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[After the last few days, there is a single temptation in Kate's mind: to put this off. To let it rest. She's earned it. Then again, she'd end up guilting herself and worrying about it too much, so it's worth getting it out of the way. Besides, all of it is important, and she wants to help.

So, it's back to the daily grind.]

Hey, everyone, a few things of note! First, I've updated the FAQ to reflect a few questions from you guys, as well as the recent bills that passed (or failed to pass). Hopefully, this clears up some things, and as always, feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

On to the cleverly numbered points!

1. Shepard and I spent the last couple of months looking for information on some of the people from Annie's list. I call it Annie's list only in short hand.

I've compiled that information in this document here. Hopefully, that will add some light to things. Whether these people are Hornets or not is yet to be made clear, but I do want to draw everyone's attention to Eleni Wang and the fact that she might be in Greece. If you're up for going to Greece to ask her some questions, I think you should do it.

2. Unrelated to this, my team is looking for some new members! We call ourselves the Young Avengers, and we're a branch of a much larger team of heroes from back home. While this won't give you officially sanctioned Avengers-status due to the circumstances of being here, we are looking for a few extra hands.

The only conditions we have are that you're at least seventeen (though we can be a little flexible on this point), and that you're willing to work with us as a team to do some good. We all play to our strengths, and we'd love to work with some of the heroes here moving forward. As a team, we're a little less "you must do this" and "you must go here. Also, we're very fun, and you can annoy Loki a lot.

If you're interested, you can either drop me a line here or contact me privately with your credentials.

Oh, and I figure it's implicit in our name, but we're generally looking for younger heroes.

Thanks!

3. My twenty-second birthday is this Saturday, and I've gotten one of my favorite diners to agree to let me throw my party there. It's intended to be a less rambunctious gathering, especially with Christmas right around the corner. If you know me, you're probably invited. Please use your judgment wisely! Also, gifts are not required. Sorry for the short notice.

The location is [insert Maurtia Falls location that's near Loki's apartment.]

That's all!

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Not knowing what gamma radiation is doesn't make the information less reliable. It's not like understanding gamma radiation was all THAT important to what it was all about.

And better that it got published. It means people have been able to work on it.

You're awfully defensive of this anonymous person, Kitty.

I just think it was important information. I think it's stuff we needed to know, and I think Ms Lounds was right when she told us about it.

Kitty, it's not that we didn't need to know it, it's that the information might block us from actually knowing anything more.

Hence: big picture.

[ There's a little burst of frustration. And you know what happens when Kitty gets frustrated: Honesty. ]

Look, I was the one who found out the information in the first place. Ms Lounds was the only person I knew of who wouldn't be scared to get it out there. And she did that, and I'm really grateful to her.

Wait, I had you guessed on accident??

Huh.

Edited 2014-12-28 05:38 (UTC)

For future reference, Freddie acts only in her interests. But you were new, so I guess you know now, at least.

[ Wait - ]

Hold on. What do you mean, you guessed?

It was right around when we figured out that you weren't who you said you were. Freddie contacted me at the same time, and she had a tip from someone anonymous. I thought it was weird, and like I told you before, the "talk to people anonymously" thing isn't really a tried and true method of communicating here.

But I wrote it off before long.

It's funny. "Grammar" radiation should've tipped me back toward you.

Why should it have?

It takes a certain level of nerve to get that information, and that person also didn't care that they might not even understand what the scientists had to say.

[ A sigh. ]

It wasn't that I didn't care that I didn't understand. Someone dropped a glass while they were talking. Besides, grammar and gamma sound ESSENTIALLY the same. It's just that first r that's different.

I should have looked into it more before I gave the information. I probably sounded like a complete imbecile.

You don't really need to defend yourself.

And you should have looked into it more, but not because you sounded like an imbecile.

Yes, I know, for fact-checking. These two were totally legitimate, though - they really work with the Porter, and they had NO clue I was there. The information was real, I just hadn't the faintest idea what to do with it. So I needed to get it out to people who knew more than I did.

So you picked the tabloid reporter who thought that revealing people's dirty secrets was a "fair" move? When that information would likely be twisted beyond believe?

(And she did twist it, considering.)

She gets attention. When she makes a post, people flock to it. To approve, to disapprove - they pay attention.

And you think that's a good thing?

It's not. It's really not.

And honestly, given what I know about your world, isn't that kind of sensationalism something you should be rallying against? It could get people hurt.

In my world, "journalists" are coddled lapdogs who are slipped scraps by their masters. They haven't even got the courage to print how many people are dying in America - we've got to guess half the time. All they'll write about is Devereaux's latest tie pin, or interviews with commoners who "disapprove" of the ingratitude of their fellows.

Ms Lounds is courageous. And, yeah, she gets attention, which IS a good thing when I'm trying to get the word out about something we might be able to fix. That's enough for me.

There is a difference between free speech and publishing whatever you want as news. It might seem "brave" that she's putting stuff out there, but it isn't. She got targeted last month with those files because the person who gave them to her knew they could. It was as simple as that. They knew it would go somewhere.

And you can't suggest that someone does something about something when it might be a dead end entirely. And you can't think that me looking into it is a good thing, when it could just be baseless hypotheses.

Honestly, I'm more worried that you looked into getting more information and ran on ahead after I gave you that dump of information. Weren't you the least bit suspicious about their theorizing?

No. They believed what they were saying. And they had no idea anyone was listening. I think everything I heard was the truth, as best they knew it.

What Billy and Hange Zoe learned were both things they believed, but easy to doubt. Honestly, I'm still stuck on the part where you think Freddie Lounds is the courageous person to look up to in order to get information out there.

I like you because you're smart and brave; I like her for the exact same reasons. They're good qualities, and ones that you don't see so very often. And I know she's done some perfectly rotten things, but I don't know anyone who hasn't, really.

You're giving her traits that aren't actually hers. She's not worthy of admiration, Kitty, and it's actually really worrying that you think she is. That's all.

[Kate is not budging on this one.]

Maybe. I guess if I'm wrong, I'll regret it eventually, won't I?

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