Hello !
As I start this new chapter on January 13th (yeah, I know, delay, delay, delay… blame it on my effing workload, eh !) , I'm still sad and still find it hard to admit it…
He was my second favourite musician, one of my top artists, a man I really revered and one of the few people in Music's realm I deemed worth of the term 'genius'…
I will really miss him… we all will… but if his body disappears, his memory and his music never will : they shall exist eternally within our memories, hearts… and ears, naturally !
Thank you with all my heart, Mr Bowie ! And welcome back to the stars, where you initially came from… dear Stardust ! Respect forever.
Yes, I'm really sad that David Robert Jones (his real name) left us…
But he will live for eternity through all his songs and film parts, so he won't completely die for us all. And I'm going to purchase THE NEXT DAY and BLACKSTAR real soon. I kind of owe him that, somehow…
I hope you all are well, and in case there are Bowie fans in the audience… I tip my hat at them !
Okay, time to continue this now long-delayed story…
Enjoy !
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(NINE)_ A VISIT TO NEVERMORE _
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Rebuilding a body…
What a long, complex, demanding task…
The DNA is indeed of unbelievable intricacy, and it took four hours for the full process of Raven's reconstitution to be completed.
Four hours during which the eight emoticlones used the entirety of their power to help their Master be « born to life again ». And Raven herself did focus all her energy as well to reach that goal, because she refused to let her emotions do it all : she had to dedicate her fair share of efforts to her « recomposition ».
Four hours may not seem that long… but when you spend them emptying yourself from all your energy… that's another story !
As soon as Raven's organism got its finishing touch, the empath opened her eyes… and the exhaustion that had been building up inside of her fully took effect, imprisoning her organism in a huge wave of tiredness and unexpectedly wearing her out completely in only a few seconds.
The drained half-demon collapsed to the ground of her inner universe, unable to control the suddenly heavy mass of her body.
But she didn't experience this brisk fall on her own : all of her eight emoticlones crashed to the ground as well ! They were just as terribly tired as their owner !
The violet-haired Titan turned around to take a look at her fallen emotions, breathing slowly and deeply, visibly exhausted.
"Are you… alright... girls ?" she said with effort, asking it to all of them yet staring only at Knowledge, as she was their natural representative.
"We are… just… drained… Master… just like you… because we granted… so much energy… for your organism's recomposition… and that energy loss… thus made us… weak… that's why we fell… like you…"
Raven could see that Knowledge was panting, as were the other seven.
"But… it doesn't matter… that we are so weak…" slowly continued Knowledge "…because… what matters… is that… we did it for you… to save you… and saving you… is the most important… thing to do… so if we have… to suffer for that… then so be it… we are happy… that you can… benefit from our efforts… so no matter… the side effects…as long as we've… reached our goal…"
Raven rested for a moment, her eyes staring straight into Knowledge's, who stared back at her, then she decided that she should teleport to her room, on her bed, to rest for a while and thus recuperate.
She slowly moved, trying to sit up…
…but she immediately felt her head spin !
Oh gosh, it's definitely more serious than I thought…!
"Master ! What is… wrong ?"
Love's tired voice seemed to come from very far away…
"I… I'm feeling…"
But Raven couldn't finish her sentence : dizziness claimed her whole organism and engulfed her in a black whirlpool of nothingness, as her body collapsed, unconscious…
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"I can't believe he realized about the tracking device ! I mean, that thing is so small… how the heck did he find out about it ?" half-screamed Cyborg, who was always upset when technology was challenged or even outdone by the mind.
"Perhaps he has some extra-sensory powers which enable him to detect any outer element on his outfit…" suggested Chris.
"That or maybe the tracking device fell by itself, who knows…?" proposed Danny.
"How could it have ?" asked the robotic teenager.
"Hum… maybe it wasn't fixed well enough on the bad guy's body…"
"Those tracking devices have the highest fixing potential in hi-tech gear… therefore is it unlikely that it would have fallen like that !" informed Robin.
