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Kiran rubs the edge of her name tag in her pocket. She’d taken it off right after she’d stuck it on - everyone with a name tag had looked so fussy, so unenthused with the wonder of anything at all that she hadn’t wanted to keep it in place, just in case it caught.
It’s a silly thought, but that’s fine. Everyone’s allowed silly thoughts sometimes, just so long as it isn’t all the time.
She had wandered off - with the permission of her parents, of course - to look around as they went to their lecture. She loves archaeology! But she’s always more in the mood to observe than to sit. Who needs meetings and speeches when you can have hands-on work?
It looks like another girl had had the same idea as her. She looks around the same age, too, and she’s examining an urn, one with Zeus. Kiran shakes her head. England’s museum exhibits are always patchwork, but this is on another level entirely.
“Seems out of place, doesn’t it?” she muses aloud. The girl turns back, surprised, and Kiran beams her brightest (ha!) smile at her. Meeting someone her own age is always an opportunity for a new friend.
“Sorry?” she asks. She seems familiar, somehow, but Kiran knows they’ve never met before. She has a good memory - her parents say it’s from hearing so many tales from the Ramayana as a kid. Not that she doesn’t now, but she reads about them more often than she hears them lately.
Still, if she can remember all that, who’s to say she can’t remember someone’s name?
“The urn,” Kiran offers. “Greek mythology in a museum of natural history.”
The other girl’s face softens, a little. Her name tag says Cassie.
Cassie, Kiran muses. Now where does she know her from?
Cassie, with long blond hair and brown eyes. She has red star earrings that look nothing like Kiran’s own gold hoops. She doesn’t look as comfortable in her own skin as Kiran feels. But then again, Kiran’s got her light. What does Cassie have?
“I guess they figure it’s got animals on it so it’s fair game,” Cassie jokes. Kiran laughs.
“So does a box of animal crackers,” she jokes back.
“Good point. Although I bet we could find them in the gift shop,” says Cassie. Her smile reaches her eyes for just a second. And oh! That’s why Kiran recognizes her! She’s Wonder Girl, she’s been on the news!
Kiran laughs, warming up to Cassie even more. Another superpowered girl, but this time she’s an actual superhero, like her!
Kiran hasn’t officially or publicly debuted, but she’s experienced enough to be able to change into her hero outfit in a matter of seconds with the cover of a large flash of light, and to carry her armor around with her. And to have come up with a name.
Maybe she and Cassie can even team up if they need to. Wonder Girl, and Solstice. A duo, good friends, like Rama and Hanuman. They can build a different type of bridge, one of friendship across a - well, it would be a real ocean, wouldn’t it?
Cassie smiles carefully at her. Kiran touches her hand to her star necklace and beams back. She quite likes this friendship already.