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[Wanda learned years ago how to hide her true feelings behind a calm, almost bored expression. She knew how to control her body language to seem relaxed when she wasn't, and how to rely on subtle nuances of tone to get her point across. So it's not difficult to hide the anxiousness and tension she feels in her Water sector suite. She's separated from her brother, really separated, for the first time in her life, and also from the team she's come to trust and rely on. In some ways, she even considered them her friends.

Lips pursed, she flips on the console in her suite and leans back in her chair, by all appearances entirely unruffled by her current circumstances. Dressed in her Ultimates uniform, she crosses one leg over the other and periodically takes sips from the glass of water in her hand.

Those familiar with her alternate universe counterpart might notice a striking resemblance to the Scarlet Witch they know. Though she's at least ten years younger, her hair darker and straighter, and her uniform entirely different, her face and bearing are remarkably similar.]

As it seems highly unlikely that our hosts have provided full and completely honest details about our situation here, I'd appreciate any insight you all may have, or information they may have neglected to to give me during their orientation.

[After a brief pause she continues, though the words are completely foreign to Wanda.]

It also appears to be required that I find work as well. Unless anyone's spoken to a man by the name of Fury recently, recommendations as to where I might begin looking would also be welcome.

[She ends the transmission without offering her name or listing any of her affiliations save that of Nick Fury. Those who know her will contact her, she's certain, and perhaps those familiar with Fury will as well. Anyone else she has no intention of enlightening any more than is absolutely necessary. Not until she gets a better impression of the climate of the city and the other foreigners living in it.]

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From going swimming?

[What?]

It's like super difficult to explain but I got to see my future after getting shoved in a pool for a price. [He shrugged.] I wanted to see the guy everyone from home knew. [Going by his expression and tone of voice, he didn't like it.]

[Now that...that seems a dangerous thing. She doesn't miss that he's a young man who took a risk and perhaps regrets it.]

Did you see all of your future? Or only...certain moments? Only so far?

[He shakes his head slowly.]

So far, but far enough to know some things. It was uh...weird. Like really weird, it was like watching a trailer? A long trailer. So not everything I saw was for long, like flashes?

[His eyes open wider and he shakes his head again as if snapping out of something.]

Soooo that's stuff that can and has happened on the turtle.

[It's her turn to shake her head, in disbelief. That it's possible, that it's offered, and that someone would take up that option to see their future...it seems as if toying with forces that shouldn't be messed with. But then they seem to have no issue with time and space and alternate dimensions, so she supposes she shouldn't be surprised.]

Are you aware of any others having done so?

[He had to know, had to see the guy he was meant to become and the one all the people from his world knew. There was things he saw that he was furious about and the fact those people never told him.

Kon shrugs.]

Not personally, but I'm sure there has been.

That's too bad. I would have liked to speak with them. Who did you have to speak with to arrange this...swim in a pool? One of the kedan, I presume?

[Not that she has reason to do it herself, but anyone who can poke around with time-related things is a person she wants to speak with about getting everyone back where they belong. In their own worlds, at the right times.]

I went to the palace when I heard they were having an audience and asked if there was anything they could do. Said I'd pay for it if I could. Emperor wasn't there, it was Evandau, really don't like the guy.

Didn't actually expect for it to be okay. Thought he'd say no and I'd leave. Kinda wish he did.

[Wanda is sympathetic to his plight, but having not experienced anything similar herself, she has little to say on the matter.]

Whatever happens in your future back in your home world is not necessarily something that will happen here. Better that you focus on what you can here and now, than linger overmuch on what you learned.

Oh yeah, I get that. I mean there's none of the factors here that make me possibly go down that route. So it's cool I guess. Some things happen that remind me though, but I get through it.

Oh man! I don't even think I've asked your name!

[Wanda hasn't been going out of her way to offer her name to many people, at times giving the last name Maximoff instead of Lehnsherr, but so many people seem to know her here that she wonders if it serves any purpose.]

It's Wanda. And yours?

Nice to meet ya Wanda, even if it is here. I'm Kon.

[He was someone Wanda didn't have to worry about. He didn't know anything about her. This version or the one other people seemed to be worried about. To him, she's just some cute lookin' girl from who knows where.]

The same to you, Kon. I appreciate all of the information you've provided. You've given me a great deal to think about and look into.

I trust if I have more questions, I can ask you at a later date and time?

No problem. I'm totally open to helping out. So you can count on it!

[Nodding, she manages a smile. He's been exceedingly helpful, open, and so far as she can tell, honest. While young, he seems to have not only experience but a great deal of time in the city behind him. She'd do well to keep good ties with him, especially as he doesn't appear to be from any version of her world.

So much the better that she doesn't have her reputation or that of the other Wanda to get past with everyone on the turtle.]

I will. I think I'll take some time now to settle in and go over some of what I've learned from you and the others now, however. My thanks again.

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