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[Tawny Mitchell]

Tawny let out a long yawn as she spun in a 180 Ollie, landed on the curved back of the park bench and ground down its length to land at the other end. It was likely that to the outside observer she probably looked like a cocky little shit just showing off her moves but a closer look would have told even the casual watcher that the girl was tired. She supposed a lot of people wouldn't think that strange for a daughter of Somnia but for Tawny there was a reason and it wasn't a good one.

Sleep? Yeah she didn't usually have a hard time getting it but it was the type of sleep the girl was getting that was causing the trouble. When your dreams carried all kinds of troubling messages from the god of dreams it wasn't a good situation. Most nights when the dream messages came Tawny woke up feeling even more tired and stressed than she was when she had gone to bed. The fact that the messages had been coming more and more frequently didn't help matters either. Tawny didn't know what had made her dad go all "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi" on her but she needed to find a solution and fast.

For now though there wasn't really much she could do about it. Fortunately she could deal with a little sleep deprivation. Caffeine was a wonderful thing and cured a whole host of problems. So long as she could totally crush a Red Bull or two here and there she thought she could keep it from interfering with her life. Or at least that's what she thought until she opened her eyes and saw herself rolling right towards someone on the street. "Woah heads up! Coming through!" She called in warning as she did some quick evasive maneuvers to avoid a head long crash.

[Danielle Lane]

Danielle just finished another practice at the ice skating rink. She was frustrated with herself since she couldn't polish up her moves just right. Her couch said she was doing an excellent job and she was up there with the professionals. However, Danielle couldn't settle for excellent. She wanted perfection. However, she couldn't stay at the rink forever. Her couch kicked her out so she didn't risk hurting herself. Disgruntled, she packed up her stuff and headed out.

Even though she couldn't practice physically, Danielle could still practice mentally. She pulled her ipod out of her bag and stuck her earbuds into her ear. She turned it on to the song she was doing her routine to. It was a soft, classical song, but Danielle loved it. Once she was ready she started walking back to camp. She really wasn't paying attention much as she walked. In her head, her moves were perfect, but she knew she wasn't perfect. Yet.

Just as she rounded the corner, she looked down at her ipod to restart the song when she heard screaming. Her head bolted up to see a girl on a skateboard barreling straight towards her. Danielle jumped to the side as the girl managed to avoid the collision. She paused her song as she pulled an earbud out. “Are you okay?” she asked as she felt her heart beating in her head.

[Tawny Mitchell]

Luckily the two girls saw each other in time and reacted quickly enough. Tawny for her part did an admirable job of changing her course in the nick of time narrowly avoiding the girl as she stepped out of her path. It was a tense second or two with the skateboarder teetering and nearly going for a fall. Tawny was a better skater than that however and she saved it. Regaining her balance she spun her board around and brought herself to a stop on two wheels a short distance away.

The other girl was alright and that was good. She didn't look mad either and that was better. "Oh hey I'm cool." She said with a slight smile. There was no sign of sleep now. Tawny was awake and happy she didn't run this poor girl down. "Sorry bout that. I guess I'm not so good at sleep skating yet." Tawny picked up her board and walked over to the girl. "What about you? Didn't swipe you on the way past did I?" The girl looked alright but you never could be sure. In any case it was good to check on her.

[Danielle Lane]

Danielle just stood there as she watched the girl gain much better control of her skateboard and spun back around to face her. She paused her ipod and took the other earbud out. There was no way she was going to work on her mental practicing. And the girl didn't look like she was hurt and she did confirm that verbally. But there was one thing that Danielle really didn't quite get.

"Sleep skating?" she asked as she raised her eyebrows before tucking her ipod into her bag and shaking her head. "Nah, you didn't get me. I'm pretty quick on my feet and you can handle your board pretty well." She looked up from her bag before she smiled at the girl. "I don't think I've seen you around camp before. I'm Danielle."

[Tawny Mitchell]

Tawny chuckled. “It’s a long story.” She said with a smile. There were some things that you just didn’t go into when you were meeting someone for the first time. The fact that you were slowly becoming an insomniac because you’re godly father was sending you dream messages was definitely one of those things. There just really was no easy way to explain what she had been going through the past couple of days and it was easier just to blow it off.