"Man, how I hate it when technology doesn't work as expected !" again complained Cyborg.
"Dude, you've been whining over it enough ! Give it a rest !" criticized Beast Boy.
"But you know how Friend Cyborg is so fond of technology, do you not, Friend Beast Boy ? So it is logical that he is frustrated about the unsuccess of the technological trick…" said Startfire, out of empathy.
(A/N : here, the word 'unsuccess' is made up by Starfire, as she isn't aware it doesn't exist in English… it's not me using by mistake a non-existent word ! Just saying…)
"Personally, I would be just as unpleased if one of my Rhapsodian tricks didn't work. So I understand how Cyborg feels…" admitted Cathy.
"And I do sympathize with you as well !" added Jinx.
"Thanks, girls !" said the large Titan, feeling a tad better from seeing all that support around him.
"Don't mention it !" replied the pink-haired heroine. "And looks like the girls have more solidarity and empathy than the boys, mmmmh ?"
She had crossed her arms and was smiling in a teasing way, not looking at her two "adversaries"… but knowing they were currently frowning at her.
"Whatever…" muttered the spike-haired teenager.
"Yeah, what he said…" backed up the green boy.
Jinx didn't breath a word, settling for a mere mocking snort.
"Okay, okay. We're now back at the Tower. Time to get some rest, but also to go see what becomes of Raven. To know how things are going for her, if she found the solution and how it's working…" announced Boy Wonder.
"I will go find her, if you don't mind…" softly proposed Sam.
"And I would like to accompany Sam…" said Jinx, before turning to the one involved and finishing her utterance : "…if that's okay with you, naturally."
The African-American nodded and looked at Robin for approval.
"Alright, you two go find her and see how she is !" agreed the Titan leader.
A few seconds later, Sam and Jinx were walking side by side in the corridor leading to the rooms, with the MBC leader back in her regular clothes.
"Do you think she will have succeeded ?" asked the black teen.
"Difficult to say…" admitted the grey teen. "But you know, Raven has many resources, and an immense knowledge in magic and spells, so her powers shouldn't be underestimated…"
"Oh, I sure won't ever underestimate her. If anything, I rather greatly value her magical skills. She does impress me. Each one of us has his or her own powers or weapons, but Raven is definitely the one I find most fascinating !"
Jinx nodded.
"Yeah, I had understood that you were attracted to her."
Then the pink witch realized the misleading nature of that last expression and hurriedly added : "Hum, attracted to her as a friend, I mean… as someone nice and interesting, that's all…"
The usually cheeky teen was feeling slightly uneasy, but Sam's reaction reassured her.
"Sure, I know. I had understood it that way." said the golden-eyed female after laughing.
They soon arrived in front of Raven's room.
Sam looked at Jinx, not sure about who should knock.
"Go ahead !" simply said the grey one with an inviting hand motion towards the door.
The black one took a deep breath, slowly raised her hand, curled it in a fist and hit the cold metal twice.
Silence welcomed them.
Sam knocked again, but thrice, this time.
Still no answer.
That worrying silence couldn't be good.
The yellow member turned to the former criminal, visually sharing her concern about Raven not reacting.
"I don't like it neither. Let's open it and check !" decided the girl with the vertical pupils.
They weren't that surprised to find a deserted room, given the precedent silence.
"So she went away to perform her spell ?" asked Sam.
"Most certainly. I thought, like you, that she would do it in her room, but I can see I was wrong…" replied Jinx.
Then the alien hunter noticed something on the bed and, after stepping closer, leaned forward to grab it.
Jinx turned her head just in time to see Sam gaze into the depths of Raven's magical mirror.
"NO !" she screamed, starting towards the African-American.
But "too late is too late" : a black mass had filled the mirror… with two crimson slits right in the center, peering straight into the black female's golden eyes !
