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[Nita is looking perkier than she has since the Malicant mess started. She's also looking moist, since, with the return of her gills, she's been spending most of her time underwater, and only came up now to make a network post. And, last of all, she's looking concerned, because there's something that's been bothering her, and she just can't figure it out.]

I'm not even close to a magical theorist or anything, and there's gotta be someone who knows more about this stuff than I do... I have a question.

How did some of us lose things we always had? Like, I understand, sort of, how Captain America--sorry, Cap, I'm gonna use you as an example--could lose his powers, 'cause he got them from an experiment. I even kind of get how mutant powers like my ankle wings could go away, because they're genetic but they're not really normal. But my gills--and the other Atlanteans' gills--closed up! That's not special! Every member of our species has those!

What's going on with this place that it can take away ordinary things?

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That's good...

[...but why did he get weird about it when she asked? Oh, well. She'll corner him later. Nita knows "pushover" vibes when she gets 'em.]

...I knew they had a daughter.

[Nooooooo there were no pushover vibes emanating from him, none whatsoever. Nita, you're confused.]

They have a son too. Franklin. [Except he was pretty sure she knew that already.] And now they have ten more kids that aren't theirs.

Dude, I know that. I used to babysit Franklin.

[Gosh, Scott. She was free Richards childcare long before you were!]

...But that's a lot of extra kids.

[YOU SEEMED CONFUSED, OK. He was just being a good Samaritan. Or something like that.]

Don't look at me. I didn't ask where they picked them up from. [Tiiiny shrug.] It's a Future Foundation thing.

[That rings a bell somewhere off in the distance.]

Future Foundation...Robbie mentioned something about that.

[Can we bring that bell closer....Scott has no idea who Robbie is but he's more than happy to elaborate.]

It's like college for kids. Very smart, rainbow-colored kids who are all very bad at listening to directions.

Robbie said, uh... [Nita thinks, trying to remember. This was a while ago for her.] Dr. Richards told off a bunch of scientists at a conference and announced he was starting the Future Foundation and that some of them are still mad.

[This is a particularly weird game of Telephone.]

I thought it was weird 'cause Dr. Richards has always been really nice.

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