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[vagabond_code]

Who: Clint Barton and some of you.
When: Now.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Aboard the First Breath, if you want to come see him.

I haven't been in a coma here yet. If that's what you'd call it. I haven't disappeared for a while like some of you have. I get that when that happens you can come back later along in your life than when you left, or changed compared to how you were before. Can I talk to some of the people that's happened to? I'm not asking to understand what happens because I can tell it's one of the biggest mysteries The Real Housewives of Space has going for it. But it might be enough if I could understand it a little better.

[It'd be a start, anyway.]

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[mucked]

What are you hoping to learn, Mister Barton?

[ it's happened to peggy -- and perhaps that's obvious enough since she's answered the query in the first place. but she doesn't volunteer that information upfront. ]

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[vagabond_code]

Not just one what, actually. I wish - that would be so much easier. I have a lot of questions. My questions have questions. But...

it probably wouldn't be useful to just go ahead and ask things like that. Better to ask about what people have experienced. Most of these things - I won't be the first person to ask. And a lot of the answers will just be 'I don't know' or 'no' if I do it that way. Like this:

17) The people this happens to - are they actually going back to their worlds? Or are they just remembering things they already knew, but forgot? Is there any way to know?

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[mucked]

Those who regain their memories while they sleep don't ever physically leave their ships. And so I might be tempted to believe we never actually go home. Except it's not just memories. Injuries sustained back home present themselves, too.

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[vagabond_code]

That's useful information. But the Atroma, we've seen them make people younger and turn them right back again. As far as physical changes go, copying a few scars has nothing on that.

[He isn't playing devil's advocate here. He's trying to sift through the possibilities.]

Could they be giving us the scars?

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[mucked]

It's possible. The glitches you're alluding to, however, rarely last more than a week or two. The scars stay.

[ she knows because she's gained a few. ]