12 ₪ [VIDEO]

[themuse]

[The video feed comes on, and there is Kate. She's standing in the middle of her living room, which just so happens to be decked out in Christmas decorations. And she's wearing 6-inch heels.]

Okay, guys, check this out.

[Propping up the phone, she backs away and starts running laps around the living room. An excited beagle jumps off the couch and chases her around. After that display, she stops in the middle of the room and does a pretty impressive roundhouse kick in the direction of nothing in particular. Then she comes back and picks up the phone, barely winded.

Behind her, the dog is jumping and barking.]

Everyone is posting about their awesome super power discoveries so I thought I'd share. I totally figured out mine.

Bad-ass ninja skills.

Comments

[themuse]

You know, if I have super powers, and you're my sister, you probably have super powers too. I'm pretty sure that's how that works.

[librariansheart]

Really? Do you think so? What do you think mine would be? I don't feel like I have super powers...

[themuse]

Neither did I, until I put on heels. You might be a ninja, too. But you'll never know until you try... [She grins and slips off one of the heels and dangles it towards Sheska, teasing her.]

[librariansheart]

[She leans back away from it, eyeing it apprehensively.] ...I could also break my ankle in those things. They look amazing on you, but I think I would just fall over.

[themuse]

Maybe. [She thinks on that.] If I'm the cool older sister with the awesome superpowers, maybe you are the brainy younger sister who makes my cool toys?

[librariansheart]

Hm. [That sounds neat! ...Probably means it doesn't work that way. But a girl can hope, right?] Maybe that's why I was reading all those books? I mean, other than that they're really interesting. I didn't see anything in there about mechanics or anything, though. There was a book on computer basics, though!

[themuse]

[It sounds like as good an idea as any to Kate, but she might just have her hopes set a little high on how cool her life actually is.] What are all the other books about?

[librariansheart]

Oh, all sorts of things! History, and biology and geography... There's an old encyclopedia set - very well worn - with my name in the front cover absolutely full of side commentary! There are even a few half-finished ones that look hand-written. All about fantastic things... alchemy and equivalent exchange, changing one thing into another. It sounds marvelous, doesn't it?

[Well, one thing's for sure. Your little sister is passionate about her books, Kate.]

[themuse]

[Kate laughs, nodding.]

Yeah, actually, it all sounds pretty interesting. But I think you're probably the brains and I'm probably the brawn. I bet we make one hell of a team.

[librariansheart]

Oh no, I'm sure you're very smart in your own right. But I get the feeling that you don't have the time to do all the research while you're off saving the world. We should look for any case files we have, in case there's something important we're supposed to be taking care of, don't you think?

[themuse]

That's a great idea. Maybe we should go down to the police station and see if there's anything with our names on it. [Or, at least, what they think their names are.] Someone might need our help.