xp_logs | Backdated to Thursday 4/10.

Tandy, Sue and Namor are on their way into the City when they discover Sue's necklace glows.

A small blonde blur passed by the doorway near the garage. This was not the first time, and each subsequent passing was accompanied with a string of thoughtful muttering in her wake; expression intent. One of the two figures watching this — the male one, tall, dark, and broad shouldered with with a coat in hand — turned to the other and dryly commented, "How long until we're late?" The small blonde figure passed again.

Tandy checked her watch, "It is an hour drive so if we don't leave in the next five minutes we will be late. Sue? Are you done doing whatever it is you are doing?" Tan called out her to best friend.

"Be with you in a sec," the petite blonde replied distractedly staring at the pendant in her hand with a frown. It was glowing. Not as brightly as a lamp or even her phone but there was a perceptible glow. She'd been pacing up and down the corridor for the past few minutes trying to figure out what had started the luminescence. It had never been anything other than utterly normal in all the time she'd had it, well as normal as a pendant which was found in the middle of a magical cavern under the sea anyway.

Namor smiled patiently at Tandy. It did not cross his mind to ask what Sue was doing or to protest how long this was taking — his patience and chivalrous behavior was ingrained so deep that it was second nature to afford a lady all the time she may need without protest. Unfortunately, he was also abysmal at small talk. His gaze drifted back to Sue as she passed again.

"A second has already passed. Come on we are going to be late and I don't mean fashionably late either!" Tandy wasn't taking the chivalrous behavior route as she watched her friend.

"We're always fashionably late," Sue objected half-heartedly as she turned towards her friends, "Face it even if we get there early we're still going to be fashionably late," she noted with a grin, "We just can't help being awesome like that." she told her best friend with a laugh.

Tandy opened her mouth to speak but then quickly closed before shaking her head at her friend. "Are you ready now?" Tandy finally she started to move into the garage and flicked on the light.

"Sure," Sue confirmed with a nod tucking the necklace pendant away and pulling her coat tight around her as she followed her friend into the garage. The teenager shivered as the cold air hit her. "I am completely over this weather," she noted as she hurried towards Tandy's car.

Namor moved into the garage last after holding the door open for the two girls. He blinked in confusion at Sue's comment, but then remembered the coat he still kept under one shoulder and shrugged mostly to himself. He ventured for small talk instead of putting it on: "Miss Storm, was there a problem?"

Tandy took her keys out of her leather jacket and looked at Sue, "You have been looking at the necklace a lot lately." Tandy unlocked the doors and got into the driver's seat.

"It glows," came the matter of fact answer, "Not all the time, just every now and then." the teenager replied as she pulled the necklace out to show her friends, "I've been trying to figure out why," Sue admitted. "I mean it glowed in boiler beach, then in the garage and the rec room so I've pretty much ruled out basic environmental factors, I'll need to take it into a lab to confirm that, but that's kind of a last resort. I'd rather not break chips off the necklace if I don't have to.I was thinking maybe it was a chemical reaction of some kind but it's not getting hot, just brighter. I thought the luminescence was because of some kind of refractory effect, only then it'd always be glowing. It's a mystery!" Sue finished with a grin.

Namor frowned as if something about the blue green pendant bothered him on a technical level, like how one might care about something briefly mentioned on the news. He got into the car's backseat after Sue was seated in the front. "Have you contacted the jeweler you purchased it from?"

"I didn't exactly get it from a jewelry store," Sue admitted hesitantly, "You remember the cave trip we took over the summer? I kinda found the pendant over there, while you know, we were being attacked by giant killer scorpion things. It kinda saved my life," as she was speaking the blonde subconsciously rubbed her left shoulder where the scorpion had attacked her, "the pendant sorta deflected the strike, so I kept it, you know it's a good luck charm really."

"I know little about magic," Namor replied with a frown like the mere thought gave him a headache, "But isn't removing relics from mysterious caves and crypts a thing that goes no where good?" He forced a smile through the frown.

"Really? You kept a gem from that scorpion kings lair? I do recall when I touched one of those things I couldn't use my powers for a good couple of minutes before saving your butt." Looking over at Sue before starting the car and putting it in reverse. "I agree with Namor. Nothing good comes from that. Have you not been watching the movies on Sunday night?"

