young_swimmer:

Cait sat in a lotus position on the beach with her eyes closed. The waves washed up on the shore and soaked her, but it didn't register in her mind. Not that she ever minded being wet. She did get strength from the water and today she needed all of her strength and more, physical and mental.

Ty was starting an interview at Star Labs for a position, something he had worked so hard for, and Cait was trying to help keep him centered enough to get through it. The bond that they usually shared was stronger than it had ever been and Cait was still struggling. They were linked so strongly that she could almost hear, smell, see and feel everything he was experiencing. She had never been so far into some other living being's mind before. She could almost imagine the headache that would come after this.

"You're doing fine." Her mental 'voice' was as soothing as she could make it and she exerted as much control as she could through the link. "We can do this."

bobblehead:

Pippi may have joined the East team to stick with Mitzi, but she still visits when she can. After all, Iris remains her new bestest friend, and she has to visit King Triton now and then. Besides, much as she adores Dinah and Mitzi (occasionally to Dinah's chagrin), Cait is a <i>real</i> princess, so Pippi has to visit to work on quietly picking up princess pointers, just in case she stumbles into a Disney plotline.

She bounces in through the door, waving a credit card. "Alright, shopping time!"

kinda_dense:

So, with school starting in less than a couple weeks, Charlotte was on the UC Berkley campus, getting the lay of the land.  Good school, by all reckoning, far enough away from home to be reasonable, but not so bad she couldn't pop back there (literally) within a couple of jumps (or one long one if she didn't care where she landed when she popped back), with a good program in astrophysics too.  Pretty much perfect.  Not to mention it was within easy distance of being able to hang out with Iris when she was at that Tower of hers.

Not that Charlotte has any interest in being a super-hero.  Did she have powers?  Yes.  But absolutely nobody needed to see her in spandex and she probably couldn't throw a proper punch if her life depended on it.  Still, always good to know people in the business, she supposed, just in case.

Now, however, her one real weakness was coming into play:  maps.   She had successfully managed to buy her books for the fall semester, she was reasonably certain she knew where she was on the map.  But now, it was nearing lunchtime, and she'd be damned if she could figure out where the nearest place to grab lunch was.  And yes, she could probably teleport herself back towards town, but that a) really was cheating and b) enough of a distance away that she couldn't be certain she wouldn't wind up in on-coming traffic.

She gave the map a glare.