“Pretty fancy footwork though. I’m impressed. Definitely got some quick reflexes there.” It had been pretty quick work on both of their parts. Tawny didn’t know who this girl was but she couldn’t argue with how fast she had moved. “Eh, I get around. Don’t usually go running people over though. That’s a new one. I’m Tawny by the way.”

[Danielle Lane]

Danielle raised her eyebrows when the girl said it was a long story. She hoped that sleep skateboarding was a very long story and, hopefully, a slightly less dangerous one. But she had proven that she could hold her own, which was a good thing, otherwise, they would have both ended up in the Sick Bay. But she thought Danielle had fancy footwork and that made her smile a bit. She nodded her head slightly as she reached up to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear.

"I try to be," she said with a slight smirk. "I do figure skating so I have to be pretty quick to do all those jumps and turns and stuff." But she didn't want to start bragging right away, especially since she barely knew this girl. But the girl had a name and it was Tawny. "Well, it's nice to meet you," she said before she nodded her head to the cafe they were standing in front of. "Do you want to grab something with me? I don't know about you, but near-death experiences make me hungry."

[Tawny Mitchell]

"A figure skater huh? That's pretty sick. I guess you really do know how to handle yourself." Tawny had never tried ice skating. She preferred to be on a board whether on the street, the water or on the ski slopes. Still, that didn't mean she couldn't respect the sport. Who knew, in another life she might have been an ice skater instead of a skateboarder. "But yeah good to meet you too. Always nice to run into someone else who has mad skills. Well...not literally that is."

Danielle was asking her to grab a bite though and yeah Tawny could dig it. She didn't know about near death experiences but good food was generally never a bad idea. Fortunately they had stopped right by a restaurant and if that wasn't a sign she didn't know what was. "Yeah I could totally do some food right now." She said with a chuckle and added with a thought 'Maybe a little more caffeine too.' Tawny led the way inside though. The girl was thin as a rail but she didn't mess around when food was involved. "So I guess you practice down at the ice rink huh? Never tried it but I bet it'd be pretty sweet if they could find a way to ice down a half pipe in there."

[Danielle Lane]

"I do practice in there quite a bit." Danielle went towards the cafe/restaurant place before she paused. "Ice down a half pipe?" Danielle asked as she looked over at Tawny as she thought about it for a moment. "It really shouldn't be too hard, really. I mean, I never have used my powers that way before, so I don't know how complicated it might be, but I could probably wrangle my brother into it as well..." She shrugged after a moment. "It really shouldn't be that hard, honestly. I don't know why they haven't done one yet, since that rink is supposedly to be all things you'd find in the Winter Olympics." She laughed a bit as she shook her head. "And I'm rambling. I guess you found like the one thing that I can't shut up about." She opened the door and allowed Tawny to go in first. "After you."

[Tawny Mitchell]

"Woah hold up." She said as Danielle talked about using her powers to ice down a half pipe. "You've got some ice powers? That's pretty sweet. I've got to say though, if you and your brother iced down a half pipe like you said I would be first in line to give it a try. While I've never tried skating my mom is a pro snowboarder which I guess means I sort of grew up on the slopes." Tawny chuckled. Who would have thought he would have ran into a ice god's daughter who she could actually talk some interesting sports with and yet here she was about to eat lunch with one.

Tawny really didn't mind the rambling. She did it herself sometimes when she got excited about something. That's what Danielle seemed like now and Tawny could understand. It was alright. Danielle seemed pretty cool and it was easy to talk to her as well. Hopefully that would continue. "Thanks." She said as she got in line first and proceeded to order her food as well as grabbing one of those big cans of Red Bull while she was at it. After she was done she turned back to the other girl and continued. "Hey don't worry about it. I can understand when you get excited and have something to say. I mean I'm just excited I kinda found someone who gets me ya know?"

[Danielle Lane]

“Yeah,” Danielle said with a bit of a smile. “I have ice powers, it’s one of the perks of daughter of Chione.” But she wondered if Drake would be down for the idea or if she'd have to drag him in there. She knew he didn't like going into the ice rink unless he had to. But she thought this was a pretty noble reason. Besides, Tawny seemed pretty cool. “Then I think we can make you a half pipe,” she did with a bit of a chuckle when Tawny mentioned how she grew up.

But she ordered her food before she chuckled and turned back to Tawny. “And finding someone who gets you is very rare in the legion. Trust me, I would know. I think my brother gets me, but he's also my twin, so he's kind of required with that whole twin connection thing.”

