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[ It takes Jane a long while to settle down to this first ... whatever. Video? Journal entry? Something. She has clothes - not her own, but clothes nonetheless - and even a small bag of food, to take with her when she goes to find ... well. Someplace to stay. Stay, not live. This won't be home. It can't be.

She sighs heavily, puffing her cheeks out on a hard breath as she flips through the pages. An hour or two of reading have acquainted her with how the system works, as bizarre as it is. She sounds tired, when she speaks, a sort of bone weary ache. ]

Alright. So the journal is some sort of half-book half-iPad technomagical means of communicating, aaaaand this place gives you wings. [ A beat. ] There's a cheesy Red Bull ad in there somewhere, but I'm not going there.

[ A pause. Stay on track for three seconds, why don't you? ]

Sorry, I-- my name is Jane Foster. I'm a astrophysicist with SHIELD, if that means anything to anyone. Well, more like a researcher, but -- anyway. I just really hope that means something to someone. It'd be nice to at least -- I don't know. Have a familiar face from my own world. Or universe. I'm guessing universe.

[ Another pause, shorter. ] So how many versions of Earth are there, here? I'm going to guess at least a dozen. Maybe several dozen, who knows. And probably plenty of other worlds besides. From who knows how many different universes. And yet here we all are. [ She laughs, incredulous and kind of unhappy. ] This place is somehow the special one. I'd just -- love to know how they do it, really. Someone's going to tell me it's magic, and I just--

[ She finally stops, sighing again. ]

Sorry, sorry. Um -- hi. Nice to ... meet all of you, I guess.

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Suddenly I'm disappointed. Here I thought you'd be someone actually worth associating with, someone willing to find ideas to work around the circumstances.

Excuse me? Look, I don't think you know what you're asking for, here. That was years and years of work. Gone! Besides, what could I do with proof of alternate universes, anyway? That's great and all, but it doesn't get anyone home. I am going to work on rebuilding my equipment. But it's going to take time. Lots and lots of time.

[That's the kind of reaction he was looking for. Good job, Jane.]

Then good thing you've plenty of it.

[ ... ]

Were you trying to goad me?

Might have been. No need to sound so offended.

Uh, pretty sure I can be offended all I want! That was totally uncalled for!

You'll find that there are a lot of people here that do a lot of things that are uncalled for, especially our captors. Get used to it.

You realize you just put yourself on a level with kidnappers, right?

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