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[littlecousin]

[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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[littlecousin]

[Nita would yell at him and he hates that.]

If they were doing it underwater, it's probably got similarities to Atlantean cloning tech.

[Not that she knows anything practical about Atlantean cloning.]

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[definingfuture]

[And that is why Nita is the one he'd rather deal with.]

Maybe. We don't know what kind of energy they're using. Saying everything runs on turtle power isn't all that specific, and the kedan don't really seem like the engineering type.

Unless you recognized something.

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[littlecousin]

Not really, sorry.

[There's a spark of engineering talent that runs in the family, but Nita has no training, especially given that cloning is banned in Atlantis.]

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[definingfuture]

Then we should probably see what we can turn up. Any new information is a start, and maybe we'll find out what's really going on.

[He's going with the practical answer there. Not the most considerate, but this is Tony.]

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[littlecousin]

Okay, I'll ask the Professor and Dr. Banner next time I see them. Dr. Banner might be kind of jumpy about it. His timeline is weird.

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[definingfuture]

His world is weird. But he'll understand. Just let him know it's a good lead.