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Nikki pulled herself up another flight of stairs, desperately trying to catch her breath while she still had clean air. She could hear the sounds of crazed arguing below, by the couple who had been caught in the rising miasma. She thought that once she got inside she'd be safe, but the white smoke had leaked in, flowing under the door and through tiniest of cracks in the windows.

She didn't know what it did but, with the nine in town, it couldn't be good. She wasn't finished catching her breath but already she could see the miasma rising through the stairwell towards her. One more story - she'd be on the roof. That had to be high enough. Someone would save her - Legend, Glory Girl, anyone. 

With a last burst of energy she staggered through the maintenance door out onto the roof. 

She could see the entire city - see the miasma creeping up the sides of the buildings. In seconds it was coming over the edges of the roof she was on, out the door she came through, barreling towards her... 

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She's in an only mildly unfamiliar part of downtown as it turns out. It is about an hour walk to her house.

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Nope, not her house, she's not going to show up at her house right now like this, she wants to go to the PRT.

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The PRT office she is closest to is collapsed in on itself, abandoned. A laminated sign outside directs her to a temporary office a few blocks away. 

The temporary office is in a slightly less wrecked building, wooden paneling replacing the windows that were broken by Shatterbird's scream. 

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That will do her. She will go in and see where she falls in the triage.

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It'll take a bit, PRT staff and volunteers are largely busy taking down descriptions of people who went missing during the miasma.

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Yeah, she's less urgent than all of that and is, relatively speaking, content to sit here.

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The missing persons cases wind down and eventually the only person in-line ahead of Lorica is a woman trying to explain that all the medical aid in her neighborhood has been stolen by Skitter who keeps it at this address and can't the PRT go and get it back and give it to people like they are supposed to. The woman is informed that unless Skitter is keeping all the medical supplies for herself this is not actually a thing they are going to bother with. She can go to this clinic here if going to Skitter isn't okay but the wait lines are long and they'd really prefer she just get her medical supplies from the source nearest her home, whether or not that source is a supervillain. The woman leaves for the official clinic after a brief argument.

"Next?"

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"Um, hello. My situation is very weird and I'm not sure where to start."

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"Are you or others in imminent danger?"

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"No, that's why I waited."

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"If you can give me an overview I'll direct you to the relevant resource."

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"The identification in my pocket belongs to someone I have never heard of and I am concerned I may have Butchered into her body, more or less. I believe I would have died in the Leviathan attack."

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Well, that's not exactly in the handbook.

"If you can provide proof of identity we can contact your next of kin?"

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"I could have gone to my house, but it seems like there's an ongoing crisis. Oh, uh, also, I have new powers."

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Oh, powers. This is definitely above this staff member's pay grade.

"I can contact someone more senior than me to talk you through registration. Or uh, re-registration. Do you want a temporary mask in the meantime?"

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Here is a very cheap domino mask!

And after a bit, here is a Miss Militia approaching.

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"Hi, Miss Militia."

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"Hi, I'm told you're claiming to be a cape who died in the Leviathan attack?"

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"Yeah. Lorica. - I'm just assuming I died then, I don't specifically remember dying, I just woke up about an hour ago in this body."

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"Do you have a way to verify this?"

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"I could identify my previous face out of a picture array, I remember passwords to my software that should convince my bot if it hasn't been dismantled or anything, I will be able to refer to shared history with people? I think my memories of being Lorica are of normal quality for my subjective timeline, I don't actually know how long it's been."

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"About a month has passed - could you verify your identity with your bot remotely?"

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"If you can get me on a call with it, probably, yeah."

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Miss Militia has an unshattered phone Lorica can use.

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