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Cafeteria | Afternoon | Thursday | November 25

It was Thanksgiving Day. It was time for parades, football and food. Currently, Alex was leaning against one of the walls in the kitchen, watching the catering company set up for dinner. There was a shitload of food and his stomach growled just watching.

It was good to be president. He got to delegate everything.

When one of the caterers stepped forward and thrust a plastic wrapped garment bag in his hand, Alex frowned.

"What?"

"Outfits for the dinner," the caterer said. "The contract states that we make and you serve the food. No fulfillment of the contract, no food."

Confused, Alex unzipped the bag and peeked inside. The costume was not cool at all.

"Are you serious?" Alex asked, glaring. "No way!"

"No costumes," the caterer said, already signaling his workers to get ready to package the food up, "no food."

Alex continued glaring at the caterer and the costume. He hated his life.

[OCD is up and this is posted early for SP, of course!]

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"Emotionless?" Zatanna shot her an 'are you serious?!' sort of look for a moment. "You already got the whole 'emotions are what make us humans' speech, I assume?" Now she was trying to imagine things from Raven's perspective...but it was impossible, she couldn't imagine a world without emotion. "You aren't emotionless now, at least." Even if she had seen mostly negative emotions, though.

"When Azarath was created, its people cast away their negative emotions in the name of peace," Raven said. "But in suppressing them, they also made positive emotions fade. Azarath is peace and serenity, but no love or hate, no passion or anger, no sadness or joy. And it is in that way I was raised."

She paused to take a sip of water before continuing. "I was resolved to still follow that path when I arrived here, for I had been warned strong emotions were dangerous to me. But I have since learned to embrace them."

"You can't fight what you don't know. Being devoid of emotions...it just makes you more vulnerable to them in the long run. Or at least I think like that." That didn't mean she was against a peaceful culture, but a numb culture? That smelled all kinds of wrong.

"When you say dangerous...you mean that your powers react to your emotions, right?" She remembered their first meeting, and how Raven's rage had made her seem like a lot more of a threat then she looked like now.

"I think that was the flaw in Azar's plan," Raven said with a sad smile. She had to wonder what Azar would think of her now, if she knew her student was experiencing emotions. "And...yes, they do," she said. "I am attempting to learn to keep myself calm in such situations."

Did she say was? Zatanna didn't ask, well aware that she already knew more than she wanted about her future.

"Look, just...don't go repressing yourself or avoiding touchy subjects for the sake of keeping your cool. You'll just end exploding, and that would be way, way worse."

Raven shook her head. "I cannot allow myself to become angry," she said. "That is far too dangerous to those around me. I wish to experience good emotions, but I must control my anger and fear."

"I...suppose so." She felt like she should try to give more advice, but Zatanna wasn't an expert on the subject, and any more and she would be making up stuff. So she stood. Oh yes, running away worked just as fine. "Just take care, alright? And you and Karla aren't the only ones good at healing. Just saying."

"Do you have some skill in that area as well?" Raven asked curiously. It was always handy in Fandom to have more healers around.

"Hm? Yep. That's one of the things dad wanted me to control the best. I can't say I'm the best at that but, I have the healing skills." She didn't consider herself a healer -it drained her a lot- but when your magic allows you to do pretty much what you want...

"If someone needs help, then helping is the least I can do. So before you go overexerting yourself, let me know."

"Thank you, I will bear that in mind," Raven said. "While I have few limitations on what I may heal, there have been times when there are too many injured to handle at once, and your magics would be useful if Fandom were ever invaded again."

She thought briefly, very briefly, of asking if Zatanna could do something about the pain in her side and her neck, but no, if she couldn't bring herself to tell Karla, she couldn't tell Zatanna that she was still hurting from a healing. Then they'd all be like Max and try to forbid her to use her gifts, and she could never stand for that.

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