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[abetterway]

[Xavier is sitting on a cot in the Flop, hands clasped in her lap as she smiles into the camera. It's a weary smile, but a friendly one. Her hair is tied back in a low, messy knot.]

Hello. My name is Jocelyn Xavier, and I have a request of everyone.

I'd like to know some details about your home, your history. Nothing intimate, of course – just basic facts that might help us discern some sort of pattern in our abduction. Your statistics, essentially – and your skills, if you don't mind sharing.

I'll start us off.

I come from Earth. America, originally, but I've been traveling for several years. The current year is – was – 1956. I recently turned thirty years old. [Her expression tightens, just slightly, as her voice quiets.] Both of my parents are deceased. My step-brother and his father, as well.

[Her next words come quickly, as she forces old emotions away.] I spent eight years at Oxford University, in England. I have PhDs in genetics, biophysics, psychology, psychiatry, and anthropology.

[She hesitates, then, brow furrowing she glances downward; she seems to steel herself as she looks back into the camera.]

I was a soldier for three years. [It would be dangerous to admit, at home, and might raise suspicions here. But she's asking for honesty, and she's holding enough back already.]

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[lehnsherr]

I didn't meet Charles until 1962.

[What are pleasantries?]

[Private]

[truth_is_cold]

Anything specific you would like to know?

[atwar]

I am Sif, sworn shield-maiden of Asgard, known to mortals of Midgard - your Earth - as myth. What would you know?

[seesobserves]

There isn't one.

[boygodofneuro]

Topher Brink, I also come from Earth. The hell hole better known as Los Angeles, California. It was 2009, I turned twenty seven last January, I've got no siblings and my parents, well. I don't really talk to them so I don't know if they're still alive and kickin'.

[He sighs. This is clearly boring him but the fact Xavier is a pretty woman with as many degrees as him holds his interest enough for now.]

Was sent off to University when I was but a wee lad, got PhDs in a crapload of stuff but it all pretty much means I know more about the human brain than just about anyone else on Earth right now unless Halverson's magically come back from the dead while I've been gallivanting around Jurassic park planet.

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[flowing_kinetics]

[Oh hey, it's that lady from before. What is it that she wants to know...?]

Uh... Alright.

Akira Tadokoro. [She already knows this, he knows, but might as well mimic what she's doing. He's got no real idea how the hell to do it otherwise.]

Earth, Japan. Back home, it was 2011. Don't remember the month or day. [Time travel kinda mucks around with your head, and Akira doesn't keep track of dates that much anyway.] I'm 17. Don't have parents. Have a sister, Kaori. Had a friend, Matsu.

[Schooling, what is that] Got taught by Taeko at the orphanage, got psychic powers. Can make fire, ice, all kinds of stuff like that.

[Um...]

Was that it?