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[Anita is sitting on her bedroom windowsill. She doesn't look like she's in a good mood.]

Some help the "government" was with the kidnapping business. [Anita raises one foot onto the sill and leans against the window frame. Someone tell her that's not exactly safe.] Don't they care that there are sick people out there who turn us into guinea pigs?

[Actually, she's also miffed because she was unable to escape. Usually breaking out is no problem for her. Maybe if her sisters were with her, they could have figured out a better plan together.]

Anyway, I'm looking for a better job than being a stationary designer. My sisters and I ran a detective agency, sorta, back home. And we were bodyguards. Yeah, yeah, you're thinking a kid like me can't be a bodyguard. Well...

[She suddenly jumps off the windowsill and back into her room, whips out a sheet of paper from the holster always on her thigh, and hurls it at her bed's headboard. The sheet stiffens and sails through the air to embed itself into the wood. Several more paper blades follow and find their mark in the wall over the headboard.]

Think again. I can be your bodyguard. But if you want a registered bodyguard, too bad, 'cause I'm not. As if being registered automatically makes you a better person.

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[ He's thinking something along the same lines, really, but before he gets a chance to say anything, she whips the paper out -- and it thuds into the wood like it's made of steel instead. ]

Takes more than being able to fight to make a good bodyguard.

Duh, I gotta keep an eye on who I'm guarding. Already did that back home. [An impatient shrug.]

Attitude's a big part of it, too. I get that you're mad about what happened, but ... [ He trails off. It feels too much like he's trying to talk down to her when she obviously isn't in a mood to hear it, so he tries a different tactic. ]

I might have some work. But it's a one-time thing.

[She is. Anita is mad about a lot of things. Unfortunately, that's why she would work better with her sisters...they can keep her in line.

But she calms down a bit when she hears his offer.]

What kind of work? How much do I get?

[ It shouldn't be an issue, but come to think of it, there are people on the Network he doesn't want catching wind of this before it's actually ironed out, so he switches the message's setting over. ]

Friend of mine's putting together a meeting for imPorts sometime next month, and I'm in charge of security, making sure no one starts any trouble. [ Easier said than done; imPorts attract trouble like lint. ] So I'm looking for people to put on the team. You'd be paid by the hour.

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Count me in. [This lifts her mood somewhat.] What sort of meeting is it, though?

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Do you want to do detective work here?

[ a beat and then-- ]

Was that paper?

Yeah, if the bodyguard thing doesn't work out.

And yeah, that was regular paper. I can do it with any paper.

You should talk to Nick Burkhardt about detective work. He can help.

How?

Is he a detective? For real?

I'm a Paper Master. I've been one for as long as I can remember.

Yes. He works at the police station.

What's a paper master?

A Paper Master is someone who can use paper the way I do. Make weapons out of it, turn it into shields and walls, basically we do just about anything with it.

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The government funded many of the trips out there to find everyone. I'm not one to defend them, but we should criticize them for the right things.

[There's a brief pause.]

As for a couple other points, registered or unsettled means nothing to us. Maybe to the government, but not anyone else. Hopefully. [Except Tony Stark, but she's not saying it.] When it comes to detective work, you can open an agency by yourself if you'd like.

Yeah? Maybe they should've tried harder! [She scowls.]

And, wouldn't there already be one around by now?

I'm the first person to judge the government, but we know this isn't on them.

[She needs to repeat that.]

And you think there needs to be just one?

Well...no. It's just that I've never opened up anything like that by myself.

Good point. I got lucky because I went into business with someone here. It didn't work so well back home.

[Signs on telephone poles don't really make great advertisements.]

Are you planning on registering?

[She shakes her head vehemently.]

Register with the freaks who took me away from my sisters? Never.

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Aaah! How did you do that?

I'm a Paper Master.

That's the coolest thing I've ever seen!

[A chuckle. She rubs the back of her head sheepishly.]

Yeah, I guess it is pretty cool, huh?

How'd you do it?

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Maybe you're missing out on a budding career as an origami teacher.

That sounds more like something my sisters would do.

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