“This exact creature? Just the once. Creatures like it? Pretty much on the regular.”
Strange’s own cloak is muddied and stained with horrors; he keeps expecting it to animate and wring itself out, but there’s no sign of life from the piece of clothing any longer. He keeps frowning down at it, running an absentminded touch over its edges, before he finally just unclasps the thing and starts to fold it reverently in his lap. Laundry. He’ll have to find laundry when they get to wherever they’re going.
“You seem like you know what you’re doing in a fight, though.” He’s met enough capable kids by now that it doesn’t startle him as much as it should — Kamar-Taj was full of scrappy orphans learning magic — although she seems even more hard-bitten than America. His gaze had initially snagged and caught on those missing fingers, before he tactfully looked away. “Did you say your name was Ellie?”
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Strange’s own cloak is muddied and stained with horrors; he keeps expecting it to animate and wring itself out, but there’s no sign of life from the piece of clothing any longer. He keeps frowning down at it, running an absentminded touch over its edges, before he finally just unclasps the thing and starts to fold it reverently in his lap. Laundry. He’ll have to find laundry when they get to wherever they’re going.
“You seem like you know what you’re doing in a fight, though.” He’s met enough capable kids by now that it doesn’t startle him as much as it should — Kamar-Taj was full of scrappy orphans learning magic — although she seems even more hard-bitten than America. His gaze had initially snagged and caught on those missing fingers, before he tactfully looked away. “Did you say your name was Ellie?”