What now?

Seems to be five identical girls in their late teens, though they're dressed differently from each other.

" - I know you guys."

"We'd hope so," says the leader. "We taught you psychic defense, after all." They glances as one at Eliana and Mora. "But we haven't seen your new friends before."

Creepy.

"You wouldn't have. We're recent arrivals."

"To this universe? That's promising. We think we escaped detection by whatever caused this, but our ability to investigate has been limited."

"What have you discovered so far?"

"We've confirmed the simulation has only been running for a few days, and that people who were widely known to have powers that could've more easily broken this are reported as dead. The power running this is not omniscient, and the mental alteration is not ongoing - once someone is made aware of the changed world, they won't be brainwashed again. We believe we can break people out but haven't tried this yet - we were trying to figure out how to get close to Loki unobtrusively as a trial. She seemed likely to side with us."

"That's marginally good news."

She nods. "Someone calling herself Ikol - I think the old Loki - claimed Cecilia Maximoff was behind this."

"That doesn't seem impossible. She didn't seem to have this level of power, but, well, we likely weren't the only ones hiding how powerful we are. But the old Loki does not have a reputation for trustworthiness."

"Do you have any better leads?"

They shake their heads. "No."

"Then we will move forward with investigating this one."

"That does seem wisest for now."

"Mm." She turns to Loki. "Do you think this is what you came for?"

"I think so - not them, exactly, but... This place features in a lot of my memories."

"Good or bad?"

"Good, mostly. I think school had any assholes, but..." She shakes her head. "People basically just behaved like the old Loki was my mom, and I wasn't the only one with a villain for a parent, and there were... Things I had in common with people, and the way people were assholes was mostly - the way teenagers anywhere are assholes."

Eliana nods knowingly. "Teenagers, yes. I am familiar."

She smiles a bit. "I'd still like to contact Nausicaa and Sue next - " Then, to the new girls: "The Maximoff kids. Do you guys know any reason not to?"

"We're not sure they actually existed in the main world - we haven't heard of them."

" - But they feel real. Like Thor does."

"That would be an interesting wrinkle. How surprising is you not having heard of them?"

"The Scarlet Witch was a celebrity hero. Cecilia Maximoff was less well known - it wasn't impossible to find out her identity under the mask, since her father's identity was public, as was the Scarlet Witch's connection to Magneto - but most people avoided drawing attention to Cecilia the private citizen. However, she taught at my school under the Maximoff name, and if she had children - I would've expected them to be students, for one, or at least the subject of gossip."