Thread: Extracurricular Activities [Spider-Man -- Sigr & Virginia]

Ugh. He looked flustered. That hadn't been Savannah's intention, she'd wanted to just block out Flash so that Peter would concentrate, Flash would shut up, and she could learn things. Only one of those things had happened, and now she was stuck staring at his stupid blushing face. It was one of the first times she'd seen someone her age blush though, and she wasn't sure she liked it. She didn't like it when other people seemed charming or cute. It was something to learn from, though. It would get other people, and she knew that. So the best thing to do would be master that look and use it. There had to be some way to blush on cue. She could use any of the other necessary facial expressions with ease, but this one hadn't been necessary. Interacting with people her age was probably the time it would become so. She would spend some time online learning about everything she could while she waited for the sun to go down after this was over. When it became clear that Ned had the answer to the math problem and not Peter, she straightened and moved over to his part of the table to look at the scrap paper the algorithm was written on. Oh. Yeah, okay. She could see where she'd gone wrong. I got stuck halfway through. She glanced back at Peter, and nodded. I can see the appeal. The idea of teamwork bothered her, but Savannah supposed it was because she was imagining being a team with anyone but her dad. She had gotten very used to teamwork, as long as it was one specific person every time. Do you all learn all of it, or does everyone get a different focus? That might be a good plan, but knowledge was power. Punching was also power, but in this new world with heroes and villains, knowledge made a difference. People hid their identities for a reason. The only one who hadn't was the one who didn't think he had anything to lose. The new one running around New York, he had the whole mask thing going. Hopefully they'd never meet, she didn't exactly consider heroes allies. Didn't want to go too far and run into the gun guy either though. The next question was medical, more specifically about the fight-or-flight response. She knew that well, she'd spent so long working on her own because her natural response as a child had been flight and sometimes freezing. Making the switch had been unnatural, and pretty often painful. But rather than spending time in reflection, Savannah allowed herself to get for it. She had an answer for why she knew it too, so it was okay. She didn't want to not know anything, lack of knowledge would be more suspicious than knowledge here. So a question about brain chemistry? Totally cool. Her slender hand shot out, palm pressing down on Ned's buzzer. Norepinephrine. Her reflexes were fast but they were human fast, excusable by something like gymnastics. Technically true, she had exceptional balance, could do flips, and could do the splits. that was probably most of what gymnastics was. If it wasn't, whatever. Right, Michelle said, looking entirely unsurprised. This time the curly haired blond didn't bothered to look too happy about it, but that was because she'd had entire confidence in her answer. She remembered learning it. She'd poured over medical textbooks that had been bought or, on one occasion, stolen from a used bookstore. Had to know how the human body worked to manipulate it, to weaponize it. Almost everything was chemical, it could all be ignored and overcome.