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[ferrokinetically]

[ Please give a warm welcome back to a walking representation of early 2000s Hot Topic. The woman that comes on the screen has strikingly green hair, a black studded jacket, and an unenthusiastic expression. ]

Soooo [ she folds her arms across her chest and heaves a sigh. Try to be polite, Polaris. Don't start of making enemies right away. ] I'm Polaris. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has more important things to be doing, so I'll spare you all a complaint filled introduction. [ She's that generous. She runs a hand through hair hair and sighs again. ]

I'll keep it short and sweet: what are the things I need to know about this prison? Rules, problems, problem people, and especially progress you've all made on getting out. That one first preferably. [ Surely someone's made progress, right? Please say someone's made progress. ]

And let me know when the group townhall kumbaya meetings are. We're all stuck here together, right? Guessing people meet occasionally to discuss the shit they've found out. [ A pause and then she awkwardly adds: ] Thanks.

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[athiefalways]

[He chuckles at that.] You been here how long? Maybe they just quiet about it, non?

Well, then, ain't no better time to shake off that rust.

[ferrokinetically]

Or maybe some just are weirdly comfortable. [ That's the impression she's gotten from some of the things she'd heard. It made her uncomfortable to hear about.

She huffs out something between a scoff and chuckle. ]

No better time than after you arrive in some underwater test facility?

[athiefalways]

Maybe, cher, maybe so. [He'd definitely seen evidene to that effect.]

Sometimes, best thing you can do, is follow the road and see where it leads, non?

[ferrokinetically]

Pretty sure that's the fastest way to screw everything up.

[athiefalways]

[He chuckles.]

Don't be so hasty, cher. We got some time to figure this place out.

[ferrokinetically]

You seem oddly okay with this entire situation.

[athiefalways]

It ain't the first time I've ended up somewhere other than where I went to bed.

[ferrokinetically]

[ She laughs. ] That so?

[athiefalways]

[He laughs.]

Now see those are the kinds of stories best told in person, over a beer or two.

[ferrokinetically]

I've been meaning to ask if there's a good place to get a drink here. I feel like I need one.

[athiefalways]

'Course there is, if ya know where to look. I'll show you a tavern where the drinks ain't ever stingy. Drinks are on me.

[ferrokinetically]

You had me at drinks are on you.

[athiefalways]

[He chuckles.]

I girl with simple pleasures. I like that.

[ferrokinetically]

You live in the mutant underground for a few years and you learn to really appreciate the simple things.

[athiefalways]

[And that gave him pause.]

the mutant what?

[ferrokinetically]

The underground. It's the resistance against Sentinel Services.

[athiefalways]

Senetinel Services?

[There was a subtle emphasis on the second word, as though the first wasn't unkown to him.]

[ferrokinetically]

The government's friendly mutant roundup service.

[athiefalways]

[So, the government was successful...]

Round up? Makin' us register wasn't enough?

[ferrokinetically]

Us, hm? [ She'd wondered, but at least he confirmed it now. ] It's illegal to hide that you're a mutant from the government. Sentinel Services is in charge of catching people that try to hide it or who use their powers in public and sending them to detention centers. They also created mutant inhibitor collars and hounds.

[athiefalways]

You think these beauties were contacts, cher?

[He chuckles, for no other reason than to soften the blow of what she said next.] I heard of inhibitor collars, but...do I even wanna know what a hound is?

[ferrokinetically]

Didn't want to assume. [ She smirks very briefly and then shakes her head. ]

We didn't even want to know what the hound program was.

[athiefalways]

That's true. We all know what assumin' does, non?

[He frowned. He didn't want to know, but he did, and she deserved the ear of someone who'd listen and not make light of it.]

How 'bout those beers, eh?

[ferrokinetically]

I wouldn't turn it down right now.

[athiefalways]

Sounds like a plan, then.