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[prodigaljaybird]

Jason hasn't slept a night through since he was fourteen years old. It's nothing new, half his nightmares so familiar they happen almost by rote, though there's a few that still manage to terrify. He goes to bed in tired expectation, feels his body sleep and his brain light up. The fighter in him smiles and welcomes the chance to meet each falling crowbar with something better than child-sized fists, meet them with guns and blades and bombs, and in his dream Jason doesn't start screaming until the shadows grow long and bat-shaped.

He falls asleep in silence.

Jason wakes to his own gasping breaths in bed and the earth shifting beneath him.

"What the f - " he starts, but the world only shakes harder, something in the movement focused, personal. It's shaking his bed harder than anything, and Jason reaches out against the attack, seizes the gauntlet beneath his pillow and wishes it was a gun.

"You'll fucking wish - " he bellows, but as soon as the words leave him he feels himself forced violently back, propelled from his sheets and right into the air. His heart races - his bed's so close to the wall, he's gonna hit and there's no time to twist, nothing to grab, nothing to stop him and it's too fucking late to -

Jason's body flies through the bamboo with a mighty crack and is caught by the ground, coming to rest a dozen yards away with great rivets of earth in his wake.

There's a million things he should be doing. Lying there stunned feels like the best start.

[ooc: open to all in game, posted privately for preplay~ Jason just blew out the side of his hut, still in the boxers and tank top he went to bed in. His power is the sonic scream.]

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Cissie stared at the tree for a few moments, too shocked to even fidget with the effort of staying still. She wasn't the only one who woke up with new-found powers, clearly, nor was she the only one having a tough time with controlling it. She'd been lucky with having Bart around but as far as she knew, Black Canary wasn't around.

"So you're Black Canary and I'm the Flash. I don't know, something seems really wrong with this picture," she quipped because it was either joke or have hysterics and she didn't think Jason would appreciate that.

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Jason peels away the fingers clasped to his mouth, twists his head and barks in the opposite direction just to test her words, and sure enough, another tree erupts.

"Wow," he exhales. And she's..."You have Bart's powers. Is everyone like this?"

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"I don't think so," Cissie shook her head as she tried (and failed) not to bounce on the balls of her feet. "I mean, as soon as I realized what was going on, I ran all the way to the treehouse and woke up poor Bart. He didn't get anything, though, which seems really weird and not fair. I didn't even ask Cassie and I'm probably so going to get yelled at for that when I see her."

She took a breath and smiled ruefully at Jason, sure that she'd been going way too fast. "Sorry, I'm still kind of getting used to this. Everything is just so slow right now."