Windrose June Mingle!

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Who: SS Windrose + Visitors
Broadcast: Unlikely
Action: SS Windrose
When: June — anytime!

[Now featuring bathroom rank II for all your bathtub and and additional ten minutes of water per hour needs! We also have more and faster shuttles! Just last month we made it to actual double-sized beds for all your double-sized fun. Special features include a hanging medicinal herb garden in the cargo bay complete with bacon-flavored kelp and Officer Snuggles the resident security fox!

Please enjoy your stay. Unless you're The Stalker. There's a sandwich bag waiting for you.]

Comments

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It happens. I can't stay phased all the time. [But even then she's a well-trained, experienced fighter so getting a hit in isn't exactly easy. She had sparred with Winter before and he was formidable, but like he was that day he was just driven.] I couldn't really tell you how it happened. I came out of it with a concussion. I don't remember the hit or how we left things. Just that we were separated and I was trying to tend to the bleeding.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda sighs. The guilty look returning to her face. She recognizes that none of what happened had been her fault, or Winter's for that matter. Still, had she and Steve gotten there faster, perhaps they could have kept the number of injured down.]

Did he say anything? While you were fighting?

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Silence. I was trying to get through to him. Hoping to jar him out of whatever it was. Didn't get there. Maybe it couldn't have been done. [Or maybe it would have just taken someone who knew him better.]

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda nods her head. It had been the same when she and Steve confronted him. Even Steve's presence only seemed to give him pause for a fraction of a second.]

Whatever it was that happened... I do not know if it is something that is easily undone. Only time seems to cause it to wear off.

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Or the Atroma releasing him. Unless you think it's something that happened without their interference? [That would be worse, wouldn't it?]

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda sighs, her eyes searching. She did not have all the information--at least, not yet. She had clues though.]

I think it is both. Something that was put into his head before he even arrived here. Something that the Atroma somehow knew or found out about, and something they apparently decided to take advantage of.

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You think they triggered it this time but maybe next time will be different?

[notmutantbutmiracle]

I don't know.

[She wishes she had a better answer for Kitty.]

Whatever it is though-- whatever made Winter act that way, I do not think it is something that happens just by accident.

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Have you talked to him about it? Maybe he knows the trigger? Of course I'd understand if he didn't want to hand it out.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda shakes her head. It had been a while since she last spoke with Winter, and even then...]

He's not really the talkative type. About anything really.

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Good point. I have noticed that about him.

Does he talk to Steve?

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[A shrug.]

Your guess is as good as mine.

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Right.

Well, anyway... Were you here visiting Vision?

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[At that, Wanda's notably seems to perk up. Though, she had naturally been concerned for Kitty, and it was important to her to make sure her friends were all right. Their conversation had caused her to totally lose sight of why she had come to visit the Windrose in the first place.]

Oh! Yes, I had almost forgotten what I'd came here for.

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[Kitty smiles.] I'm sure he's around here somewhere. I won't keep you.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[There's something about Kitty's smile... it felt familiar to the way Wrath had referred to her directly as Vision's "special friend." Like, somehow, everyone seemed to know all about the feelings she'd been harboring but trying to hide. Clearly, she must not be doing a good job at all... She almost feels like she needs to say something, but decides that would seem more obvious. Instead, she just tries to seem nonchalant and smile back--though the slight shading of pink in her cheeks might give her away.]

Thanks.

Yeah, I'll... go see if I can find him again... or reach him on the communicator.