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Definition: Collective Thinking
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Hospital Stay
Dyna’s knee bounced up and down in nervous tension as she sat in the Wyoming Medical Center’s emergency room waiting area. Part of that nervousness came from uncertainty over Matt’s state. Was he going to live? Had he lost too much blood? Ruby seemed optimistic. With her natural power, a form of clairvoyance, providing her a constant and perfect picture of her own biology, she knew the human body better than most. So her word held weight. The doctors hadn’t said anything one way or another. Just…-
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Home Invasion
“Do I really have to eat this?” “Most children your age would eat the whole cake if left alone with it.” “It’s so…” She smacked her tongue against the top of her mouth, pulling her lips back and wrinkling her nose. “Sweet. The word you’re looking for is sweet.” “I know what sweet is, Em.” The ten-year-old girl shoved the plate across the counter top with a scowl that didn’t quite fit on her round face. “Juice is sweet. This is…” She stuck the end of her fork…-
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History
“Sapphire,” Ruby snarled. “What are you doing here?” Dyna took a deep breath, beyond glad that Ruby was at her side. She patted at her chest, trying to get her heart to calm back down. Spooky movies, even ones she had seen before, always set her on edge. A good kind of edge, she often thought. They got her heart racing and her blood pumping. But the figure appearing out of nowhere while walking down otherwise vacant hallways of Psychodynamics caused more than just a small shock. If it had…-
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Help
Dyna sat as still as she could. Only her eyes and her knee moved, both with a nervous tension. Her eyes darted back and forth between the little girl with red hair and the woman roughly her age with green hair. The older woman was on her phone, talking quietly in the far corner of the room. She kept her other hand locked onto a small silver pocket watch. Her thumb hovered just above the winding stem. The little girl concerned Dyna just a little more than the older one. After all, it was the little girl…-
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Guilt
“I really have to protest,” Dyna said, hurrying down the hall alongside Administrators Theta and Gamma. “Id came in good faith to deliver a warning. I admit that I don’t like her much, but even still, this is an asshole thing to do.” “Id is not being imprisoned, Onyx,” Gamma said. “Her presence here is for her protection. We have not even demanded that she remove her mask despite the advantage Sapphire could give us over Tartarus.” “Has she asked to leave?” Dyna asked.…-
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Guardian Angel
“Come on,” Ruby said. Lurking just around the corner, Emerald pressed the stem of her pocket watch. Pushing her shoulders off the wall, she walked past the open office, smiled at the way Ruby pulled Dyna along, and entered into an adjacent office. After hiding in the corner and ensuring that she wouldn’t be seen in the off-chance that Ruby started down the hall in the wrong direction, she restarted time. “Shouldn’t we tell someone though?” Yes, Dyna, yes you should, Emerald thought to…-
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Goggles
“You’re probably very confused,” Dyna said, keeping her volume down to a minimum. Still in the back of the truck, driving back toward the hospital now, Dyna had to wonder if that was even a good idea. She wanted Ruby somewhere safe, but the hospital was surely surrounded with police at this point. Someone must have seen her get into the back of the large white truck with Matt, either with their own eyes or through the screen of a security camera. The Tartarus van was fairly distinctive. Having…-
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Friendly Appearances
Dyna rushed forward, moving from the concealment of a flimsy office filing cabinet to the sturdy cover of a brick wall. Flipping open her mirror, she used it not like the artifact it was, but as a regular mirror to peer around the corner. There was a bit of smoke in the air. She could taste it on her tongue. But the goggles she wore let her see through it like it wasn’t there. Seven on the left. Five on the right. The enemy was crouching and half hidden behind toppled tables and furniture. Their…-
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Frankenstein’s Monster
A bead of sweat dripped down Dyna’s forehead as she slowly slid an activated blasting cap into the plastic explosive. Prior to this, it had all been fun and games. She could jostle the C4 around as much as she wished, juggle it, and even toss it against the wall in an attempt to deform it. The shadow monster lurking around put a bit of a damper on things but at no point had she been worried about blowing herself up. Now? Dyna wanted to get this over with and get away as fast as possible. She wished…-
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Following the Cracks
“I can’t believe I missed that,” Emerald said as she raced the station wagon through the streets of Idaho Falls. “You searched while time was stopped, right?” Dyna said, keeping her eyes closed while she pinched the bridge of her nose. Sorting through foreign memories to try to figure out what was relevant to the current situation and what wasn’t hurt her brain. She had probably only gotten a small taste of what it might be like to be Sapphire and she hated it. It was no wonder he was such a…-
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