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Moment of Awesome - Sooraya Qadir An attempt to have a normal outing with Cecilia Reyes is interrupted by a news story about ISIS and leads to a talk about being who you are. Sooraya did notice a quick glance in her direction, but she let out a small sigh of relief as the waitress said she'd see what she could do. When the waitress had gone, Sooraya sipped her coffee and quickly glanced around before lowering her voice. "It would have been really 'nice' if someone could have warned me about this." She gestured at the television. "This travesty..." "What, that people are assholes?" Cecilia shrugged. "That can't be helped." "People being assholes is nothing new. That is more then being assholes. That is people being inhuman." Sooraya's eyes glittered. "And in the name of Allah. They are a thousandfold worse then Sayyid ever was." "Oh, those people. I thought you meant..." Cecilia gestured around them. She didn't quite know who Sayyid was, but she was smart enough to use context clues. "Well. That's brutal and inconceivable and a perversion. And I can't imagine how it must feel to see that." "I have had a few... encounters with people with at least a somewhat similar philosophy." Even if that had been in another world. "But none actually did something like this. Or any of the other things that had happened that had not happened before M-Day." "Yeah. That." Cecilia pursed her lips and looked down at her coffee. "I don't know. It's weird what extremes people will go to, I guess." She leaned forward and her voice grew quieter. "Look at how people are reacting to us these days." "We only have to look at history to see how far people might go." Sooraya had done the same, leaning forward and speaking softer. She had already caught a few glares as the TV volume had been reduced and she did not need the double number of glares. "Though it's a lot more frightening when it's actually turned at you then just reading about it." Cecilia frowned and tilted her head ever-so-slightly. "Are you... have people been saying things to you?" Well, there was a laugh. As if being a woman of color was easy. As if being a mutant of color wasn't harder. And that was without people using your religion to justify slaughter. "Here and there. A lot of glares, some remarks..." Sooraya sighed. "I think you know what I am talking about though. It's not even overtly threatening, but I still feel like I am walking around with a double target painted on my back."