It's a fine time, yeah; she doesn't want to mingle yet but she can handle one person.

(Yay!)

"Hi! I'm Reve, local dungeon esper," she says with a bright smile. "You from around here?" (She certainly looks young enough to be local, and for this to be her first mixer in the area.)

"We live out east," she agrees. So it depends on what she means by local.

"Oooh, Spokane area? I was there for a dungeon, once, it felt like being in a different state entirely." She pauses a bit. "Wanna test compatibility?" She holds up her hand, palm-out fingers-spread.

"Closer to the Tri-Cities. -- that's why I'm here." She starts to reach her hand out, and then stops, remembering something. "I'm Foreshadow."

"Oh! Makes sense." Right, codenames. "Ooooh, Foreshadow is a good one - I'm Hourglass."

"I went through quite a few ideas before I found that was free, but I like it. Hourglass is pretty too. You do -- something with time? -- I'm a precog."

Ooooh, precog! "Yeah, I can make zones of slowed time! It comes in handy a lot, in dungeons."

(...She keeps her hand held up, mildly self-consciously.) 

Right, right. "That sounds really useful too." Poke?

Oh! That's nice. (Plausibly a bit less than the backlashed white-haired man earlier, but she didn't touch him for very long and she still doesn't know his name, so.)

That is nice. "Oh," she says, blankly.

(Ophira doesn't have backlash; Zara sat with her until she was clear, after testing.)

Awww. Reve smiles.

 "-wanna hold hands?" her mouth says, before her brain can catch up and evaluate whether or not this is a reasonable thing to say.

Foreshadow blushes! But takes her hand.

Reve blushes too! Though it doesn't stop her from smiling. (Compatible handholding!)

"Are you looking to do dungeon work?"

"It seems like the thing to do? If I can warn people, stop them from getting injured or worse..." she shrugs. "It only tells me bad things, and I can only do a few minutes out without -- the backlash cost isn't linear. Dungeons seem like -- the place it's most often true a minute's warning would make a big difference, even when I don't know more than that there's a problem."

Argent dug up a study on DRT casualty rates (it was investigating how various equipment choices help, but that wasn't what she cared about as much), and -- she knows combat espers don't tend to live to fifty.

(...Reve is a combat esper, probably. ...she is not going to unpack that right now.)

"Yeah, that'd be really useful! Advance warning for ambushes, or if we've gone the wrong way or there's some other kind of danger we're not aware of..." Reve trails off, slightly lost in thought.

"I'm not sure if I could tell if you'd gone the wrong way for a victim unless it's dangerous -- for them or for you -- but I think I could do -- ambushes, traps..."

Shrug. "They had some mice, for power testing, and I couldn't tell how they were going to hurt them, but I could tell which, usually. And where, sometimes, in the maze." (She does not sound very happy about this method of power testing.)

Oh. "I'm sorry. Power testing can be rough, sometimes." She squeezes Foreshadow's hand, gently.

"They had me test mine on fish and rats, too, but I think it just confused them."

Squeeze. (They euthanized the one that was hurt badly and survived. She asked. Day would think that's better, probably. She doesn't know if she does.)

"That seems... better." (...she abruptly feels bad for combat espers with more directly harmful powers.) "I don't know how else you'd test mine, except for having me sit in on a lot of dangerous situations and see what I caught, and..."

Maybe if she'd awakened another time, she would have pushed harder for that. "You can't use it as well, then."

"Yeah, it wasn't so bad." (Reve shifts her arm a bit to increase skin contact.) "I'm not sure how else you'd test it, either, if it only really pings on danger." She sighs. "You'll be able to help a lot of people with it, though." (Including Reve, maybe, if she wants to do dungeons together,)

"I hope so! -- sorry, we were talking about dungeons."

"It's okay! But yeah, an early danger warning would be really good in dungeons... my power is really good in that kind of situation but only if I react quickly, I was in a spider-themed dungeon yesterday and  they kept trying to jump us from above. My neck was sore afterwards from spending the entire time looking up..." 

"You can -- pause them in the air enough to move? That's cool. Other than the sore neck."

"I can slow things down a fair bit, yeah. It gave us time to react and it made our pyromancer's flames a lot more efficient - I have that kind of effect on a lot of powers that cause problems in an area, slowing stuff down in the danger zone for allies to handle." She's not so useful alone, but that's okay. She likes being part of a team.

"...do you have a usual team you work with, or does it depend?"