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"Heh. Well it's just that I can relate to the mood, hmm? Us loners need to stick together." That was a joke of course, but there was an afinity between darkness and water, and the two blondes shared at least a hairstyle in common. <br/>
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The Aqua swept from the room and Clare sat heavily on something that resembled a medieval torture machine, but apparently was designed to build muscles. The encounter had take a lot more out of her than she realised and she was shaking, her heart beating fast in her chest, pulse booming in her ears, vision blurred. <i>Deep breaths, Clare, deep breaths, </i>she told herself, and managed to get her pulse back under control.<br/>
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<i>"Mrip?"</i><br/>
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"Oh hey Tripsy. I'm okay. Just ... give me a minute, okay?"<br/>
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<i>"Rrrrrrr-Rrrrrr-Rrrrrr-Rrrrrrrrr...."</i> the cat's purr as she rubbed herself around Clare's ankles was like a tonic, the sound resonating at a frequency that is scientifically proven to ease human nerves. The3 Umbra took one last deep breath and let it out slowly. "Right oh kitty-mine, let us procede to our regular and somewhat less than exciting daily activities. <br/>
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A few moments later and she stepped through a door into a room that was dazzlingin the brilliance of the lights. Glass walls, ceiling and even the floor, covered banks of LEDs that could be made to emit any frequency of visible light at intensities up to that which would leave most people blinking away the afterimage for several days, and were all now emitting pure white light at that maximum. Clare had put on a pair of almost opaque goggles before opening the door. Trip Hazard took one look and vanished, flatly refusing to go in.<br/>
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The door closed behind her and Clare tool a deep breath and held it, concentrated on all those nasty subatomic particles that were zipping around at 3x10<span style="font-size: 80%;vertical-align:super">8​</span>m/s, and stopped them all, dead in their tracks, pulling them all into a small space in her belly.<br/>
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The room went dark.<br/>
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<i>"Mowr."</i><br/>
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How the cat got into the closed room was something Clare no longer bothered to question. Something to do with The Speed Of Dark, she had decided, some time ago.  <i>No matter how fast light travels, darkness is always there ahead of it, therefore darkness must travel faster than light. </i>That was the theory, which contained a monstrous falacy - darkness doesn't 'travel', it's not the oposite of light, but it's abscence. Just as cold is not the oposite of heat, but is the abscence of heat. Clare and Raven both had the ability to manipulate photons, that was all. They had both been surprised that no-one else could. <br/>
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<i>"Mowr?"</i><br/>
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"Hmm, yes. I did it. And I'm holding it with no ill effects. Sis, you ready?"<br/>
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