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Who: Natasha Romanoff
Broadcast: Fleedwide
Action: Iskaulit to start with
When: 16 Nov

Video

[The broadcast is brief and obviously accidental. A young girl's face appears on screen, confused and tense, then almost at once her brows draw down and together in an intense frown. Her expression is dark and thoughtful as the feed shakes, then cuts out entirely.

For those paying attention, the corridors off the Islaulit can be identified behind her before the transmission ends.]

Action

[When she wakes up, a young Natasha finds herself in what appears to be a small dance studio. Unfamiliar, but not too shocking. The mirror, the barre, the wood flooring, are all things she's accustomed to. It isn't where she expects to be, but it is somewhere she would expect to wake up in a general sense, in a general way.

Waking up somewhere strange isn't completely shocking either.

It's not until she ventures out into the rest of the Iskaulit that she starts feeling out of her depth. She can't place where she is, even where she might be. There's no outside. The structures are nothing like she's scene before. The computers are completely alien to her. The people are worse. She avoids them, of course. At least at first. Sneaking through shadows and hidden corners, in ducts if she's lucky enough to find access. She observes what she can, trying to work together the situation as she can, applying what training she can. But how much she can do is limited.

Tiny spy is out of her depth.

Which is what forces her to come out of hiding. (Maybe that was the point?)

When she finally lets herself be approached, she's already determined to put on a lost, scared face. It's for the best. That way people will underestimate her. Trust her more. It's a good plan.

The expression might not be entirely fake, though, and she can't entirely hide her suspicious skittishness. The end effect isn't entirely unlike a stray cat begging for food.]

((OOC: Augment glitch? Come play with smol murder ballerina.))

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[That is true. That is very, very true.

Natasha is definitely taking a moment to process it.]

But it's okay! I'm good. I don't want to hurt anyone.

[Yes, Kara, you do seem like a goody two shoes.]

[ gosh this girl has such an intense gaze. kara kind of fidgets under it. she's still not totally sure how to bridge the divide but she does somewhat suspect that the girl understands her more than she understands the girl ]

[Funny how those impressions work, isn't it? But the longer Natasha looks at Kara, the more she might find herself feeling that way.]

Why aren't you on Krypton now?

Krypton?

It's gone.

[ she pantomimes a small explosion with her hands ]

[Natasha frowns briefly, but she's quick to tell herself that the world is a hard place—the universe is.]

The whole thing?

[She holds her hands in a close ball, before mimicking Kara's explosion.]

The whole planet was destroyed. My cousin and I were saved.

My sympathy.

But I have a really good life on Earth. It's hard to say I'd want things to change, but I wouldn't give up my family now, either.

[Not much Natasha can say to that. She's shown all of the sympathy that she knows how to.

Lots of people lose their family, Kara. Gosh.]

Anyway, that's not really here or there, and you probably didn't get much of that. But that's okay. I can't imagine what it's like for you in this situation right now. This is a very confusing situation even when you can understand everyone else.

[Natasha shakes her head, giving Kara a speculative look.

She's learned a great deal.

She'll have to consider what she wants to do with all of this. For now, she stands.]

I should go.

Oh, you want to go somewhere else?

[ like kara is going to leave you alone... ]

[Is this where pretending not to understand you backfires?

It might be.

Natasha raises her hands and waves, gesturing for Kara to stay.]

Oh, it's okay. I'll come with.

[ Kara gets up ]

[Natasha waves her hand again, pointed. Stay.]

Where are you planning to go? I can show you how to get there.

[Natasha's brows bunch up and she holds up one hand now, a pretty clear stop signal, before she starts to walk away.]

[ kara stands there for a moment... she can't decide whether to go with or stay, but eventually decides to follow behind some distance ]

[Natasha looks back, glaring pointedly as Kara trails her.]

[ she waves and smiles ]

Go bad. You shouldn't follow me.

I am definitely starting Russian when I go back to my room.

That will be very useful in the future, but for now...

[Shoo. Shoo!]