And just as the pink-haired girl reached for her friend, black tentacles sprang out of the cold flat surface and wrapped in no time around the body of the alien buster.
Jinx tried to pull Sam backwards, but the magical hold was far too powerful.
And a second later, other tentacles rushed out of the mirror and imprisoned Jinx's body as well.
"Dammit ! We're toast !" yelled the former H.I.V.E. student as she realized that even her hexes couldn't give her the upper hand over their assailant.
"But what are these things ?" screamed Sam, who for once lost her legendary self-control and reluctantly allowed panic to take over in her body and mind.
"I'll explain you lateeeeeer…"
The tentacles had just dragged the teens into the unfathomable depths of Raven's inner universe !
Black vanished from the surface of the mirror, and the later fell back onto the bed… an apparently common object that had become, in a few dramatic seconds, a boundless prison…
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Sam got up from the ground and walked over to Jinx, who was just pushing herself up.
"Did I do anything wrong when grabbing that mirror ? I didn't know that it would yield… that !"
"It's okay, Sam. You couldn't have guessed that it was in fact a magical portal, and that you shouldn't look in it. It's not your fault."
But that didn't seem to make her interlocutor any better.
"Yeah, but if I hadn't done it, we would have been brought here… I feel really bad about doing it…"
"Easy, Sam. I told you that it wasn't a big deal, because you didn't know. Anything's forgivable if one isn't aware of the dangers. So don't feel that sorry, don't blame yourself about that… okidoki ?"
That word made Sam look up and meet the pink gaze. Doing so, she noticed that the hex master was smiling at her.
"Okidoki ?" she asked.
"Okidoki. It's a variation of 'okay'. I made it up, because ya know… I sometimes end up getting bored to always behave always the same and say the same things…" explained the ex-thief, still smiling.
Sam smiled back, but after a few seconds, regained her serious composure.
"So… where are we exactly, here ?" she inquired.
There were in an orchard, with a hill close-by.
"This is Raven's inner world. Her mind, if you prefer. It's called 'Nevermore' and harbours eight emotions which have the exact same appearance as Raven, except that each one has an outfit of different colour. These emotions are called 'emoticlones' because they are emotional clones of Raven. Each one has her own territory in Nevermore."
Sam was doing her best to absorb all these bits of information and understand it on the spot, to avoid having to ask Jinx to explain it again.
"So… you're saying that those… hum… emoticlones look exactly like Raven ? They are grey-skinned teens with cloaks, leotards and boots, and each one has her own clothes colour… did I get it alright ?"
The other girl nodded.
"Pretty much. And now, we will have to find one of them to ask her to help us outta here. But we must be careful not to find the bad emoticlone…"
"The bad emoticlone ?"
"Yup. You see, Sam, while almost all of those emotions are nice, one of them, called Rage, is hostile, because she embodies Raven's anger, and thus is constantly angry. And should we step into her domain by inadvertence…"
Jinx left her sentence incomplete, but Sam could easily complete it in her mind…
"So what do we do exactly, now ?" asked the MBC fighter.
"I propose we walk to the top of that hill over there and try to visually locate an emoticlone. I don't know on which emoticlone's domain we are right now, but it definitely isn't Rage's : hers is dark and has a volcano in the middle, Raven told me once. So I don't know who lives here, but we will try to spot her. And if we cannot, and there's no one around, then we will have to call for help."
Her friend nodded and both then walked to the top of that neighbouring hill.
There was a grassy plain further ahead, and a bit further, another tree-planted hill.
But definitely no one in sight.
Which was exactly what Jinx had somehow foreseen.
"Alright. Then we'll have to call..." she said with a slight resignation perceptible in her tone.
Sam shrugged, knowing they had no choice left there.
"HELP ! ….HELP ! …..HELP ! …HEEEEEELP !"
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Knowledge was exhausted, like the rest of her sisters, but none of them had passed out, unlike their Master, who was now lying unconscious a few feet away.
