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Who: Kate Bishop and YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Lavandula + the Iskaulit.
When: Today

Ow, for futz sake -- [ the feed is shaky, at first -- as though the device and its owner has just fallen from some middling height. but it soon settles steady on an image of kate bishop -- bruised, dirty, but ultimately fine. although she's stubbornly wearing purples more often alligned with the spirit faction, she has alligned herself quite naturally with moxie -- deigning to at least braid white and gold ribbons into her black hair. sitting up on the poorly terra-formed ground, the feed reveals she's dressed in a superbly tailored hawkeye costume made from strong fabrics and flattering lines.

over her shoulder looms lavandula's tower. the intrepid young avenger followed the trills of a mysterious and now finds she herself thoroughtly defeated by the tower's bizarre internal architecture. this isn't the first time she's taken a tumble.

grumpily: ] This place is worse than a funhouse. [ ... ] Paging any and all Fleet folk -- anyone manage to track down this freaky-deaky flute music on Lavandula? All I'm finding are doors shut in my face. Not loving it.

[ LATER, she's back at the rehabilitation centre. she pays her modest fee and gets herself patched up -- bandages and all. so, once she takes a shuttle back to the iskaulit and shows up for work at málum, she's still looking a little worse for wear. take pity on her, málum patrons, because her usual bartender flair is suddenly subdued: she's got one arm in a sling. she'll still serve you, though. and with a smile! ...probably. ]

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-- I'm not sure if that's better or worse.

[ cuz on the one hand, they don't know about the awkward things making everything awkward. on the other hand, he wouldn't be able to stop being awkward meaning they'd have no idea why this weirdo stranger is being awkward around them, making everything awkward again. ]

Here's the kicker: pretty sure Wanda Maxmioff can, like, read minds or something...

[ actually she's not certain about that but reality benders and magic-users are weird okay. it's just a guess. ]

Wanda like - Avengers Wanda? She's the - mom? [ this is the second time in as many days he's talking about wanda and he can't help but get the feeling that that means something's gonna go down there. ]

Sorta. It's -- [ hah. at this point, it's entirely too cliche to describe the situation as 'complicated'... ]

She's not quite so young, back home. And she's been an Avenger at least as long as Clint, too. [ so, years and years and years. ] Both her, uhm, 'sons' [ full on bunny-ear finger quotations ] are my teammates.

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Back up - ok - [ he rubs his face, trying to work it all out. ] are there two Wandas now?

There are two versions of home -- with two versions of Wanda. The one I'm used to? She's older, and the Avengers have been around for decades. I guess the Wanda who's here in the fleet is from a world where the Avengers are relatively new.

[ and kate doesn't seem to exist. ]

See that's what I thought - the Wanda here is from the same reality as Steve, Vision, and Tony, right? I see what you mean by sorta parents - is the dad also from another reality, or from yours?

[ keeping up with avengers and x-men timelines in the fleet is a full time job. ]

-- Another. Same as hers. It's...oh, jeez. Promise this stays between you and me, please?

[ they really don't need another m-day happening. in space. ok. ]

As long as we stipulate that the Atroma messing with my head or someone hacking the feed don't count -- I promise. That I won't willingly tell is the best I can do here.

Oh, gee, that's a good point. [ ... ] Maybe it's better for all of us if it goes unsaid.

Yeah...unfortunately data security is pretty impossible around here.

And I guess I'm just not...all that used to having secrets. [ it makes it tough, here. to suddenly have to think about what she's saying. ]

[ in a way he's got the opposite problem. he's used to hiding everything he's going through and here people constantly want him to open up and talk about it. ]

That and the cool suit's what you keep me around. Change of subject - so what were you doing, anyway?

Someone was playing a flute. [ she thinks. ] I wanted to find them. Turns out it wasn't so simple as just...finding them.

Following sounds can be tricky, our ears can deceive us - measurements - not so much. [ rubbing his chin as he considers it ] Why hide a flutist though, unless it's a pied piper kinda deal?

[ every planet is a clue, he's sure of it. this might be this system's clue but if it that could mean another terrible thing happening if they pursue it. he really hates this setup a lot. ] What you need is a particle velocity probe. [ and that thought makes him smile ] Cool - I always wanted to play with one of those.

Do you just have a gadgety answer to everything?

[ holding a hand up to indicate she should hold on, he sets the comm aside. for a minute, all she sees is his work desk and all she hears are sounds of stuff getting moved around. then his face comes back into the picture, but only for a second as he turns the camera around and point it to his creation - random little bits of tech (phone and speakers, microscope, unidentified prototypes in the works) spelling out the word 'yes' on the floor. ]

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