"It's kinda hard to actually see anything when I spend half the night with my face buried in a cushion," Sue pointed out with a laugh, "besides, its totally not my fault. I was unconscious when we left, and anyway," Sue grinned at her friends, "Don't tell me you all believe in bad luck?" The blonde teased, "The pendent saved my life, deflecting the stinger and we all survived it somehow, so if anything doesn't that make it a good luck charm instead?"

"Technically I saved your life. You know, healing powers." Tandy teased Sue and gave her friend a wink as she put the car in drive and drove down the driveway. "Sue, I believe in Heaven, Angels, Hell and Demons. There is magic in the world as we know from our fellow mutants. You can become invisible, I shoot daggers from my fingertips and Namor has wings on his ankles. And to answer your question, yes I do believe in bad luck."

"My powers make little logical sense," Namor stated seriously, "and aren't there a couple women in the mansion who can cause bad luck?"

And then, as an afterthought: "Sue, you should add the front drive to your list. Possibly the gardens."

"The gardens?" Sue queried glancing down at the now glowing pendant before giving the inside of the car a quick look over, "It can't be environmental, I mean there's nothing here that we'd see in the house...unless you're secretly smuggling some paint or furniture out of the mansion?" she asked Tandy with a laugh. "So it's gotta be something that came in with us." Sues brow wrinkled in thought as she stared at the pendant, "and we didn't bring anything in so it's gotta be one of us, unless someone else has found a weird piece of jewelry?"

"If it glows then you should take it to Topaz and Billy's teacher, Amanda. She would know if it is really magical and if it is harmful. Why is my mind traveling to Slenderworld? Quick someone change the subject!"

"Slenderworld?" Namor added unhelpfully before catching himself, "Wait. No. That's off topic." He edged up in his seat, trying to give the pendant a critical eye from the back. "Tandy, you said that your abilities were affected by the cave. Could the stone be siphoning your power?"

"Sorry horrible memories and it dealt with magic. Yea I touched a stone that suppressed my powers. I don't think the stone could be doing that. I mean I can tell, sort off. Ty has done it and I totally felt him taking my light. Sue, hand me your necklace." Tandy said as she pulled over to the side of the road.

Sue pulled the necklace up over her head and held it out to Tandy, "That would make sense," she agreed, "It might be tapping or storing your energy, only why didn't we notice it before?"

"Miss Storm, I find you a little too observant to have missed this. The two of you also spend a lot of time around each other, but Tandy's powers deal with illumination," Namor noted, features taut with concentration.

Sue nodded, "Yeah, I would have noticed if it had happened before." the girl noted with a puzzled look on her face, "I don't think it's Tandy, but we won't know till we check," the scientific method after all was the best way to approach a mystery like this. "Why don't you try walking away from the car, like 20 or 30 paces?" she asked her friend.

Tandy put the car in park and turned towards Namor as she was given the necklace, "Yea illumination that is light up from my life force. I have a really bright, shiny life force. I put three people into a coma including my real dad — may he never wake up — and maybe the stone likes life force. But that wouldn't explain why it isn't leeching off you." Turning towards Sue before turning off the car and getting out of the car. "Be back in a few." She walked around the car and off the road and towards the trees. She waited until she was out of view, mainly for their own protection before focusing her light onto the stone. Nothing happened as a dagger hit the stone. It didn't absorb it.

She came back from behind the tree with a crescent moon glowing around her right eye. "Nope. The dagger didn't do anything to the stone and I made sure it was a nice bright one just to be sure. Just a regular old stone that likes to glow." Tandy said as she got back into the car and put on her seat belt before handing back the necklace. "At least we know now it won't leech life force."

There were more than several awkward statements nestled in Tandy's explanation of her powers, but it was more the sneaking suspicion that he had something to do with the glowing stone that bothered Namor. He hated mysteries. The young man stiffened, resigning himself to the quizzical stare that Sue was gracing him with. He held up a hand, pleading, before breaking the silence, "I cannot make things glow. Just the swimming, punching, and flying."