The emotions were simply resting, motionless, waiting for their magical powers and their energy to slowly return. The least they moved, the quicker they would "recover" from their temporary exhaustion.
Most of them had their eyes shut. Only Rage and Knowledge hadn't (even the resistant Brave had decided to close them for a while). They were resting on the grass, breathing slowly as they allowed their force to gradually return, and looking into each other's eyes every now and then, as the red-clad body was right across the yellow-clad one.
Everything was silent, until…
"Knowledge…"
The deep demonic voice made the addressee's gaze get back to the four red eyes of anger's embodiment.
But at the same time, the ears of the glasses-wearing emotion were alert, as they had picked up something, and her mouth slightly opened as she focused on it.
"You hear it like me, don't you ?" asked Rage, but it was purely formal, as she already knew that it was the case.
The other emoticlones had also perceived it and were wondering about it.
"Someone's calling for help…" quietly said Timid, voicing out their common hearing.
"So somebody dared to sneak into Nevermore ?!" half-asked half-said Brave on a clearly outraged tone.
The others knew their green sister well enough to conclude that she was suddenly very impatient to recover her energy… in order to kick the intruder's butt !
"But they're calling for help… perhaps they're not bad guys ? I couldn't identify who it was… but what if it's one of our friends, who got reluctantly dragged to Nevermore ?" pertinently observed Love.
There was a short moment of silence, the others pondering that last utterance.
And then, Knowledge voiced her validation of Love's hypothesis.
"That's indeed possible. Yes, it could be, after all ! Let me focus a bit…"
The Yellow One hadn't recovered enough energy to fly or use magic, but enough to at least focus her magical senses on the origin of the caller. She was the most powerful of them all, so if one emoticlone would be able to start using magic again after being drained from her energy, it was definitely her !
"Jinx and Sam ! But what are they doing here ? Did they get here by accident or did they come here to look for Master ?" she wondered.
"I'm too weak to go meet them…" observed Happy, who was… unhappy about that fact. "Is anyone here now strong enough to fly ?"
She got only headshakes or negative replies.
"We're too damn weak to fly, moron !" scolded Rude.
"I'm even more tired than usual…" lazily remarked Sloth.
"So, what do we do ? We must show them where we are !" pointed out Rage.
Eyes lit up behind glasses.
"Let's all focus the little energy we have then send a signal in the sky, one that can be seen from far away. Each one now focus her own energy, then you'll follow my lead !"
Knowledge may have been opposed to being called 'the unofficial leader of the emoticlones', but that last sentence showed that, whether she liked it or not… she WAS indeed their leader, even if it wasn't openly stated and not admitted by the concerned party.
Every emotion closed her eyes and did her best to gather as much energy as she had available in that moment, and once they had reached the right level, they reopened their eyes and…
"Ready !" firmly announced Brave.
"Ready !" enthusiastically shrilled Happy.
"Ready !" softly said Love.
"Ready !" impolitely yelled Rude.
"Ready !" lazily drawled Sloth.
"Ready…" shyly whispered Timid.
"Ready !" dreadfully growled Rage.
"And ready !" wisely concluded Knowledge. "Now raised your hands to the sky and let your energy flow out !"
They all raised their grey hands and allowed the gathered power to come out.
And in the next seconds, eight columns of light, each of a different colour (matching each emotion's colour of cloak), were reaching for the clouds.
"Maintain the flow ! Jinx and Sam must see this, and since they may not immediately spot our rays, we must keep them up for a moment !" instructed the Yellow Cloak.
"We're gonna get damn pooped…" remarked Rude in a loud voice.
"We have no other choice, halfwit !" grumbled the most dreaded of all emoticlones.
"Hey, watch your mouth, Four-Eyes !" retorted her offended interlocutor.
But Rage's snarl indicated her well enough that she was about to overstep the boundaries… and that it was worth putting things in balance before making the next move !
That was the end of it : no one ever continued arguing with Rage after she had let out one of her threatening throat rumbles !
