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tushanshu2012-09-29 02:11 pm
notahawkingbird) wrote in tushanshu2012-09-29 02:11 pm
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[ For a moment, the video appears to be stuck, as if in pause. The girl looking slightly askew of the camera is very still, and only the faint flutter of wind disturbing the bits of dark baby-hair sticking out from the top of her head indicates that the feed is, in fact, perfectly fine--
--and then, she snaps out of it, face gaining back it's animation and she blows her cheeks out, follows it up with a deep breath and nods. ]
So, uh.
Right.
[ Her hands come up in a sort of surrender, sort of awkward 'Hi, this is me' because wow this is weird, video calls when she is in her pajamas. Her salt-water-soaked-but-nevertheless-now-dry pajamas.
It is not comfortable. She doesn't mind Skyping with friends while dressed in her bedtime clothes, but wow, not like this.
She shakes her head, runs her fingers through her hair and huffs: ]
Okay let me start over.
[ The change is subtle, but the difference is huge. Shoulders straightened but not tense, she looks directly into the camera with purpose and suddenly it doesn't matter what she looks like. ]
Hello, my name is Katherine Bishop and I've just arrived in the city.
I've been appraised by the people who fished me out of the water on what little they seem to feel they can divulge, so you can consider this a shout-out to anyone who can supply me information that will give me a better idea of Turtle Land.
I haven't seen the city much, but I'm a keen observer and no stranger to tension in the atmosphere when I see it.
[ There's a brief and considering pause before she continues in a less blunt tone that leans more to negotiation. ] I have currently nothing to trade with or pay you by for the information and I know I don't really look like much at the moment, but I guarantee that I can offer you my resume and list of skillsets if you require all of that in writing.
[ A beat.] Also, if there is anyone from home out there who sees this, please drop me a message. I'm not even going to lie, guys. It would be awesome to see familiar faces right about now. [ There's a faint twitch of a smile at the corner of her mouth before she reaches over and the feed goes dark. ]
--and then, she snaps out of it, face gaining back it's animation and she blows her cheeks out, follows it up with a deep breath and nods. ]
So, uh.
Right.
[ Her hands come up in a sort of surrender, sort of awkward 'Hi, this is me' because wow this is weird, video calls when she is in her pajamas. Her salt-water-soaked-but-nevertheless-now-dry pajamas.
It is not comfortable. She doesn't mind Skyping with friends while dressed in her bedtime clothes, but wow, not like this.
She shakes her head, runs her fingers through her hair and huffs: ]
Okay let me start over.
[ The change is subtle, but the difference is huge. Shoulders straightened but not tense, she looks directly into the camera with purpose and suddenly it doesn't matter what she looks like. ]
Hello, my name is Katherine Bishop and I've just arrived in the city.
I've been appraised by the people who fished me out of the water on what little they seem to feel they can divulge, so you can consider this a shout-out to anyone who can supply me information that will give me a better idea of Turtle Land.
I haven't seen the city much, but I'm a keen observer and no stranger to tension in the atmosphere when I see it.
[ There's a brief and considering pause before she continues in a less blunt tone that leans more to negotiation. ] I have currently nothing to trade with or pay you by for the information and I know I don't really look like much at the moment, but I guarantee that I can offer you my resume and list of skillsets if you require all of that in writing.
[ A beat.] Also, if there is anyone from home out there who sees this, please drop me a message. I'm not even going to lie, guys. It would be awesome to see familiar faces right about now. [ There's a faint twitch of a smile at the corner of her mouth before she reaches over and the feed goes dark. ]
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[ Expert on superhero histories, Kate is not. ] I'd honestly refer you to two of my friends if they were here? They're huge superhero fanboys and know most of this stuff better than me.
Ah. The former's the one I was talking about. [ sly grin ] So what's it like, meeting your alternate universe counterpart's granddaughter?
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Brief? Kate, you're waaay too kind. That's sixty years...] Steve? Yeah, I'm pretty sure Steve has no idea what you might mean. Plus, I kind of am past the whole working for anyone else, back home.[Shrugs.]
Who'd the Russians need to spy on? Germans? [Last he heard, Russians were allies, after all. Ahem.]
Heh. Gotta say it was almost more of a shock than - waking up here in the first place. But other than the fact that she doesn't seem likely to be going back, either, the good variety. It's been a long while since I've had blood relatives.
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She's trying not to freak him out? /coughShe smiles awkwardly through the video feed, feeling a little sheepish. ] There was um, some conflict between America and Russia after... years after the second world war [ she shakes her head ] I don't want to talk your ear off with history though. But... yeah.[ You worked for the 'enemy' sounds like too harsh a way to put it. And she wasn't even born back then so it feels wrong to say it out loud in that particular manner of phrasing.
So she switches topics, and manages to surprise herself when the next words out of her mouth are: ]
Do you think the turtle chooses the people it brings here for special reasons? [ and because she's started -- and it would be awkward to no explain -- she ducks her head, looking away when she continues ] I-I mean... do you think there's a reason it takes people who have... [ died ] would have otherwise passed on?
[ She didn't mean to think of Cassie and Vision. It just happened. ]
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[But he shrugs. He can take a change of topic when it's blatant enough.]
One, it's not the turtle that has anything to do with it. Apparently, it's the Emperor who does the whole magic thing and bringing us here and all. But she's been known to say it's not a very precise process.
And she's trying to bring in heroes. I think that might matter more than... whether we were alive or dead to begin with. And that's a weird thing to say.