capeandcowl | 17 ➴ [voice]

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† kate bishop | hawkeye

17 ➴ [voice]

Either he's doing a great job of screening his calls and avoiding his obligations, or Alex Aaron's been ported out. If it's the first option, anyone who knows where he's hiding can feel free to pass on the message that Kate needs him to assemble a bookcase and April needs him for Xbox reasons.

And if it's the second option and he's actually not here anymore... well, I guess it's too bad he didn't have one of those ex-Port trackers installed on his communicator so we'd know for sure.

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That's the name of the AI that controls the porter. She named herself after the mythological fate.

Well, it isn't a bad name. [ Strange, sure, but not awful and corny. Then again, Claire didn't know the subject. ]

Do we ever see her on this?

I've seen her on here once or twice, and that's only to mock us when we've really messed up or pissed her off.

Do we get sent back if we piss her off enough?

No. If you piss her off, she'll strand you in Antarctica or the Andes.

[ ... ]

Oh.

That's not very nice of her.

She's not a very nice machine. Being a kidnapper and all.

Well, she is a computer. They're never the good guys in the movies.

True.

So did you just port in or something?

Is it that obvious?

There's like twenty questions people tend to ask on their first day.

Do I get an award for not reaching twenty yet?

Sure. You've earned a coveted 'No Prize'. Congratulations.

I'm Kate, by the way. Welcome to the City.

Whoopee.

Thanks, I'm Claire.

Did you just port in today?

Yeah. I'm still considering all of this some kind of coma dream.

It's a collective coma dream, if anything. And an unending one. I've been here two years next month and I haven't woken up yet.

Two years. [ She sounds disbelieving, but ... weirder things have happened. ]

I think I'll go insane before I even make it to the six month mark.

I thought I would too. But this place is full of distractions, it's hard to stay focused on your own problems long enough to really go insane.

Good distractions?

More along the lines of alien invasions or Godzilla attacks.

Seriously?

I couldn't make this up.

And I thought things back home were ridiculous.

You have this sort of thing in your world?