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[fiamme]

[It takes Kori a moment to count backwards from ten and then to turn her device on. She selects video - it'll be easier, after all, if her face is recognizable. She barely glances at it before she turns away to speak in hushed tones to her own communicator from home.]

- Arsenal? Please come in, Arsenal - Roy? Jason?

[When there's no answer, there is a subtle slump to her shoulders. After a long moment, she turns her attention towards her device. ] ... Communications are down to my home. Obviously. I feel it unwise to request council with those responsible for my displacement. I will ask anyway: who has brought me here?

[A pause. ] I am Koriand'r, second Princess of the planet Tamaran. I do not take lightly to kidnapping.

I'm looking for a human - he has red hair, green eyes and wears an ugly sort of hat. And - another, also. Black hair, blue eyes. They will answer to Arsenal and Red Hood. [Another pause; she glances, almost anxiously off to the side. ]

... Oh, X'hal. Why now of all times?

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[asofwar]

[It happens every day, really. Or almost every day, Sif doesn't pay attention to the network - it's not a hobby, as it might be for others - but one always notices a woman with hair as red as blood and skin the colour of fire. Especially when she speaks of planets she is unfamiliar with. Yggdrasil spreads further than we thought.]

I fear that your status will not influence your success in being returned to your world, second Princess of the planet Tamaran.

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[fiamme]

It was not to influence. It was to warn.

[There are planets where Koriand'r simply has to say her name and the streets will fill up with rumors of infamy. There's an annoyed downturns of her mouth, but it's not aimed towards Sif. ]

What is this place?

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[asofwar]

Your words should be spared. If you wish for the exit, find it.

[Poor girl's not famous here. Boo freaking hoo. Try being a goddess of war in a generally peaceful place. With skeletons as your biggest foes this month.]

Although be forewarned that it is no simple task. Many others try, constantly. You are in the City.

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[fiamme]

[A pause. The City. ]

It has no name? [Even if it did, she'd forget after five seconds. ]

No matter. Are you also held captive?

[lefthandedgenius]

[So there's a bit of staring at the way Kory is able to rock the skimpy purple and the orange skin and the red hair and glowy green eyes because wow, but then Lydia actually tries to be helpful.]

Hello? This place is called The City. Basically it exists as some kind of fixed point outside the space time continuum and people from multiple universes are pulled in and out of those who control it.

I haven't seen either of the people you're describing, but there's a welcome center if no one who's familiar to you gets in touch with you.

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[fiamme]

This place exists outside of the Multiverse?

[fiamme]

Irritating. Where is this 'welcome center'?

[lefthandedgenius]

All evidence seems to suggest so. My understanding is that you are not only pulled out of your universe, but you're pulled out of a fixed point, so when and if you return, it's to the exact moment you left. Some people even return to their home universe, progress further in their personal timeline, and are pulled back again.

[Lydia provides the welcome center coordinates.]

I've never heard of your planet before, but there are other aliens here...well, I guess seeing as this isn't Earth, we're all technically aliens.

[fiamme]

A land of immigrants. It doesn't seem so different from home, then.

[A pause, while she quickly scans over the co-ordinates. There is a very subtle relieved relaxing of her shoulders; she doesn't trust the information immediately, but even the possibility that time will not move forwards without her is a huge relief.

She can still save Jason. Good.]

Thank you, for directing me. Are you human?

[It's better to ask, especially after Sif. ]

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[hischair]

Captain James Kirk of the starship Enterprise. [ Hello. YOU ALL SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH, HE HAS HIS PRIORITIES TOTALLY STRAIGHT. ] I regret to have to say that the City itself dragged you in here, Princess. It's temporally and spatially displaced outside of our usual universes, as far as we can tell.

You didn't fall into a public fountain, did you?

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[fiamme]

Lydia has said as much. I had thought the multiverse was only a theory. [a theory by human scientists who she literally doesn't care about.

ah yes, those are nice eyes though. pretty.]

Hello, Captain James Kirk of the starship Enterprise. [a beat. ] I fell for approximately sixteen seconds before I caught myself.

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[hischair]

It's almost as if each iteration of every possible multiverse is being tapped for people to come here. There are men who look almost exactly the same but who are from different dimensions, for example.

[ Funny, he was just thinking the same thing about those bright green sclera. Pretty. ]

Just Jim's fine. [ He smiles in surprise. ] You've either got a fantastic sense of balance or you can fly.

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[fiamme]

Both.

[Of course it's both. ] They look the same, but they are not the same people? Different names, different lives?

[That seems unsettling. She taps a chin, thoughtfully.] I see. That seems as though it could be troublesome.

[She tries not to betray frustration: she already has trouble telling Jason and Roy apart sometimes. What will she do if they twins???? DILEMMA.

A beat.]

Just Kori is fine too, Just Jim.

[medicos]

[ he address the most important part of this post: ]

Arsenal and Red Hood? What the hell kinda name are those?

[fiamme]

Codenames.

[scret identities, McCoy!!!]

wow i should not be tagging in the dark sorry for the grammar mistakesss

[medicos]

Who would've thought?

[ they could be better gosh !! does no one have taste in superhero names now. ]

Well, I haven't heard of those names anywhere. Your friends might not be here at all.

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[logistical]

Greetings, Princess. I regret to inform you that your associates may not be present here.

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[fiamme]

I have already been made aware.

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[logistical]

What other information do you require? I will do my best to provide it.

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[fastest_dude_ever]

[Blink, blink.]

Red Arrow? Formerly Speedy?

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[fiamme]

[Why does Speedy sound so familiar? Mysteries. ]

Red ... Arrow?

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[fastest_dude_ever]

[People don't know him as Speedy anymore? Boy, does he feel old.]

Eh, yeah, Green Arrow's old sidekick.

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[directives]

[ tamaran? never heard of it, though the princess's coloring reminds kathryn of ruddy orions and edosians. ]

I'm Captain Janeway of the starship Voyager. I'm afraid you've been pulled into a temporal anomaly best identified as a quantum fissure. Who's responsible for the fissure's existence is another matter entirely, one that takes a backseat to our current situation. [ it's a bad month to be pulled into the city. ] As for your comrades, I'm afraid I have yet to come across anyone who matches either of those descriptions.

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[fiamme]

They are not here. If they were - contact would have been made.

[A beat. ]

There are many space travelers here, it seems. Hello, Captain Janeway. I'm afraid I do not know know your vessel.

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[directives]

Seems to be something of a common theme. [ if there were a shred of truth in the anonymous movement's claims, then the presence of so many starfleet officers and other "space travelers" made sense. of course, she wasn't about to take their word for it or buy into that assertion. ] I'm not surprised. There are an infinite number of worlds and dimensions represented in this place.