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[ For the sake of the video feed Ellie is trying very hard to not let her nervousness show. She brushes the wisps of her brown hair that had fallen into her face away from her eyes, revealing two different colored eyes: one blue and one green. Before she starts speaking she does a quick look around and then turns back to face the camera directly. She has an almost British sounding accent when she speaks.]

Everyone here seems so friendly and ready to help. They’ve given us jobs, a place to live, and even powers. [That’s one of the most suspicious thing to her in all of this, right there with the tattoo.] Me with powers. [She makes a small scoffing sound.] Would’ve been useful back home. [She sighs]

Look, I…I really haven’t had much luck with people who tell me they want to help out. [In fact, she’s had the opposite of luck. Save for two people almost everyone that’s said they were trying to help her has betrayed her in some way.] I can’t help but think that this is all a little too generous. [There has to be a catch somewhere. There's no way that the rug isn't going to be pulled out from under them soon.]

Has anyone found any cracks in all of this yet? [She pauses for a few seconds.] I feel like I should also mention that I’ve been housed in residence 08. I was dropped off there not too long ago, but I wanted to look around before going inside. I haven't seen the Earth like this in a long time.

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Tell me about it. The whole powers being useful back home bit.

[She makes a thoughtful noise before continuing.]

There's a couple sayings that probably apply here. Something about the Devil in a Sunday hat but also the whole looking a gift horse in the mouth. I dunno...it's only been about a month since we got here. The bad guys, whoever they are, are biding their time.

[That was definitely Ellie, and a few finger swipes later he has the video enabled on his end, too. He's changed and cleaned up from his arrival, but he still needs a shave.]

Ellie? Is that you? They brought you here too?

It makes the power thing bittersweet. [She sighs.]

Sounds like both of those probably fit the entire situation really well. If it weren't for how suspicious it seemed, I might even be happy to be here. [It's a lot nicer than where she was previously after all.] Bad guys always bide their time until they're ready. Most of the time they seem like friendly faces while they're doing it too.

Preaching to the choir, sister. On all of that.

That's a shame. I didn't introduce myself. [She chuckles, a bit nervously.] I'm Ellie.

[Well. She just ...stares for a second. Last thing she knew he was dead. This is a lot to take in.]

Isaac...you're ...[alive. okay. There are a lot of fill in the blank words here] here.

Kenzi. So I guess welcome to Heropa. [She almost gags saying that.] Seriously terrible name.

Uh...yeah. Here I am. [If she looks close enough to the feed, she'll notice one of his eyes is swollen, and his face is bruised, but otherwise, he doesn't look any worse for wear.] And here you are...at number 8, I guess. [And he smiles.] You made it.

[well hello, fellow housemate.]

You'll find them soon enough.

they took us and will not let go. that is enough.

how many others were given powers?

Nice to meet you, Kenzi. [She chuckles.] I wasn't going to comment on the name, but it really is awful.

[She swallows.] So did you.

[Hello, roomie.] Have you then?

[Text is somewhat suspicious to Ellie, so she's going to switch it back to video. Sorry] I wish I could answer that, I'm pretty curious myself. Like I said though, I just got here. I'm as clueless as the next person. It's a good question though.

I'm not very comfortable talking to someone here through text right now. I hope you won't mind.

Yeah, so far. [He realizes the joke isn't funny.] Where are you, Ellie? I'd really like to see you. [Because I thought I'd never see you again.]

[100% fine, I love it. Laura's suspicious too.

There's a pause as she switches to voice. When she speaks, it's flat]

You said: "They've given us jobs, a place to live, and even powers." [She's mimicked Ellie's inflections perfectly.]

"Us" is plural. What else do you know?

[Where does she even begin? Cracks. Kate sees cracks all over, but she doesn't know how biased she is about it.]

One, a lack of choice. We didn't ask to be brought here. [Which happens sometimes, but then:] And I'm not a fan of enforced tattoos, regulating superheroes, and everything in-between. Too big brother. Too much of the next step of something I fought against back home. [Because there's no point in making it a secret.]

Where we was before was just 'the City', which isn't near as bad but still bad.

What does the Earth look like, in your memory?

To be honest I said us hoping that others would step forward with confirmation. The debriefing made it rather clear that this was all standard procedure. If it wasn't they wouldn't be so fully prepared.

They think if they're nice you'll decide to sign your name on the dotted line.

[She almost makes a comment about maybe giving them creativity points, but she's too focused on the fact that she just said they were somewhere before this.] You were in a place before this?

Where are you? [Because she's not going to just tell him her location and wait for him to come. That's dumb.] I can start heading the way and we can meet halfway.

It's really not that hard. And I've been here for - half a year? [a pause.] Well - I've been away from home for that long.

Whole 'nother world that was eaten by an angry and possibly insane, uh, god. [How else does one explain Atropos?]

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