“destroyed.  Looking at what’s left, specialist teams are guessing that the parahumans [Purity], [Kaiser], [Frenja], [Menja], [Lung] , [Oni Lee], [Slivver], and [Bakuda] were present at the fight last night.  Although it’s well known that the “ABB” or “Asian Bad Boys” and E88, a white supremacist group, are fundamentally opposed in their beliefs, normally there haven’t been any outright parahuman rumbles.  Now everyone is left wondering, what cause the fight to break out?  And why in the forest?”<br/><br/>Vivio turned her attention away from the television as the two anchors went on to speculate what had prompted the fight.  For better or worse, there had been no mention of corpses.  Isaac was sitting on the couch in a hoodie, eating breakfast.  A corpse rested next to him and she took a step back in surprise.  Speak of the devil and it shall appear.  Blue eyes dissected the skeleton once her initial shock died down.  It wasn’t human (thank god); instead, it was the coyote from last night, only lacking flesh now.  She considered making a tactless comment about the color blue (and tapping at her eye) but decided against it.  She wasn’t up for it right now.  Instead, she muttered a<span style="color: deepskyblue">“Thanks”</span>and headed for the kitchen.<br/><br/>She smiled awkwardly at Mr. Payne (?) but accepted the plate of bacon and toast with another expression of gratitude.  Looking between the older male and her classmate, she decided retreating from the stranger was the better course of action.  The blonde took a seat on the armchair, rested her plate on the arm, and picked up a piece of toast.  The TV had now switched to commercials.  No easy out there.  Her eyes wandered the room but she couldn’t think of any way to avoid the metaphorical elephant in the room.<br/><br/><span style="color: deepskyblue">“So…  zombies, huh?”</span>She finally asked, taking a bite of her toast so she didn’t have to say anything more.  Her eyes looked between her classmate and the corpse by his knee.  That was honestly kind of creepy.  Her gaze slid desperately to the TV, still commercials, and then around the room again.  God, she wished she was anywhere but here.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">-------\\-------</div><br/><br/>Rune hummed happily, bouncing into the room.  “Hello everyone!”  She cheered, ignoring the glare Hookwolf was sending her for being happy.  (He was such a downer!)  She had<span style="font-style: italic">very</span>good news.  Victor smiled obligingly and prompted her like she wanted: “Good afternoon, Rune.  What has you in such a happy mood?”<br/><br/>Her grin spread over her face, threatening to overtake it.  “I was reviewing the cameras Oversight had placed all over the forest and I’m 99% sure! Slivver is dead!”<br/><br/>She frowned when her words were met with almost no response.  That had been a big piece of news!  Othala and Victor were just smiling politely but clearly didn’t seem impressed.  Crusader sighed and rolled his eyes, muttering a “whoop dee doo” under his breath.<br/><br/>“Hey!”  She stamped her foot on the ground irritably, “That means the ABB has one less parahuman!”<br/><br/>“So?  Besides Lungs, they’re all useless anyways.  Great, four went down to three.  Compared to us, it’s still miniscule.”<br/><br/>Rune pouted and crossed her arms with a huff.  “Fine!  I have more news!”  She spat, determined to get back at Crusader for his lack of response.  “I also saw two new parahumans!”  This actually garnered a response and she bit back her urge to smile triumphantly.  “Annnndddd, they’re both white!  One had a corpse running around and the other snapped and things went BOOM!”  Her arms exploded outwards, mimicking the explosion she’d seen.  “I don’t think Bakuda was there at all!  It was just the newbie.  They look like a pair, but they were running from Slivver before BOOM occurred.  So we might get two for one.”<br/><br/>She sneered at Crusader, resisting the urge to pull her eyelid down and stick out her tongue.  That’s what he got for disparaging her news!  BOOM was always good and reanimating the dead would have<span style="font-style: italic">many</span>uses.  Just wait until she told Kaiser!