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[signifies]

Who: Clark Kent and you.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Aboard the Marsiva.
When: The week of his arrival.

I don't suppose I could click my heels three times. . . [ Only Clark gets his little joke. ]

I'll keep this brief. My name is Clark - I'm from Kansas.

[ He's been the new guy at work often enough to sound chill about this, but he is feeling a little shaky having woken up here in the middle of his workday. To top it off, not being able to hear his mother's heartbeat is jarring.

There's some stress baking in Clark's future. ]

What do you make of this place? I'm curious to know how it compares to where you come from.

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I'm starting to think there's not much to be done.

[ He's not used to feeling so powerless.

And ordinarily he wouldn't think anything of it. Plenty of people are from Georgia. This collection of ships is much smaller.

Hmm. ]

Still, it's nice to meet you, Maggie. How long have you been here?

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Mm.

[She gets that helpless feeling. At least her being just a mere human made it that much simpler. She picked her battles a lot easier that way. The same couldn't always be said for the more magical types she's met - or whatever other designations people went by.]

A few months, but before that nearly a year.

[A beat]

They say sometimes you can just disappear, go back home for a while. I'm not sure because I woke up on the Marsiva like last time.