capeandcowl | xiii | voice; forward dated to saturday evening

[ PRIVATE to NICK FURY and BOBBI MORSE ]

Hector Peck might be a dead end. I don't think he's involved at all with Vulcanus or that New Vesuvius city. He's just an editor for a newspaper here and keeps himself busy with that. Nothing out of the ordinary with his schedule or work.

[ /end private ]

[ When Gil speaks up, he sounds as if he's slightly congested. ]

I believe Raven has been ported out. If she had any previous or future engagements to attend to I'm sorry, but I don't think she'll be showing up. I haven't heard from or seen her around the house since before some of us were ported to New Vesuvius.

I'm not sure what to do yet about her belongings. It seems too soon to pack them away somewhere so they aren't lying around the place, doesn't it? A bit rude, too... [ He sighs. It's hard to finish cleaning the place when he's caught in a tiny dilemma like this!! ]

It's always going to be impossible to predict how long before people return. [ A beat. ] If they do.

[ Followed by another pause, as if he may add something to that thought. ]

Ah, never mind.

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Probably. But any information could be of value. A clue is a clue, we can't ignore it because we haven't figured it out yet.

Have you been able to find anything yet? It feels like the trail gets colder everyday now.

Nothing substantial yet. Everyone of those names you gave us seems to be ordinary in every way imaginable.

Their lives are different... like ours were over there.

Aside from the names and the generalities, there's no connection to their other lives. These people don't seem to have anything to do with Vulcanus at all.

Edited (that made no sense... aka i need to type my sentences before hitting send ;;) 2013-07-13 04:36 (UTC)

And there's no way to find out what led them to Vulcanus and their jobs in New Vesuvius.

Can people truly be that different in other worlds?

Not unless we can draw some other parallels between them.

They have different motivations, maybe. And the timeline, wasn't that altered somehow? Something as small as that can have a devastating impact when it comes to alternate realities. [She thinks of the AU versions of her own friends that she's met, from the incest-obsessed Scarlet Witch to the present version of Cap who had no idea who she was when he ported in.]

Were you there for the world with all those ships?

No, I wasn't. Were you?

I've been to each one so far.

Did you see Kurt Wagner's entry about it? We found this book with some kind of strange text.

I remember seeing that. Where did you even find that text?

In a bookstore. It was just there.

Out in the open, like it was nothing?

Well, not in the open, but it seemed too convenient it was in a bookstore we walked into.

Unless it's a text everyone knows about.

So you were meant to see it. So the meaning isn't just a coincidence.

"With that bright light, the clouds sizzled.
Volcanoes exploded and the seas flooded.
Doom came.
Vulcanus, they said, needed us.
They took some of us."

That's what the text said.

Could someone have left it there for us after all? The bookshop owner hardly noticed us himself.

I don't see why not. That shop owner didn't happen to notice anyone unusual in the shop before you arrived?

No. It was only us in the shop.

I don't believe in coincidences. [At least she doesn't today.] You were meant to see that text.

There weren't anymore of them, right?

I didn't check, though I should have. I got so engrossed in that book. It had pictures of Skrulls as well.

Well that's disturbing. What else do you remember? Anything could be a clue.

That world was just as hostile as New Vesuvius, but perhaps because they were forced to live on ships.

A world completely submerged...

It's like something out of a crappy movie.

But this means Vulcanus is in multiple worlds and they've taken advantage of them already. Is it too late for those ones?

I don't know yet, hon. Let's work on saving one world at a time.

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