Friendly neighborhood fairy

It had not been a good day for Murphy.

It wasn't that his alarm clock had failed to go off that bothered him, nor was it the shower pipes bursting. It wasn't that he'd managed to accidentally force the chemistry class to evacuate for what he was told the third time nor that he'd manage to trip and fall into the school fountain again that had set him on edge. No, what really chafed was that after nearly a year on the island he still was in no way in control of his power despite every specialist on the island having poked and prodded at him in every way imaginable.

After nearly getting himself fired for dropping another tray of glasses he'd skulked off into the forest for a smoke only to sigh in dismay as he realized he'd lost his lighter. Well, at least the place was a nice place to nap. He'd just managed to start dozing off when a glittering trail zipped by him and up into the tree above.

He'd opened his mouth to speak only to be pelted with a puff of... was that pixie dust? "Ey! There's people down here!" he managed to sputter, desperately trying to brush the stuff away from his eyes. Christ this was going to be a nightmare to wash out.

@MARIE

Murphy frowned. Like Peter Pa- ah, well at least the woman seemed lucid enough to make jokes, even if she was muttering to herself. "Bah, no harm done I guess. Certainly not the worst shit to be spilled on this coat." he patted his pockets for his cigarettes only to find them crushed where he'd been sleeping on them. Damn, that was a full pack too.

He looked back up at the...fairy, pixie, fae? Whatever. Hopefully this one wasn't going to drag him to whatever the freaky place was that the last fairy thing had called home and attempt to devour him. THAT was a night he wouldn't soon forget. "So uh, what brings ya way the hell out here?"

@MARIE

Murphy slumped back against the tree as the young woman flitted down to join him. He glanced at her wings and nodded, "Fair enough. The city's nice but I'll wager it can be difficult to stretch out proper when there's a thousand people about, aye?"

Stretching languidly he gave her a quick once-over. It was hard to tell her age, she had one of those faces that people might call 'timeless' or 'eternal' though her manner of speech made her come across as younger, high school or college perhaps?

"Me? Eh, I tend to wander out here when I'm restless, bored, or pissed. So yeah, guess I'm out here fairly often. Good place to be left alone in. 'Less the monsters get to ya of course, then things get exciting."

Of course things were much safer when you were on good terms with some of the bigger monsters out here but that was beside the point.

@MARIE

Murphy tensed slightly as she settled beside him but did his best to hide it. On an island full of super powered people and not-quite-people it was hard not to feel a bit like prey at any given time.

"I dunno, at least out here things are pretty straightforward 'bout wanting to kill ya rather than luring your into a nightclub under the pretense of having a good time before bringing out the fangs and claws like at the bloody Gammor-"

His thoughts were interrupted by a loud grumble emanating from his stomach. Ah right, coffee, while a wonderful thing, was no substitute for actual food. Especially when it was the only thing he'd consumed for a few days now. Rummaging around in his pockets he found a slightly crushed granola bar and tore open the package. Breaking the snack in half he offered half to the fairy girl. "Here, hungry?"

@MARIE