It all felt so meaningless really. Like, sure, she was doing things and helping out every now and then, but there was more she could be doing, right? Ugh, it was all so much simpler when nothing else mattered to her.

Candi wriggled and writhed in the embrace, unable to really vent her frustration because she was also just glad that Ehefra was alright. It was just like with Giselle. Okay maybe it wasn't that bad, but she felt just as useless. Whywhywhywhywhy?!

"Oh, right, in Miami? You didn't tell me that was a combat mission. I... I didn't know you went on combat missions. I thought you were in the support division or whatever."

She looked down at the rest of Ehefra, trying to get some gauge on her injuries and her overall state of being. Like, this wasn't just a little bit of rough and tumble. The girl like couldn't walk without surgery or whatever, but she'd pulled through. Was this clown just an average run-of-the-mill demon? Didn't seem like the type to just attack a city solo, so it must have been way more powerful. How come she kept getting involved with really cool, and really dangerous people? And like, they didn't talk about it until it was forced to come out.

But she was just as guilty of that as they were. It's not like she'd talked her through what the Thunderqueen was and that whole ordeal. She hadn't ever told anyone about that. At first, it was because who would have really believed her, but now it was like she wanted to hide it. Was all this leading to the revelation that she, Candice Catnipp, was a coward? That wasn't exactly the outro she wanted.

"Um. I'm glad you're okay, like, most of you anyway. I suppose you'll be pretty busy once you're out of here too, feels like the whole world's being turned on its head right now. Might as well make the most of the time off, yeah?"

Those emerald eyes finally looked down at Ehefra's own, leaning over her on the bed as Ehefra lay there. She blushed again, a flash of red now layering over the pink.

"Yeah. I know you're special, Heff."

Her lips curled into a wry smile, and she could have just kissed her right there and then, but there was a little more she wanted to add as she watched that whole display with Ehefra doing something to her leg and then moving it. There'd been a moment when this little meeting might have gone a very different way, but Candi's brain simply flicked from one thing to another.

"But you're a little bit crazier than I thought, and I guess that's saying something. Threw yourself into this fight and didn't back down even when he messed up your legs like that. It is kinda hot."

Candi realised she was genuinely interested in how Quincy magic worked. There was an entire world that she hadn't explored and yet lingering at her fingertips, and she had a bunch of people already on the inside. Though Giselle's powers were all weird and blood-based as far as she could tell, and that was a little beyond her mortal comprehension, what Ehefra did was more like actual real-life magic. And that was coming from the girl who could summon lightning to her fingertips.

It wasn't like she really understood her own power either. It was something that had been forced upon her, forced into her, and now she could use it. There was no complexity, no nuance, just a child playing with her toys. How would she accomplish what Ehefra just had? Could she? If she willed the Thunderbolt into those busted-up legs could she get it to fix her? Definitely a little too dangerous to try right now, maybe ever, but the idea was now there to explore just a little.

"How do you like... Do all that? Is it something you were born with or did you work really hard to make it work like that? I've seen a lot of Quincy. You're all doing different things. Just trying to understand a little of how that works, I guess?"

"Uh huh~. I do keep telling ya."

Candi pressed her face a little closer still, wanting to just savour the moment where Ehefra didn't quite know what was going on. But, as promised, she relented. Just a few teasing breaths against her lips before she sought to retreat. Not that she would be opposed were Ehefra to strike from below, the option was certainly there for a little bit of something.

"So you just interface with it by like... pretending to code? Or do you like actually code? Still, I think that's kinda like what I do but also different. Well, that sounds a little silly but like, I can manipulate stuff in the air too. But nothing fancy like all your programming though, I just kinda make electricity?"

She sat back a little watching the demonstration from Beeps with a little chuckle, a little relieved to see that the little robot was still around, and then danced a little mote of electricity across her fingertips to demonstrate her own point. Bouncing from one finger to the next before leaping off the index finger and dispersing into nothing again. It was all interesting in its own way, and right now Candi was genuinely engaged.

Having been following along quite contentedly, Candi bristled a little at the sight of Cresimir. He looked pretty fucking creepy even on the tiny hologram display, she had to admit. But then it changed to a winged version of Ehefra looking all jazzy and stuff. She liked that a bit more, but it was also a little creepy in the abstract.

"You research abilities? So like anything or just specifically Quincy stuff?"

It was certainly abundantly clear who Candice was interested in researching, as subtle as she was, but it might be interesting for Ehefra too. She was quite the specimen after all. But she was also volunteering to be tested and judged and all that icky stuff. That was weird too. A year ago, she definitely wouldn't have given the remotest consideration to putting herself out there like that. She really was going above and beyond to try to take Ehefra's mind off whatever had her a little spooked.

"I do kinda like it when you talk technical though. Side projects and special modifications and all that stuff. You're hot when you're getting all passionate."

A hand danced across that puffed-out chest, slowly crawling upwards to begin pulling at a rogue strand of Ehefra's hair. Candi leaned in again, this time she wasn't messing around.

"Do you have to call it 'test subject', that makes it weird for me. But alright, sure, I'll bite. Just for you, Heff."

It took a little bit of internal coercion, and she certainly hadn't made any commitments that she couldn't go back on, but Candice was actually down to see what came out of some proper studying. Maybe it was nothing, maybe she just fried some sensors and called it a day or something actually fun came out of it. Speaking of fun, she had just about settled into that kiss when Beeps started going off and they were awkwardly forced apart.

"Yeah, you're right, sorry. I shouldn't be giving you a heart attack before you go into surgery. Though, if ever you were going to have one..."

Smirking again, she leaned in to plant one more kiss upon Ehefra's lips. A little something for her to remember when she was going under, or something like that.

"I'll see you when you're back, alright?"