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[andaway]

[Have a certain alien in a brightly-colored uniform in front of the mirror. Kal seems to be sitting front of the singing statues, the hymns marking the start of the message. It seems like he's been writing the hymns, trying to makes sense of them- they ring a bell, like he's heard them before but he can't quite place it.

Which is a new sensation for him. But considering most of his powers are gone he should get used to it.]

I know we're all settling in, so I will keep this short. I just figured we may as well use this... magic, or technology or whatever this happens to be.

I'd just like to know how long have all of you been here, if we all got here more or less at the same time. And...

[He wonders how to word what comes next. If this is someone's plot, if he's inside someone's... spell, or something by the sort he doesn't want to give them any clues about his weaknesses.]

Have you felt any... different since you woke up here?

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[andaway]

Yes. Well, I could, back home but that seems to have been stripped away in this place.

[He smiles, like it isn't bothering her. And it doesn't, really, but he does have a bit of an issue with them taking his abilities away from him without his permission. They are part of who they are, after all.]

And I doubt anyone's really 'not really anybody', but I get what you mean. So powers, magic and that kind of thing are new to you?

I'm Kal-El, by the way.

[followingdawn]

Magic's not new. Nothing I ever learned, though.

[ He's seen the kind of effort mages, at least in his world, have to put into their studies. There's never been room in his life for that kind of thing. ]

I'm Sothe.

[andaway]

Neither have I, never had the skill for it.

[And he's always had a bit of a dislike for magic in general anyway, so.]

Pleasure, Sothe. If we're going to be working together to... well, whatever the purpose of this place is and to eventually get back home we should probably get to know each other.

[followingdawn]

I guess that's true.

[ He's better at being a suspicious little shit than at team bonding, honestly. ]

[andaway]

I am used to working with other people back home, though. Especially when I'm out of my usual abilities.

What about you?

[followingdawn]

When I have to, I guess.

[ A slightly uncomfortable fidget. He's not...all that fond of it, largely because he's not all that fond of having to trust other people to have his back. ]

[andaway]

I'm getting the feeling it's going to be needed in this place. Sorry about that.

[followingdawn]

Well, it's not like complaining about it is gonna change anything.

[ He learned at an early age to accept that shit happens and you're stuck with it. ]