capeandcowl | voice

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† natasha romanov | black widow

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Well, that's that, I suppose.

[There's a pause. She sounds tired.]

I've been gone less than a month, according to the papers. That's how long it takes for other people to move into my house.

[Her tone shifts— she realizes she's being unfair, but she's had a bad day and doesn't really care.]

Also, Matt, we're out of milk.

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A month here, yes, but it's an isolated timeframe that doesn't account for any time experienced outside of it. Therefore, the question is, how long was it at home?

Longer.

Pithy.

It often tends to be. I myself would have returned sometime around your exit, I think, after an entire year's absence. Anything along those lines?

It wasn't a whole year. [Marvel timelines :|] Months, though.

You know it's hard to be upfront about these things. You can't explain the future to the past.

I can relate with that one, having been the past for so long. And now that I'm not in that position so often, some things have to be handled more sensitively. You don't just tell someone the fate they're about to suffer.

Are we sure that's what we're working with here, however? Couldn't hurt to compare notes.

I have no clue.

The last big thing was that business with the hammers.

The hammers, of course. [And the whole thing with Bucky... Best not to touch on that.]

Does Houston ring a bell for you at all?

[She's not very thrilled about the whole thing with Bucky.]

That was… unfortunate.

[Hank always ends up mistakenly believing a Captain America is dead while he's in the City.]

As many things tend to be lately. But that was our most recent mission, from my perspective.

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I took a leave of absence, after that. [Because of the whole thing with Bucky. ]

Understandable, given the circumstances. I really should put thought into the same thing, what with the school to take care of, now.

You're here now. Things are different.

As they tend to be. I imagine I'll forget to have the idea occur to me, upon my eventual return.

It's very frustrating. I hate to forget.

I had a student who once entertained the thought of keeping notes of what he learned here, that they might potentially return with him, if kept on his person.

He's on his third iteration since, now, and has never once recalled what I mean when I bring up the topic.

Perhaps if he got them tattooed.

[He lets out a small chuckle.] Well, that's certainly one way to go about it! Would you take such an extreme measure, if you thought it would help?

Of course not. It would be a security risk.

Rather not know things you shouldn't? Preserve the security of the timeline?

No. It's just hard to keep secrets when they're written on your body.

Fair enough. It wouldn't do unless you could have them removed, or at least covered somehow.

False skin, perhaps.

Wouldn't that defeat the pont?

Not exactly, the purpose of the tattoo would be to, hypothetically I must stress, carry information across the dimensional divide, so it would really be more for your own viewing than anyone else's.

Assuming it even worked, which I find unlikely.

Sure, but if you could hide it from random observers, there's a good chance you'd be hiding it from yourself. With the mindwipes. And all that.

I don't like keeping actionable intelligence on my body, in any case.

Well, at least until you eventually happened to discover the layer of false skin, which, depending on how well it's designed, would be most effective if unnoticed.

But no, it really wouldn't work in any practical manner.

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