"I'm Bored," said Nina, plopping her head down in her hands, her elbows propped upon her knees as she sat upon the overhang, legs dangling over the edge.
"Are you kidding me?" Victor replied, "We just finished a tour of the 7 Wonders of the World, literally 15 seconds ago, and you are bored ALREADY?" Victor was standing behind her and to her right on the ledge, overlooking modern Cairo. His hands rose from his side, as he ruffled them through his long blonde hair, in distress.
"Yeah...it was fun...but what now?" Nina asked, drawing out the now in a way that made Victor's spine crawl.
"You're impossible. You are literally impossible to please, you know that?" Victor responded, tossing his hands in the air as he walked away exasperated.
"What's that supposed to mean!" the small, cute girl responded. Nina was wearing an outfit that looked like something out of an anime, something only young teenagers at a convention somewhere in Hong Kong or Beijing would wear, but looked still darling on the young white girl, he hair draped in front of her shoulders, braided neatly in two parts, each end completed with a pink bow. Her outfit, too, was alternating pink and white, featuring an adorable combination of ballet shoes and tights and an oversized dress. She couldn't have been older than 11, but in this outfit she looked closer to 7.
"It means," Victor replied slowly, with a growing tone of frustration, "that the prospects of pleasing you, in terms of a percentage, are roughly or literally equivalent TO ZERO!"
Enunciating the final words as a whispered grunt, Victor fell backwards onto the sandbank behind them. The two sat in silence for some time.
"Can I go play?" Nina asked after a long pause, starring at the Hector's splayed form, as it slowly sunk deeper into the dune.
At first, Victor did not respond. Then, almost as soon as the drawled word "Pleeeaaaasss-" began to leave her mouth, he shot up and shouted, "Yes! Fine! Go! I can feel the boredom of some other girls too, why don't you cure your's and there's at the same time! Take the coins, but make sure you play fair," he finished, sternly.
Nina leaped up and down on the stone blocks, "Hooray, Hooray, the Coin Game, the Coin Game!" and then vanished in a blink.
Victor continued to lay on the dune for some time. "That was probably a mistake. In fact, that was certainly a mistake." With a long sigh, he drew himself up. He stood for a long time, staring deeply into the distance but as if he was not looking at something so much as thinking deeply, and with great concern. His brow rapidly furrowed as he looked outward, and finally his right eye began to twitch, "HOW DID SHE DO THAT!" He yelled, "I teleported her, and she masked her trace...Ooooo Hide and Seek's always been her favorite, even over the Coin Game, and playing two games at once is the only thing that ever satisfies her...Even as I showed her the world wonders, she wasn't satisfied unless she was zapping or morphing or affecting passersby as we went. Curse you, Dominic, for sticking me with this girl!"
With that final declaration, and a huff, Victor snatched up a cape which he had discarded on the sandstone blocks. In a blink, as he appeared to spiral the cape to adorn himself with it, he vanished into thin air.
Completely oblivious on the other side of the world, two teenage girls sat in their new high school's Atrium, postured with boredom much as Nina had been, unaware of the game in which they were now involved...