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"Nobody's answering… just fine, really…" sarcastically commented Jinx, using a speech mode that Raven had a particular fondness for.
"I guess we'll have to search the land in order to track down one of those emoticlones you mentioned…" concluded Sam, who was about to start walking right in front of her.
But before she could…
"LOOK !"
The golden eyes turned in the direction the pink witch was pointing to… and widened !
There, behind a hill, not that far from them, were eight colored "pillars"of light, rising to the clouds.
It looked as if a rainbow had gotten split into separate colored rays, no longer bent like in the rainbow but now straight.
"What's that ?" asked a perplexed Sam.
"Not a clue, but since nobody is answering our calls for help… that's definitely where we have to head to !" replied Jinx.
Not thinking twice, the pair started to run in direction of those coloured rays.
After a long while, they climbed the hill and, peering on the other side… they goggled !
There, lying on the grass, were no less than nine cloaked females, with outfits of different tones : blue, yellow, red, green, pink, purple, grey, orange and brown.
Eight of them had one of their arms up, with a coloured light rising from them and directed at the sky, the last one lay unconscious close-by.
The eyes of the pink emotion were the first to catch sight of the newcomers.
"Heyyyyy, that's Pinky and Blackyyyyy ! Welcome, girls !" she yelled.
"Will you just quit screaming, you silly pot !" barked Rage.
"Woopsy, sorry !" apologized the bubbly one in a quieter yet still enthusiastic tone.
But Rage's glare didn't diminish in intensity. Yet the menacing girl didn't tell her sister off again, satisfied with the other immediately obeying.
The emoticlones lowered their arms, one after the other, the coloured rays vanishing as they did.
"You're Raven's emotions, aren't you ?" asked Jinx, inwardly expecting a confirmation – she had never seen them, but Raven had told her about them.
"We are." confirmed Knowledge, as she briefly smiled at the pair of heroines coming to meet them.
Then she turned to Samantha.
"Please excuse Happy for calling you 'Blacky' earlier. She didn't mean to offend you. She just speaks so spontaneously, without thinking, that she sometimes risks to actually hurt one's feelings. But she definitely respect black people, I swear."
Sam showed a gentle smile.
"It's okay. No offense taken, really. Hum, and so you are Raven's emotions ?"
"We are indeed !" replied Brave.
"But why are you all lying on the floor like that ? And where is Raven ?"
"In order to cure Master from her impossibility to dream, we had to actually reconstitute her organism. Or, put differently, build a brand new organism for her. And to do that, we had to decompose her body into molecules, which served as material basis for the creation of a new organism. This operation takes a certain amount of time, but more importantly, it requires a substantial quantity of energy. Master isn't powerful enough to be able to perform this magical operation by herself, as it demands much more power, so we all provided our energies in addition to her own, and this enabled the spell to work. We did recreate her body. But then, once it was over, once she was complete again, she suddenly felt too weak and lost consciousness. And since we also got weakened by the power input, we also fell and weren't that far from blacking out as well. We now all need to rest here, until our energy is back at its usual level."
Knowledge then observed the girls to know if they had understood all of it, and got ready to answer some potential questions of theirs.
"I think I get it…" the MBC "frontgirl" said. "That explains your lying around all over. But where is Raven ?"
"Here !"
Love was pointing her forefinger at the blue-cloaked female lying unconscious.
"Uh ? It's Rae ? Damn, I thought that it was another emoticlone, dressed in blue like her ! My bad !" admitted Jinx.
"You're pretty cool when you cuss… Pinky !" teased Rude.
The addressee snorted and joined Sam, who had hurried to the Azarathian.
"Raven ? Raven ? Can you hear me ?" gently asked the African-American, as she held up the sorceress' upper body part, supporting it on her bended leg.
Jinx was leaning forward, anxious to see the purple-haired girl come back from unconsciousness's black hole.
