Private Finished Catch of the Day

"Rose! I'm heading out for a session," she called out to her younger sister as she locked the door behind her after she got response back. She was in her running outfit, just a pair of jogging pants, rubber shoes, and a sweatshirt. She went from the apartment and jogged all the way to the coastline. She had to keep herself in shape, and constant jogging was a good way to burn some energy. Work just wasn't that demanding at the moment, so she had to improvise. Though it did help clear her mind. She took a short rest at the pier, keeping track of how exhausted she was and how long it took for her heartbeat and breathing to go back to normal. It improved since last week, which was good. She spied a number of objects in the distance, ones she could use as a landmark for the second phase of her session. Ali had been practicing her powers now and again, but never to this extent before. Maybe it was the boredom, or the creeping amazement and jealousy from seeing her work associates use their abilities in so many ways. Watching certain shows with her sister may have been part of the reason as well. She plotted her course along the shore, and planned out what she hoped to accomplish. Standing up on the pier, she jumped towards the water, then in the blink of an eye, she was crouched down on the sand, grabbing an abandoned plastic bottle half-filled with sand and seawater, and throwing it towards a wooded pole. She teleported again, above the pole and tried to catch it, only for it to hit her face right on her forehead. She let out a groan as landing on the sand was as soft as anyone would think, falling from six feet in the air. She tried again, this time throwing the bottle above her. She jumped, teleported while her momentum was still going, caught the bottle, threw it towards the sea, teleported again, and failed to catch it once more. Not wanting to fall into the water, she teleported right back to the sand, once again, landing on her back. 'I need to figure out a way to lose momentum...' The bottle was lost to the waves, but there was no shortage of other things to use. She picked up a stone and paused to wonder if it was a good idea. 'More of a reason to get it right, I suppose.' She threw the stone to the water again, and once more teleported, but this time, something wasn't right. She found herself well above a city, with gigantic flying creatures she had never seen before. One of them swooped in when they saw her, and before she could be snapped up, she blinked to the side, or it was her intention, but once more she wound up in another location, still falling, but the air was rancid and it felt as if her throat began to melt. In a panic, she tried teleporting again and again, hoping she'd be brought somewhere else, but it wasn't until her fourth try, and would have been the last before hitting the jagged rocks below, that she found herself falling towards a large body of water. She looked around and noticed that she was back on the island. She could see the city, and the buildings on the pier definitely were the same ones she passed before her break. She didn't have long to right herself before she hit the water. While it wasn't the most graceful dive she'd ever done, none of her limbs hit the water too hard, and she soon swam up to the surface, gasping for air and coughing to get the rancid air out of her lungs. So much for not getting wet. That when she saw someone rowing towards her and holding out a hand, which she took without a second thought. "I wouldn't say rough... just... weird, I guess..." She sat on the rowboat, taking deep breaths and exhaling as hard as she could, away from her rescuer. "Sorry, I took in some bad air..." She slumped down and leaned on the edge, exhaustion taking its toll.

"Assumed right. It's freezing out here." She hadn't even noticed how cold it was when she fell into the water. Brain was too busy trying to figure out what actually happened, but the breeze while she was on the rowboat gave a piercing chill to remind her. A moment later, blue flames started to encircle her. She was admittedly cautious, but who wouldn't be in this situation, right? Still, she didn't let that be read on her face, though mostly out of habit from her conditioning. The heat did feel nice however, and she was thankful for that. At the very least, she won't be soaking wet going back to the apartment. Aliasse looked up to her rescuer when she asked her a question, and she nodded. "Yeah, I guess that's what happened. Can't come up with another reason... I was somewhere completely different. Ran into some big flying things, then someplace where the air was just acidic vapor. I might have jumped to another dimension, but I can't be completely sure..." She rubbed her temples, wincing a bit. The headaches started up. She teleported too many times too quickly.

Aliasse nodded. While this wasn't the first time she had a mishap with teleportation, it was the first time her own teleportation did something of that magnitude. It seems a lot scarier when it was your own powers sending you through dimensions. She took her savior's hand and got back on dry land. A bit unstable on her feet still, but still had good balance. Though her world spun a little when she shook her head at her savior's offer. "I appreciate the offer, Adelaida, but I can't. My name's Aliasse. Ali for short. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be ungrateful after being pulled out of the sea and dried up, but we don't know each other." The look on her face was unreadable as she said it, but it turned into soft smile, breaking through her exhaustion soon after. "However, I'm not one to let a good turn go unrecognized, so if there's anything I could do for you, just let me know. Within reason of course."

For a moment she looked away. "Sorry to offend," she said, rubbing the back of her neck. She hated it when people got like this for being refused, but at least Adelaida seemed to understand. Though she did ask if Aliasse could take a seat next to her for a short break. Now that was something Ali could entertain. "Yeah, if I went home now I'd risk passing out." She went next to her and sat down. "Do you mind if I smoke?"

With the 'go ahead', Aliasse pulled out a pack from her pocket, kept safe by a waterproof case. While she had a lighter tucked in there as well, she didn't want to keep refusing, so she lit her cigarette on Adelaida's flame. "Well, I was practicing my powers. Don't do it quite often, but..." she took a drag from her cigarette and blew it to the side, away from Adelaida's direction. "I figured I'd might as well make use of it." Partially, it was also a way for her to embrace who she was now. There was no chance she could go back to her old life, and she didn't think she could ever do that if given the chance. "I don't know what went wrong or what I did different, but I just ended up someplace where I could have been made into bird food. Tried it again when I tried to evade one of them swooping down on me, and I ended up someplace that had air that felt like a cloud of pepper spray. It took a couple of tries before I got out of there, and that's when you came in, fishing me out after falling from the sky."