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Who: Peggy Carter and YOU.
Broadcast: Fleet-wide, from inside the Marsiva.
Action: Y, for any other newcomers between now and the Shuffle.
When: This Week.

[ let us not dwell too long upon the awkward silences and humiliating nascent moments of agent carter's awakening. let it only be said that she woke with a start (despite the afforded comfort) and the broadcast didn't quite zoom in close enough to adequately witness the depth of her horror when she first raised a tentative hand to her forehead only to find an empty glass vial still sitting there. steve's blood had been poured away: returned to his native lands by way of the east river. both guilty and triumphant, she pockets the vial in her blazer and tells herself it's a problem for another time. after all--- ]

Bollocks. [ mistaking herself for a person alone, she swears. loudly and colourfully as she crosses the bay and knocks her knuckles against the too-intact viewing window separating herself from the rest of creation -- and no familiar blue-and-green marble in sight. peggy swears again: bollocks, damnit, and hell. unable to peer into the void for much longer, she turns her back on oblivion and is confronted once more with the too-sterile hospitality deck. she may be a tidy and precise sort of woman, but this much tidiness and precision makes her stomach turn. where is the stink of new york? the heat? the mess? the humanity?

feeling charged with purpose, she springs into (moderate) action. feeling alarmingly comfortable with technology she swears she's never seen before, she plays her fingers across a panel she doesn't know will connect her to the rest of a whol damned fleet -- but she's left with the burning certainty that it'll connect her with someone. imperiously: ]

I would speak with the individual -- or individuals -- in charge of this operation. Believe me when I stress there is a whole bloody cavalcade of laws, both domestic and international, you're breaking by holding me here. I demand to...

[ some of the fire floods from her belly. a little desperate, she changes tactics: ] Is anyone there? Hello?

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Well, no. They don't have any cameras anywhere besides our communicators- One person theorized that the implants use our eyes as cameras, but I don't think first-person view makes for a good show. They've never offered us any proof, and I don't think they have any incentive to be honest with us, since they really don't care about being upfront anyway, since we've been taken against our will.

There's enough evidence that they're lying that I would believe it anyway. That it lets me keep functioning here is an added bonus.

[ wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. hold the telegram: ]

Implants? What implants?

[ yeesh. ]

... You haven't picked up on the extra knowledge in your head?

I've always been very -- [ clever. she doesn't finish the sentence. peggy bites her bottom lip and touches her temple. an innate understanding of these communication systems hadn't rocked her boat too viciously: after all, she'd been recruited and promoted based upon her intuition in these sorts of situations. ]

Is that what explains the pedal note of a headache?

Maybe? The situation should be enough to explain the headache anyway.

Touch right here.

[She demonstrates, placing her fingers right behind her ear to touch the bump caused by her own implant.]

[ and touch right here she does -- only to have her fingertips met with a raised lump: something hard and present beneath the skin. obvious enough, now, to put a shiver into her bones.

bloody hell. ]

-- Things are worse than I first imagined.

They're worse than that, even. If you had any weapon, you've been disarmed. They took away my staffs.

[ peggy wants to say that she's never truly disarmed -- but that's childish and petulant, so she stops herself. ]

Is that your tool of choice, then? Staves?

[She shrugs.]

I'm a mage. I can use a staff, a mace, or a wand in a pinch, but staffs are the best, since they make my magic stronger.

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