After long seconds of waiting, and another call from Sam, the grey eyelids finally moved, but not without some effort.
And a few more seconds later, the violet irises could see their surroundings anew.
"Raven ! Thank God, there you are with us again ! How are you feeling ?"
The violet gaze, obviously tired, moved to the golden one.
"Mmmmmmh… hi Sam… you came… to look for me ?"
"Yes. And Jinx is with me. We were concerned about your absence. And then we got sucked up in here through your mirror, that had been left on your bed."
"Oh… okay…"
"You look exhausted !"
"I don't only look : I am !"
Sam's face was the canon expression of worry.
Raven saw it and understood how anxious her new friend had been for her. Hence did she feel the necessity to comfort her.
"But I'll be okay… don't worry… Sam…"
The gothic girl weakly smiled.
Her vis-à-vis couldn't help smiling back, despite her concern.
"Look, Rae, we must carry you back to our world. How do we exit from here ?" intervened Jinx.
Raven slowly closed and reopened her eyes.
"I'm sorry… but I'm too weak… to teleport us out… and I don't think my emoticlones… have enough energy left… neither…"
Her purple orbs turned to the identical ones behind glasses, a subtle manner to require a reply to the underlying question in her last utterance.
"I'm sorry to admit that you are right, Master. We didn't have much energy left, and we used a bit more in order to produce energy rays that could lead Sam and Jinx here. So we are still too close from exhaustion to focus a sufficient quantity of power for a teleportation… We apologize for that, Master."
Knowledge just hated it when she couldn't find solutions to problems… but alas for her, this was one of those situations, and she was indeed helpless, for once.
"It's okay… you don't have to… feel sorry… you've all done… an outstanding job… in reforming my body… and showing Sam and Jinx… the way to this place… so I thank you all… for your excellent work…"
Then Raven laid her eyes back on her two friends, here to rescue her.
"We will have to… get back through… the forbidden door… It's a gate between… Nevermore and… the real world… To find it… you must… always head south… and you'll find… a passage… leading to the… door…"
"Alright, but in which direction is south in here ?" inquired Samantha.
Raven wanted to answer, but a wave of tiredness crashed upon her spent body and words lacked in her mouth.
So, instead, she closed her eyes and, at the cost of an usually demanding effort, she stretched her arm and pointed her finger in the right direction, but her arm immediately fell back down, as if it had suddenly turned into lead.
"Oh my gosh, you're really exhausted, Rae !" exclaimed Jinx. "And so are you are you all !" she added with a quick glance around.
Nobody reacted to that, but none of them inwardly disagreed…
"We have to carry Raven to that door, and once back in the Tower, have her brought to the infirmary, where Cyborg and Chris will look after her !" explained the MBC leader, once again the one to speak out the decisions and devise the plan, the way she always did when on mission with her own team.
She bent down and, grabbing Raven's arm, put it around her shoulder, getting ready to lift her.
The Badlucker hurried to her side.
"Wait a second, Sam ! Please put her back down ! I know what to do !"
The alien hunter did so, and the pink-haired female bent down, put her arms under Raven's knees and top of back, and focused her energy.
She lifted her without any apparent effort.
"Isn't she too heavy for you, Jinx ?"
"Nope, to me, Rae weights as much as a feather ! Besides, being half-demon like her, I've got unusual strength that help me carrying easily things… and persons !"
She winked at her interlocutor.
Sam snorted and nodded, then turned her eyes to the emoticlones, who now had all positioned themselves so as to watch the two friends as they talked to their Master and then lifted her to carry her back home.
"Can we do anything to help you regain your energy faster ?" she asked the group.
"Ooooooooh, that's so sweeeeet of yoooooou !" shrilled Happy, who gulped shortly after as she heard Rage's warning growl directed at her.
"Very sweet indeed…" said Love in her soft voice, as she smiled and slowly nictated.
"You rock, Sam !" exclaimed Brave, putting her thumb up at her.
