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[bat_daughter]

[The face on the screen is of a pretty, dark-haired woman in her mid-twenties. But there's something serious to her eyes, a way she seems to be taking in every detail and filing it away for future use.]

I'm not going to ask any of the "who, what, where" kind of questions. Given the briefing and the fact that this place has apparently been doing this for a while, it'd probably be kind of pointless.

But I'm Helena. Helena Wayne.

And I've got to say... the super-powers thing is the most unexpected part of all of this. Never had much need of them before, though I can't say I wasn't jealous of Karen sometimes.. Still... definitely unexpected. Anybody else dealing with first time powers?

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[eloquentness]

[ . . . ]

Yeahhh, I wasn't even born then. Or close to being born.

[bat_daughter]

Okay, now you're just making me feel old, Iris.

[eloquentness]

Sorry. [ a sympathetic wince, ] It's just - when I think of people coming here from different times, it's always been like, the Victorian era or the 1800's but never a few decades before me.

To put it in perspective, I'm from 2016.

[bat_daughter]

2016? Sheesh. Glad to see I'm not the only person out of time, though.

[eloquentness]

Oh, definitely not. At least you know about refrigerators and you know, indoor plumbing.

[bat_daughter]

[That gets a smile out of her.]

That's a very good point.