Can you feel it calling in the air tonight [Closed]

[eba02]

Who: J, Ankh, and Ivan, at different points
What: The city's playing a different tune, and J is trying to figure out the details.
When: End of March, midafternoon
Where: A park in the city
Warnings: None yet?

It's a quiet day at the park, which is good - after the events of the past week, J can definitely use one of those. For now, he's got his hair pulled back and his hands in the pockets of his hoodie, just taking in the music.

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[eba02]

Nothing - nothing yet, at least - and now he's got Ivan worried. Not as planned.

"They took our friends an' families," he says. "People we care about." But that's not really what Ivan's asking, is it? "They haven't gotten to us the same way they did you, though. If they ever do, they're either gonna put us onstage with you guys, or...six feet under." That's not really an easy idea to live with, but at least it's still living.

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"So... they don't have a general way removing people's powers or memories in the city. It's more specific... maybe done when they brainwash us." Blame the fact that everyone in his band has regained a power that he thinks it's more common than the reality. Everyone in the band except Pao-Lin, but they suspect she may have something because she's from Ivan's world. They remember some of the same things.

He looks at his hands holding the shamisen and bachi. A memory steals his attention. He's a child. Other kids his age are taunting him, calling him a monster, a freak. Their parents demand the school give them list of all NEXTs and their powers enrolled, so they can remove their children from classes shared with those dangers. If only the registration bill could get passed. Couldn't they just use the technology in Abbas Prison everywhere? It'd be so much safer to control those powers.

The memory doesn't feel blurred or fuzzy in the same way like his memories in the past have been. Any fuzziness is from the age of the memory. Odd, but Ivan isn't going to focus on that change too much. He's more shocked at how easy the memory came so easily and triggered by something so tangential. Is this related to how he discovered he could fight with katana days earlier?