"Thank you very much for your concern, Samantha, but you alas cannot be of help regarding this matter. We shall just have to wait here until our energy levels have reached their usual mark. But again, thank you so much for your willingness to help us. That is extremely considerate from you, and we all appreciate it !" explained Knowledge.
"Good return to the Tower…" whispered Timid.
"And thanks for paying us a visit !" joked Rude.
"' Yup, 'xactly…" uttered Sloth in an even slower tone than usual.
"Take care of Master… and of yourselves as well !" concluded the deep demonic voice of Rage, who flashed an all-too-rare smile at the pair of rescuers.
Sam and Jinx smiled back, pretty disconcerted at seeing the most menacing of Raven's emotion unexpectedly smile… which, Jinx knew from Raven's explanations on her emoticlones, was something she never did ! The red-clad one must have had real consideration for the two of them – Sam and herself – to allow herself that exceptional smile…
Then the African-American and the pink-eyed half-demon set out for the forbidden door, impatient to get Raven to the infirmary, where she could rest all the time needed for her to be back to her best condition…
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Cyborg was talking to Chris in the medical unit of the Tower when the door opened and all other teams' members entered.
"So, how is Raven ? Is her condition improving ?" questioned Robin, a dead serious expression on his features.
The Titan Tech faced the group.
"Oh yes, it is ! Her vital signs are all positive and her energy level is rising, slowly but surely. She should be soon back among us, but that should still take at least another day, if not another one. It's difficult to predict exactly when she will wake up from her healing trance. But, given the progression of her power gauge, I don't think it should take more than two days."
"Oh that's so great ! I'm so happy that she will soon be back with us !" chirped Cathy, a huge smile lighting up her face.
"That is indeed excellent news for Friend Raven !" added Starfire, looking just as joyful.
"And we have another good news !" continued Chris. "Do you see this ?"
He was pointing to an indicator where a regular blue line progressed to the right, with small intermittent variations.
"This measures her cerebral activity. And it shows normal data for a sleeper. Totally normal data."
He had emphasized the word 'totally' for a good reason.
And his black teammate was the first one to guess.
"Do you mean that she's…?"
She left her sentence incomplete, but Chris knew she had got it right.
"Yes : this means that Raven is cured… and that she's dreaming again !"
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Good Lord ! This is now February 3rd… which means it'll have taken me a good three weeks to pack that chapter ! Oh gosh, that's a bit too much, isn't it ? But the progression of my work was impaired by adverse elements… needless precise which ones, since it's always the same story…
So, finally a positive ending, eh ! Raven's spell worked, and our favourite gothic girl is on the way to definitive healing. How cool is that ? Let's just hope none of the others will be affected (i.e. attacked by the "dream-thief")… And wouldn't it be great if they managed to finally capture their enemy – that is, the one who steals away people's dreams, not the Big Boss, who for now remains in the shadows…
Oh, and about this line from Jinx : "I sometimes end up getting bored to always behave always the same and say the same things", it actually refers to my own knack for originality, taste for difference, fantasy, imaginative mind, and basically the need to walk away from routine, habits, customs, conventions, to make things in another way… my OWN way ! ;)
Once again, let me express my deepest sadness about David Bowie's demise. He was of the rare artists I called 'genius', coz Goddammit, he definitely was one ! An authentic genius, who explored many, many paths, be it in music, in looks, in arts (he wasn't just a musician !), in his invented characters… he tried (and often succeeded in) so many things, he achieved so much success in so different musical universes… in one word, he constantly re-invented himself, and there are (almost ?) no artists who did it as much or as good as him ! Hats off, Mr. Bowie ! May your soul rest in eternal peace !
I'm sure that Ana, as for her, will grieve over Alan Rickman's death, since he was part of the Harry Potter franchise, and given how much she loves HP… isn't it, Ana ?
And now is your turn again, Ana !
Bye 4 now, Audience ! All take good care of yourselves !
(Dixxy)
