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[littlecousin]

[Nita has been uncharacteristically absent from, well, everything lately, because she's been curled up on the couch having an identity crisis. But now she's on the network! She looks fine, if disgruntled. Unusually for her, she's posting from a console cafe, in Fire Sector if the view behind her is anything to go by.]

Uh. Can someone come get me? I can't navigate on the ground.

[Yeah, she managed to wander, on foot, as far from her apartment as it's possible to be and still be in Keeliai, and she's finally given up on finding her own way home because everything looks the same. Good job, Nita.]

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[faceofthe4]

[Johnny listens silently, pensively. Once she finishes, he still looks just at thoughtful, almost bordering on concerned.]

Did your Reed and Sue retire? Did they quit the team to go be together?

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[littlecousin]

Huh? No. They've taken vacations, but they always come back. The world needs the Fantastic Four.

[This idea is inconceivable to Nita.]

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[faceofthe4]

Mine were talking about leaving. The only thing that stopped them was the Surfer and my blood being screwed up.

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[littlecousin]

Well, I don't know what they talk about just among the team, but I do know no one's ever quit permanently, no matter how burned out or mad they were. I missed a lot of stuff because of the time travel, though, so who knows.

[Ben or Johnny are pretty much always ragequitting. It never sticks.]

...What's wrong with your blood?

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[faceofthe4]

[Ignoring that question.]

I need to get back and make sure they stay a team. Every time I think this place can't get worse, it does. What if we don't get our powers back?

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[littlecousin]

[Under other circumstances, she might press, but Nita's just about out of cope herself.]

I.

I'm trying not to think about it.

[She's lost a lot more than Johnny has--even ignoring the disappearance of her mutant gift, she hasn't fallen back to the baseline for her species; she's fallen below it, her gills sealed and her deep-water physiology gone.]

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[faceofthe4]

Yeah, well. That's not good enough for me. We can't just pretend this isn't happening.

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[littlecousin]

Johnny Storm, you think I'm pretending this isn't happening? Forget about losing powers! My gills closed. I didn't just stop being a mutant. I stopped being an Atlantean.

[That's the first time she's put the feeling into words, and she folds in on herself.]

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[faceofthe4]

[He frowns, suddenly very concerned and genuinely worried for her.]

We'll get them back.