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Luna had managed to convince her mom that she was old enough to cruise the mall on her own. Well, relatively on her own - she assumed her older sister was wandering around somewhere else in the mall. The two of them had decided to split up into their own pursuits when they saw how empty the mall was and now she was wandering around looking at various store fronts. She actually did have some money of her own to spend, but she had best keep her purchases small.

She found herself standing outside a toy store, looking at the various toys that were running on display. There was a familar sense coming from beside her and it felt like the air conditioner wasn't quite working where she was standing. She glanced over to see an oddly dressed teen standing there. A teen at a toy store? Admittedly, she was trying to outgrow toys herself, but at least she skimmed under the "child age limit" still.

Luna returned the smile tentatively and gave a small wave back, worry growing inside. Was the teen the source of the strage sense? She certainly hoped so - she was hard-placed to ignore her mother's warnings about the things older men might do to younger girls like her if they got the girls alone. She could vaguely sense her sister moving about in the mall, but she wasn't the familar-yet-not-familar sense she was feeling more strongly at the moment.

She took a peek around - it was just the two of them, so that sense had to becoming from the teen, right? She blinked at the teen, hoping he was a scroll child like her and not some perverted dude hunting little kids; her mother would never forgive her if she actually went off with some unknown person after all those warnings, even if they felt like a scroll child.

The teen stepped closer and Luna could have sworn the heat around her increased before she took a step back and gripped her hands together behind her back to keep him from seeing them shake. "Er, hi. I'm Luna..." She eyed him carefully, noting the hand twitch, as she stated, "My mommy told me that strange people might try to be friendly with me just to make off with me." She kept her hands clasped together behind her back, although she was ready to fight back if need be. But... there was still the strange sensation that she couldn't shake, and she knew it wasn't her sister... For some reason, every time she tried to figure out where it came from, her eyes came back to rest on the teen. But... he's a teen. If he was a scroll child, where's the evidence of his scroll image?

Luna tried not to stare. That reaction was too real to be fake. Didn't he know? "Yeah, really." How could he not know?

She actually did stare at him in shock when he mentioned the scroll children. "Er, maybe. Are you one?" she countered.

She felt a bit bad for making him feel bad, but what with all her mother told her (and scaring her a good deal in the process), she couldn't be certain if he actually was feeling bad for scaring her or if it was an act... Something told her it wasn't an act, however.

"Hot?" Luna's expression went blank at that. His ability was to be hot? Wait... "You're why it feels like there's no air conditioning?" She blinked rapidly for a moment at that thought. Well, there was the evidence of a scroll image, although she thought heat would be associated more with the sun then comets. "Mine's the moon. I glow in sync with the moon's cycle - the less you see, the dimmer my glow, the more you see, the brighter the glow." She blushed slightly. "It's a bit bright to tell now, but I am glowing, honest." She seemed to trust him a lot more now that she knew he was a scroll child like her. At least she now knew where that familiar sense was coming from!

Luna tapped her lower lip thoughtfully. "My sister said something about meeting someone who couldn't help but radiate heat once... Seemed a bit apologetic too, although I could never figure out why..."

She blinked when Nate seemed enthusiastic about her ability. Why was it that at least half the scroll kids she met always seemed to like her scroll ability better than their own? "Uh, yeah, I glow." Hopefully he wouldn't mention trying to go get into the basement or something to see her ability like last time...

"Yeeeaaaahhhh..." Luna drew the word out. "She's also a scroll kid. Poison Ivy for an image. Has to be careful who she touches with her bare skin because they might get rashes from the same kinds of oil her scroll image usually puts out." Bit much information given there, but it wasn't like Luna knew that. She frowned when he put down his own ability, but wanted to say the faults on her own first. "Glowing sounds neat, sure, but do you know how hard it is to sneak around at night? Everyone always knows exactly where you are. And it's hard to sleep with all that light some nights. And you... Well, you'll never freeze. You can keep others from freezing. You might be able to cut through metal walls like a torch. It'd be hard for anyone to kidnap you." She thought for a moment. "Have you ever tried to go swimming? Maybe all that water would dampen the heat you normally radiate."