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[British accent. Sounds youngish and a little bit high and mighty.]

I don't want to be a superhero. What is more: I'm not going to be a superhero. I am perfectly content to work to help reestablish safety in the City, but I won't fight. That is hardly going to help anyone, not in the long term. He cannot expect me to discard everything that I've believed in all my life after he kidnaps me from—

I am not a soldier, and I am not fighting in any man's war, even if it is against crime.

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It won't be worse than what they've already done.

That's a strange kind of optimism you're spouting, there.

Edited 2009-05-25 02:32 (UTC)

Hardly.

You don't know anything about here. It's not very pretty.

Though I will say, in the spirit of charity, where I came from is was a damn sight worse.

It isn't worse than where I'm from. It can't be. Nothing should be worse than that.

Yeah, well, in my experience the world doesn't work according to how it oughta.

I would say the same, but you can't help hoping.

Sure, I can follow. But I can't imagine getting whisked here without a warning or a please makes you much inclined toward pleasant thoughts.

From what I've seen, this might actually be better than my home.

Are you from Warsaw or something?

I was living in London before I was— taken here. And before that, I was working in a hospital with wounded soldiers.

I lived in London for-- three or four years, before this place. Not that you can tell by talking to me, but [insert accent-- he's pretty good!] I can imitate the manner of speaking tolerably well, if I must. [/accent]

I'd only been there a short while; you lived there longer than I did. I'm from the country.

I'm from all over.

Really? Not to be rude, but you sound a bit American.

America's a big place. And I never stayed in one part of it for very long. Plus, lessee, aside from that stint in London I spent about six months in Paris, and Iron Cross nabbed me from Germany, and I been to a lot of other places besides.

That sounds terribly exciting. What did you do before you came here?

Invaders.

What?

It's a team. If you haven't heard of it, well, it means you're not from my world. There're loads of teams here, though.

No, I suppose not. Superheroes aren't real in— my world.

We were the first.

We might still be from the same world. After all, this is seventy years after I left my world. You never know.

Doubt it. The Torch and Namor blew up the Bowery back in '39, and I am eighty-four years old.

I think I would have heard of superheroes, even if they were on another continent.

I'm eighty-eight, I suppose.

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