"Well everyone has hidden talents they don't know about," Sue noted nodding at Tandy, "It isn't her and it isn't me so..." the blonde shrugged and grinned at Namor "We have to test all available possibilities." The teenager couldn't think why Namor could set off the pendant, but that was the scientific method, "we've eliminated everything else," she pointed out, "So congratulations, it looks like you can Swim, punch, fly and make stones glow now."

Tandy turned back on the car and started down the road again. "Making stones glow is a talent. Girls would pay big bucks for something like that." She teased.

Namor gave the two blondes his best withering stare. "To be fair, we have to test it," he said with a sigh. He held his hand out and beckoned.

"It's only logical," Sue agreed with a smile as she pointed Tandy towards another layby on the road, "We can let Namor out over here,".

Once again Tan pulled over to the side of the road and put the car in park before turning around and facing Namor. "Give it all you got." Tandy took the necklace from Sue and gave it to Namor, and, well... you could notice the results immediately.

It was like someone lit a beacon in the backseat. Blue-green light swam languidly over the car-seats, giving the interior an eerie cast. The accompanying groan of frustration that came with this lightshow was enough to paint a clear picture of Namor's delight in the situation.

Sue tore her eyes away from the now shining stone to take in the dissatisfied look in Namor's face, "Well I guess that answers that," she noted. "looks like you really do have the power to make the rock glow."

Tan smirk fell from her face when her car lid up with the blue-green light. "Sue, better add this to the list of Pro's for Namor." She reached back to get a better look of the stone. "Have you made other stones glow?"

"It isn't just that," Namor narrowed his eyes at the two blondes, tone cold, "Look." He extended his hand up between the two seats to showcase the bright stone, which now had a funny symbol ingrained on its surface. "Ingrained" was a poor descriptor — the texture of the stone was still smooth and polished. It merely now contained a squiggly rune that twitched every other second.

"Cheer up buttercup." Tandy said in response to his cold expression. Looking closely and bit her lower lip, "I don't recognize the rune. But it kind of looks like the ones down in that chamber from last summer."

"You think?" Sue asked looking askance at the pendant, "It just had to be magic," she muttered to herself unhappily. "At least it isn't zapping anyone or coming to life," she pointed out to the others.

Namor nodded in approval at Sue's assessment. "Magic isn't predictable. We cannot make any assumptions." What he didn't say was "I am also very uncomfortable that I can do something I don't understand," but it was heavily implied.

"Well, we can always ask Amanda. She would know for sure and it can't be a lot of magic otherwise Billy or Topaz would had picked it up. Right?"

"Not necessarily, the pendant's never really glowed before," Sue pointed out, "maybe they can't detect it unless it's activated. They didn't really sense the cave until it activated on us either."

"Well..." Namor started, "Miss Sefton acted oddly when I first met her, and Miss Topaz said there was something off about our meeting as well." He frowned a frown of someone who wasn't usually uncomfortable not being a center of attention. "It is likely not just the stone."

"Maybe you have another untapped power? I mean it happens, Adrienne said that some mutants like us have second or even more powers that won't manifest unless something happens." Seeing Namor's frown, Tan reached back and patted his hand. "We will figure it out."

"A secondary mutation? Yeah it could be that," Sue agreed tapping a finger against the pendant, "But since it's from the cave it's probably something magical," she reasoned, "Tan's right, we can figure this out, but I think you're right, it's not entirely teh stone, or it would have reacted before."

"My second mutation happened in the cave remember. But I think it was mostly due to the fact that the rune was suppressing my powers causing a build up." Looking at Sue and back at Namor. "If the stone never acted like that before and only did it for Namor does that mean they are connected?"

Namor's frown returned. "How do we test that?"

"I don't know," Sue replied reflecting Namor's frown as she stared at the pendant, "We'd have to get Dr Grey to check for a secondary mutation and expose the pendant to your powers in controlled bursts," she gave a wry grin, "Or maybe we can just go visit Miss Sefton, and see if she can test if it's magical."

"He could go to both. But my money is on magical." Tandy looked at her watch, "Oh shit we are so late. My uncle is going to give us that frown look of disappointment." She turned her attention back to driving once more.