[Tawny Mitchell]

"Really?" Tawny said with a laugh. "That's pretty awesome. Guess those ice powers can be pretty handy when you get down to it." All in all Tawny was pretty content with dream powers herself but ice would definitely be a close second. Her mom would have probably flipped over them for sure but Somnia had been the man of her dreams, literally. "Say, being a daughter of Chione have you ever tried snowboarding? I'd have to get you there if you spent all that time making something for me to play on."

Tawny picked up her food and waited for Danielle to join her. She was right in saying that tt was pretty rare to find someone who was on the level when it came to the legion. People were either too strict or too crazy and while she generally got along with the crazier folks more than the strict ones Tawny found herself sitting somewhere in the middle more often than not. She wasn't the type who wanted to go out and party all the time but she wasn't walking around with a stick stuck up her butt either. That's why it was nice to sit down and grab a bite with someone who was just kind of chill. Granted she still didn't know much about Danielle but the girl didn't seem too crazy and hey, she had a twin too and the whole twin thing was pretty cool. "So you've got a twin huh? Any psychic twin powers I should know about? The closest thing I've got is the power to make some pretty gnarly dreams but that comes in handy too every once in a while."

[Danielle Lane]

"I haven't tried snowboarding," Danielle said as she shook her head and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her her. "I've mostly stuck with figure skating... plus I'm a little afraid of breaking something... and this is coming from the girl who has to balance on one foot on a blade." She laughed to herself before she said, "But I'll give it a shot once I get it made for you. I just can't promise that I'll be any good at it."

Danielle waited a moment or two before she grabbed her food and turned back to Tawny as she shrugged. "It's really nothing too crazy," she said with a bit of a smirk. "But we can, like, finish each other's sentences and we always know what the other is thinking. I guess really normal stuff people expect out of twins. It's not like we're the Wonder Twins and transform into anything cool."

[Tawny Mitchell]

Tawny had hurt herself more times than she could remember trying some of her mom’s tricks but that was the risk you took sometimes. You fall down and then you get back up again and try to get it right the next time. Besides, if you never tried you never got to do anything cool. At least that was Tawny’s philosophy. Breaking bones wasn’t fun but she didn’t think Danielle had much to worry about. Tawny didn’t want to scare her on her first time on a board after all. “Nah I’ve got your back. I won’t have you doing anything too crazy and snowboarding is no more dangerous than anything else you could do when it comes down to it.”

Tawny led them over to a table and had a grabbed a seat so that they could eat. She didn’t have a twin so she didn’t know what it was like to have someone on the same wavelength all the time like that but she could imagine it was pretty cool. “Guess we don’t get that lucky. One set of super powers is all they give us. Still, it’d definitely be different to have somebody in your head like that. Does he do the ice skating thing too?”

[Danielle Lane]

Danielle was quite lucky that she hadn't broken anything while figure skating and she didn't want to be sidelined because of another sport. But she oddly trusted Tawny, even if she almost was ran over with a skateboard. But the way she was able to handle herself last minute, maybe things wouldn't be so bad after all. "I guess I can give it a shot," she said with a bit of a shrug. "I guess I need to try out my creation after all that effort into it."

She followed Tawny towards a table before she sat down and started digging into the salad she had ordered. She chuckled as she shook her head. "Nah, Drake doesn't do the figure skating thing. He's into curling, which is a weird sport in itself." She looked up at Tawny as she raised an eyebrow at her. "Have you heard of it? It involves rocks and brooms. It's quite weird, but he enjoys it enough."

[Tawny Mitchell]

"That's the spirit." Tawny said with a chuckle. "Gotta at least try it once or you don't know what you're missing." For Tawny one of life's great joys was catching some great air off the half pipe. While she preferred doing her tricks on a skateboard she could still respect her mom's sport and other sports like ice skating too. All had their thrills and you couldn't be afraid to try them just because you had never tried them before.

"Ah yeah I saw that stuff the last time the winter Olympics was on." Tawny laughed. "It looked like a bunch of gnarly middle aged dudes sliding around on the ice. Pretty funny stuff if you ask me but I guess old guys need to get in on the Olympic action too." She shook her head and took a bite of her burger. "So is that what it is? You guys some kind of super family training for the Olympics or something? It'd be pretty cool to test your skills out on that kind of stage."