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Musoka gets yoinked into the Survivorverse
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She's pretty sure that Musoka won't mind, but it's better for rebuilding trust between them if she checks, and it looks like Musoka's at another loading screen...

<Hey, real quick; are you comfortable with sharing video data from earlier with the authorities? Minerva and I think it's a good idea.>

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<...yeah, that's fine.>

She bites her lip. <Do they need to talk to me about what happened?>

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<At some point, but not tonight. I can help you remember any relevant details.>

Alright, sending you that data now.

And now... Musoka really should get to bed.

<Hey, I know it's been a really hard day and I'm glad you're enjoying that game so much, but if you stay up all night playing you'll wreck your sleep schedule.>

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...but video game...

(Ceru is right, of course. But she doesn't want that to be true, and so she instead sighs and doesn't respond right away.)

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Awww, poor Musoka...

<...so, I was planning on looking for a guild you could join after you went to bed. I'll have a list of recommendations for you to wake up to, okay?>

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<Awww... Okay, okay, I'll stop for the night. And... thanks.> 

She saves the game and quits, shutting off the power armor.

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...she remembers what happened the last time she got out of her power armor, and freezes up for a bit. But she's too tired to really panic about it, so instead she takes a deep breath, pushes the fear out of her mind, and floats herself out the armor and into the compound.

She washes up, mostly in a daze, and then passes out.

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This evening, Mirror is standing on a high rooftop, listening to police radio and, you know, standing by the edge of a roof looking out across a city, which is a stereotypically superhero-ish thing to do and which Mirror therefore enjoys doing.

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A red-eyed shadow appears behind her.

(There is a hatch leading down to the roof. It is still closed.)

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There's a pause for a while, and then, "Yo."

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"Mirror." His voice is deep and rich and his accent is RP and he has in fact never left the borders of the United States.

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"So, what's the mystery thing this time? Another book of dark rituals, cryptic warnings, another chance for me to try and figure out your superpower..."

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(The Gentleman is really quite unhappy, but he's good enough at controlling his voice that this is not obviously apparent.) "Well, darling, this time I was hoping you could help me."

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"The omniscient foiled! I really wish I'd taken a picture of your face the last time this happened." She turns, smiling. "What is it?"

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(The Gentleman's face is not visible and has never been visible. Not only does he have a bandit mask that covers everything below his red-lensed goggles, but he wears, separately, another complete full-face skintight mask under the obvious mask, just so nobody can ever learn his secret identity.)

"What, in God's name, is Blue Lantern?"

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"New trigger?"

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Mirror is actually really bad at lying for someone who wears a mask all the time. "My dear, I am more omniscient than that."

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"Fine, fine, I hauled her out of the smoking ruins of a burning lab. She's cool, what's your problem with her?"

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His problem with her is that he thought the butterfly effect was smaller than that. "Miracles rarely come cheap."

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"We're superheroes, G. Miracles are our day job."

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"And someone," he tossed out at random, "still pays the price." He raised an invisible eyebrow. "You can answer one question for me, at least."

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"So important not to confused can and will."

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"Ask your question and I'll tell you then."

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"The source of her powers, darling." A demon's smile. "I need the name of the man who made it. Or do trust me, everyone on the continent will wish their only problem was Voidwrath."

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