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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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I still see things that surprise me all the time. Then again, besides the dragons? My world isn't exactly fantastic. Sooo I still encounter a lot of things here I never even knew existed before.

Iiiif it makes you feel any better, I'm pretty sure my world's the same way. Everything's normal except the superheroes.

[Except the...]

Superheroes?

[ A laugh. ]

Yeah, believe it or not. I'm guessing you don't have those back home.

Nope. Just, uh, regular heroes. I guess. War heroes. That sort of thing.

[Dragon slayers. Though that was a less heroic virtue these days.]

We have war heroes too. But in the US, we also have one that was known for putting on spandex and appearing in propaganda films in the 40's. And then somehow showed up at seventy years later. It's weird.

[Hiccup knows what spandex is thanks to his time as the Boy Who Never Grew Up. Why would anyone put that on voluntarily?]

Uh...huh. Sounds kind of...a strange appearance for a hero.

I'm pretty sure the outfit was picked for him. Eventually, the story goes, he quit the propaganda business and started being a soldier for real, but the outfit stuck. It was symbolic, by then.

[ She smiles, a little crookedly. ] I guess everyone felt like they needed a hero they could look to.

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