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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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It seems like both. Things have broken through it before, but it's never been good.

How often? Under what circumstances?

Once, when the turtle dived, zombies broke through the barrier and started infecting people. And then there was the ship that fell out of the sky a short while ago.

I heard about the satellite, but zombies? Surely you're joking.

[Actual undead? Underwater? Really? Really?]

I'm not. It was horrible. [ And they don't actually have zombie stories on Krypton, so it was especially strange. ]

How were they stopped?

[Because they're not here right now so something must have been done.]

Most of them were beaten back, and they didn't return after the turtle resurfaced.

I see.

[It sounds oddly convenient, but Wanda's only just arrived and so she has no first-hand experience herself.]

Do you have any specific information about this barrier around the turtle?

[ She shakes her head. ]

I haven't done any research on it, and if any is available I haven't been told. I only know that it's there and that I should be careful of it.

It seems I'll have a great many things to investigate.

[Wanda inclines her head.]

And many things to consider. If you'll excuse me, I believe I will take some time to gather my thoughts, Miss Zor-el.

Of course. It was nice talking to you, Miss Maximoff.

And you.

[Nodding in farewell, she disconnects.]