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[molecules]

[ piper's communicator clicks on with a scream. ]

— Yeah. I'm going to need a little help over here.

[ frozen — literally — in the air is a thick book piper had accidentally knocked off the table in her room. the book and a good portion of table have been affected by her power. it's ice, crystallised, and is smoking a little as ice would do. ]

Those guys who attacked the party — I got the memo that they could stop powers from working, but can they turn you evil? Because … Eh. [ she's panicking. ] This is bad. This is very, very bad.

[ she is very, very confused, and very, very concerned. the last time she had this power it was very, very bad. ]

I can't help when I'm like this!

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[small_berserker]

I can break through concrete with my fingers easily enough, so ice shouldn't be any harder. I'm sorry I can't help you with controlling your power.

[molecules]

[ piper's eyebrows raise. sorry, she'll be focusing on one piece of information that lily's allowed her to have. ]

… Concrete? You can pull concrete apart like paper?

[ she's trying to imagine it right now, using her own hands for the visual — and she just can't picture it. ]

For all the years I've been in this business, that's a new one.

[small_berserker]

Well, not like paper, but maybe more like thin brittle clay...

[It's not hard in any case. Now it's Lily's turn to raise her eyebrows.]

What business are you talking about?

[molecules]

Uh. [ sometimes piper should think before she talks. ] Not a literal business. The … [ she might as well just come out with it, huh? ] magical kind of business.

[small_berserker]

Oh, I see. That's really cool!

[Lily only realizes her choice of words might not have been the best yet.]

Um...not that this is cool. Well, it is but only temperature wise...

[molecules]

[ piper can't help but laugh. even though she's not the type to respond well to any sort of jokes about the predicaments she's found herself in, well, she needs a bit of a stress laugh. ]

Yeah. It's definitely living up to its name of being literally ice. I hope I don't wake up one day and find myself in a literal ice box.

[ that would suck. 8| ]

But if you're still okay with the whole saving my furniture thing … [ she lets it trail off. while she has no connection with this table, she really kind of wants it to stay intact. ]

[small_berserker]

Oh, that would be awful! I hope that doesn't happen to you either. Where are you? I'll come and help break off the ice.

[It's probably pretty cold in that room, too, given all the ice there. Lily wouldn't want her room to be frigid, or get soaking wet from the melting ice.]

[molecules]

Unit 704. If it's far, don't worry about it. I'm pretty damn sure this room would make a good ice-skating rink.

[ she's very positive, with or without help of de-icing her things, that her room will be an ice-skating rink by the end of the week, anyway. ]

[small_berserker]

It's not far at all. I'll be there in about fifteen to twenty minutes.

[If nothing else, she'll know when she's close based on how chilled the air is.]