Istas had holed up in her room during the storm that caused the power to go out. Normally she'd been outside wandering the streets trying to make them safer. However, tonight it was far more realistic for her to be indoors as she'd noticed the storm coming before she had snuck out the window of her bedroom.

There was a frown from the teen as she tried to sleep, she'd been use to walking in the cool night air releasing some of her pent up energy after being inside where it was cooler. She woke up startled when the branch snapped and took her power. Trying not to squeal when the electricity flashed outside and her house went pitch black. Except, luckily for her, the rechargeable nightlights. She'd bought them for her home world, to take them with her if she decided to go on a 'camping' trip and spend the night.

She pulled those out and lit up the important parts of the hall and then went to bang on her parents door. She already had a radio out, and she wasn't sure how her mom and dad managed to sleep through -that-. The teen sighed, it was going to start getting hot in the house from no power.

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The next morning Istas and her parents were looking at the damage, thankfully the tree limb didn't do much more than rip the power lines from the house and thanks to the hotline they were no longer live. Yet, they were on the waiting list to get their power back, something about probably three days.

Istas groaned as she looked at her parents, "We have to deal with this for three days!?" She couldn't watch TV, play video games or much of anything else. Not to mention the house wouldn't be cool at all. Their food was going to spoil too if they didn't cook it! Her dad assured her he had the solution to the food problem, though she was just was going to have to get creative with the rest of it. They were working on cleaning up the yard before it got too hot.

"I'm sleeping outside the next three days." She said, they had a nice backyard, she had a tent too, she might as well make use of it. Granted it was a bright pink tent, and a hello kitty sleeping bag but still. It was better to sleep in the summer night air as long as it wasn't raining, and her parents would never know the difference.

She sighed when she'd finished helping clean up Istas looked around, "I'm going to the mall!" She smiled as she ran inside to wash her hands and grab her bag, "I'll be back before supper!" The windows had all been opened to let any breezes blow through. Istas really hoped it wouldn't take that long for the power to return. However, for now she'd just go goof off at the mall, maybe hang out with friends. Surely there were friends with places that had air conditioning right!? Or if nothing else she'd take a short trip to her comet, it seemed to have fairly nice weather this time of year.