[he sees Tinya out of her Legion uniform. a civilian.
she's running towards a large, domed building, omnicoms containing valuable data clasped in her arms. the overwhelming feeling is one of anxiety as she knows that her mother needs these documents and she also knows that she's running late, that the United Planets meeting will begin any minute and that if her mother doesn't have this data, she'll never hear the end of the admonishments.
"Mom's gonna kill me! I can't believe I left these documents behind at the hotel! Why can't I do anything right for once? C'mon, Tinya, c'mon..."
finally, she enters the halls of the United Planets headquarters, looking around frantically for her mother.
"Luckily, it's getting pretty crowded in here. Maybe she won't notice I'm late?"
Tinya scans the hall for any sign of her mother, finally finding her across the room, up in the risers and apparently arguing with another delegate. her focus is entirely on the argument, leaving Tinya to breath a sigh of relief and hope that her attention stays that way.
"There she is! I better get to her fast, before the meeting starts!"
most people would have to walk around the enormous globe in the center of the room, but not Tinya. she phases and walks straight through it, noticing something. . . odd about its insides. she'd been expecting either a hollow shell or a solid mass, but inside there's. . . wiring. of a kind she's never seen before. "That's weird. Why does the globe have--"
but she's cut off by her mother's angry voice from the risers. "Tinya Wazzo! Get over here now!"
Tinya closes her eyes briefly. her mother sounds outraged at Tinya's display of her powers and she slowly makes her way up to her mother, dreading the inevitable confrontation, but at the same time wanting to alert her to the wiring inside the globe. whatever it was, it didn't look like it was supposed to be there.
when Tinya finally makes it to her mother, her mother grabs Tinya's ear, pinching it tightly as her fingernails dig into the sensitive flesh. she'd try phasing to get away, but she knows that her mother would simply phase in response and still be able to catch her.
her mother speaks in an outraged whisper, "Are you purposefully trying to embarrass me in front of the whole galaxy?"
Tinya winces in pain and tries to get her mother to calm down, "Oww! I didn't--"
but her mother doesn't let her keep speaking, she interrupts with "You didn't think is what you didn't do! How could you show such disrespect?"
Tinya's hopes that her mother will listen to her about the globe sinks, but she still has to try "But, mom. The globe!"
but her mother was in no mood to listen to her daughter's concerns and she snaps "Just sit down and be quiet!"
with one final twist to Tinya's earlobe, her mother lets go and Tinya sinks into her seat, humiliated and unable to get the globe out of her mind. why wouldn't anyone listen to her for a change?
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she's running towards a large, domed building, omnicoms containing valuable data clasped in her arms. the overwhelming feeling is one of anxiety as she knows that her mother needs these documents and she also knows that she's running late, that the United Planets meeting will begin any minute and that if her mother doesn't have this data, she'll never hear the end of the admonishments.
"Mom's gonna kill me! I can't believe I left these documents behind at the hotel! Why can't I do anything right for once? C'mon, Tinya, c'mon..."
finally, she enters the halls of the United Planets headquarters, looking around frantically for her mother.
"Luckily, it's getting pretty crowded in here. Maybe she won't notice I'm late?"
Tinya scans the hall for any sign of her mother, finally finding her across the room, up in the risers and apparently arguing with another delegate. her focus is entirely on the argument, leaving Tinya to breath a sigh of relief and hope that her attention stays that way.
"There she is! I better get to her fast, before the meeting starts!"
most people would have to walk around the enormous globe in the center of the room, but not Tinya. she phases and walks straight through it, noticing something. . . odd about its insides. she'd been expecting either a hollow shell or a solid mass, but inside there's. . . wiring. of a kind she's never seen before. "That's weird. Why does the globe have--"
but she's cut off by her mother's angry voice from the risers. "Tinya Wazzo! Get over here now!"
Tinya closes her eyes briefly. her mother sounds outraged at Tinya's display of her powers and she slowly makes her way up to her mother, dreading the inevitable confrontation, but at the same time wanting to alert her to the wiring inside the globe. whatever it was, it didn't look like it was supposed to be there.
when Tinya finally makes it to her mother, her mother grabs Tinya's ear, pinching it tightly as her fingernails dig into the sensitive flesh. she'd try phasing to get away, but she knows that her mother would simply phase in response and still be able to catch her.
her mother speaks in an outraged whisper, "Are you purposefully trying to embarrass me in front of the whole galaxy?"
Tinya winces in pain and tries to get her mother to calm down, "Oww! I didn't--"
but her mother doesn't let her keep speaking, she interrupts with "You didn't think is what you didn't do! How could you show such disrespect?"
Tinya's hopes that her mother will listen to her about the globe sinks, but she still has to try "But, mom. The globe!"
but her mother was in no mood to listen to her daughter's concerns and she snaps "Just sit down and be quiet!"
with one final twist to Tinya's earlobe, her mother lets go and Tinya sinks into her seat, humiliated and unable to get the globe out of her mind. why wouldn't anyone listen to her for a change?
and the memory fades out]