Mutant Edie and Emily in Wormverse
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"Oh! Bunches, yeah, you can find about all of that and the history and stuff on the Wikipedia." The elevator stops. "Rooms are here, lemme show you yours and then how to use a computer."

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"Awesome."

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Their room is number 121. It has two beds and a large desk and two computers and an ensuite bathroom. Magnet Master whistles when he walks in. "My room doesn't have a bathroom," he says, a tad enviously.

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"Well, are you sharing?"

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"Room, no; bathroom, yes, with everyone else."

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"I did mean room."

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"To be fair I don't live here, my room is only to crash after a mission or whatever, so I guess it makes sense that you'd have something nicer." He shrugs. "Okay, computers one-oh-one." He walks up to one of the computers and presses the button to boot it up. It takes ten seconds.

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"Man, computers change so much."

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"Right? Okay so you use the mouse—this bit here—to control this cursor, and the keyboard to type, this is the internet icon—there's the Wikipedia, it's that huge encyclopedia I talked about—you can look for things here, like," and he types 'women's rights' and opens the appropriate page. "There's also Google which is a pretty general-purpose search tool that, uh, looks for things on the internet." Google!

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Ooh, Google. 

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"It's pretty fantastic, isn't it?"

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"Yes. Yes it is."

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"So, d'you wanna be shown around or use the wonderful internet?"

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"Mm...internet can wait."

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"Okay! ...do you wanna have, like, secret identities?"

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"Is there much point, with our family in another universe and perfectly capable of taking care of themselves besides?"

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"Well, if you ever hang out with one of us when out of costume people might put two and two together," he suggests.

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"I guess." Sigh. "This isn't a problem we had back home."

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"No secret identities there?"

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"Not really. Codenames, sometimes, but--those weren't really secret."

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Nod. "I guess I could just go out without my costume," he says dubiously. "It's not like I'm too attached to my identity staying secret from you two anyway."

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"--Oh, people keep that secret even from other heroes here?"

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"No—I mean, some, Wards don't know the identities of the adult heroes, and sometimes some people prefer to keep it a secret even here, but—you two are not in the team. Yet, anyway." Shrug. "But that's why I'm not too attached."

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"Oh, I see. Sorry."

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"Whatever." His suit starts making noises and moving and slowly opening up to reveal a fifteen-year-old boy with violently orange hair and freckles. The suit collects itself into a metal suitcase. "I'm Jake. Nice to meet you."

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