<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Name:</strong>     Nora Fries<br/><strong>Location:</strong>   Gothcorp<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>   Martian Manhunter<br/></span></span><hr/><br/><em>OOC: Will post for the physical Gothamites after some more post.</em><br/><br/>Nora keeps skating around the mental image of J'onn in a circle, pulling back to slow down and think about what he's said.<br/><br/>"<strong>I don't know, for sure - but you feel like when you are dreaming and your alarm clock goes off, so your dream tries to incorporate it into the dream. And it works, for a while, but you know - you know?</strong>" she tries to respond, finally coming to a stop next to J'onn and looking at the dream representation of Victor. Dream-Victor looks like he was just about to make progress getting up from his slip on the ice, but fails and falls flat on his face again.<br/><br/>"<strong>'In Harm's Way', as in he hasn't hurt anybody yet?</strong>" she asks, looking at Victor and smiling. He finally manages to get back up but his stance is wobbly at best.<br/><br/>"<strong>You know how when you meet someone new maybe they'll start looking like they are interesting but they usually just get more and more boring and flat when you actually get to know them? Victor was the other way around. When I first met him I couldn't help but think that he was just some geek who spent too much time in a lab. But then. . .</strong>"<br/><br/>Memories work their way into the dream, somewhere in the distance becomes more clear as a jock in a Gotham State University Letterman jacket skates toward an area of thinner ice and starts to jump up and down on the ice. There's a loud crack as the ice breaks under the jock's feet and he falls into the water. Victor doesn't hesitate, using his instability to skate toward the man and pick up momentum, then as he approaches falls down on his belly to spread out his weight and uses his skates to control his momentum.<br/><br/>"<strong>I never expected a nerd like Victor Fries to do something so. . .brave. Truth be told, I only went on that first date with him because Josh Tannerman over there was with my sorority's brother frat and it was the best way we could think of to thank Victor for saving Josh's life. But the more I got to know him - it was like he was shinning more and more as I looked at him. <br/><br/>He made these little test strips that turned purple if exposed to an alcoholic drink that had been drugged, gave piles of them to the sororities for free - we ended up exposing two rapists thanks to that invention. A mutual friend of ours admitted that she was HIV positive, some of her friends never talked to her again. Victor used his connections to get her into drug trials for a new experimental medicine, and the way research is going that might of saved her life. Then there's his work on MacGregor's Syndrome.<br/><br/>I just was thinking about one date to thank him, and then one day I realized that we'd been dating for almost six months and I was expecting him to take his glasses off and tell me he was a superhero. Does that make any sense?</strong>" she reflects, looking at Dream-Victor in action. Dream Logic puts them right at the edge of the hole in the ice and one of Victor's arms are reaching out into the cold water to pull out Josh, the jock blue with the cold already but only just starting to sink from a body too numb to swim when Victor reached in.<br/><br/>"<strong>Tell him - tell him I'm sorry, for leaving him alone in the world. And that I'll be waiting right here until he's ready to pull me out of the ice. Just ask him to promise me that we'll still be able to hold hands when he does. I don't care how cold they are.</strong>"