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Has this ever happened to you?!

The theory is beautiful but the practice is ehhhh, the spirit is willing but the flesh needs canon revision, the muse is new and the task is daunting, and people on plurk were like OMG GO APPLY but you were like eehhhhhhhhhhh again and entranceway, what is it with this weird game and questionable run-on sentences in its memes is there no law is there no order is there no country for old men or young men or a bigger animanga cast WILL I LIVE UP TO MY EXPECTATIONS AND THE EXPECTATIONS SOCIETY PLACES UPON ME WHY ARE YOU STILL TYPING LOOK I JUST WANT TO PLAY A FEW THREADS AND SEE HOW THAT CHARACTER WORKS OUT IN THIS GAME oh wait you just want to play a few threads and see how that character works out in this game this game of wonderful Wonderlands well then

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jane foster | thor

[interspatial]

gardens / fountain

Excuse me.

[ the alto voice comes from behind, and whether her target realizes what's happening or not, jane doesn't seem to care. she also seems unfazed by the fact that she is in the fountain-- well, was in the fountain. the sound of splashing water drowns her exclamations as she wades out and toward her quarry. her voice notches up an octave when she tries again: ]

Excuse me! Stop! You're interfering with my readings!

[ you know, the ones she's decided to take right in the middle of a very trafficked area of wonderland. sheesh, dude. ]

ain't that too many pups in one place?

[ if the piles of puppies aren't enough to block your way, there is a woman sitting among them in the entrance hall with equipment surrounding her (and also puppies) including but not limited to various pieces of glass, a pile of prisms, and what just looks like random pieces of cardboard and screens scattered on the floor. ]

Hi-- can you please grab that grey one? No, the other-- the darker grey, yes! And just-- just move him off my main prism there?

[ and as frustrated as she sounds, jane seems to be rather calm and gentle as she picks up and replaces puppies to make her way back to her equipment, a small book tucked under her arm. when she finally gets to the middle, she takes a moment to regard the only other talking being here. ]

Actually, can you stay? I need someone to keep them away from my set up.

fountain

[sorryitasedyou]

[It's the voice that gets her to look up from her new phone first, promptly driving her to drop it as she all but runs over to the fountain. There's no hesitation as she climbs into the fountain to hug her friend.]

Jane! Oh my god, you're actually back!

[Aaaaaaaaaaaand guess who doesn't care about the readings right now. Instead she sloshes through the water and embraces her friend, almost like she hadn't seen her in 3 months and approximately 21 days...]

You have no idea how much I've missed you.

[interspatial]

Dar--heugh! [ ok yep that sure is an intern hug that pops a small metal piece of equipment out of jane's hand to plunk! into the water below them. ] You're rebuilding that.

[ jane will now proceed an attempt at wriggling out of what seems to be a hug from the hulk... ]

[sorryitasedyou]

I'll get a new doo-hickey from the closet. Promise. [And fine. She'll let go for now, but not before giving her boss a soft pinch just to make sure she's real.]

Bruce has the lab set back up in the basement, sorry everything you were working on before is gone. I also have a coffee shop so I'll have to show you that so that you can get your coffee fix on the way to the lab. OH! Most of us are on the 7th floor, although I have another room on the 1st - but that's not important. [/cough] What's important is that you're here! You're back and oh yeah, Thor's here too.

[Yeah, she probably should have started with that.]

I can show you the roof - we can stop off for coffee and a new thingamabob for you on the way up.

[interspatial]

[ every time jane tries to get a word in edgewise darcy seems to just have more to say so after a few attempts and feeling like there's some very serious role-switching happening right now, she proceeds to just wave her hands in circles to try to get darcy's attention. ]

Woah-woah-woah! Darc-- Darcy! Stop! Back up. What are you talking about?

[ it's very rare that jane is this very lost and not following. she's usually the one losing other people. only the mentions of coffee and a lab are helping jane stay convinced this is real darcy and not some body-snatched version. ok well "thingamabob" also is a pretty good indicator as well.

still, jane is just staring and waiting. oh wait no she's not hang on she has to grab that part darcy dropped real quick ok yes now staring. explanation, por favor. ]

[sorryitasedyou]

[Yeah, well, she's got a lot to cover. Like a lot. Especially since it seems like Jane doesn't remember anything here... So call it a year to cover... Give or take a few months.

She gives a little sigh, holding her hands up to start over. She wasn't good at the whole being the responsible one with all the answers. Ok, time to focus.]

Ok, so. This place - it's Wonderland, like fell down the rabbit hole and whaddup psycho Red Queen with an army of mirrors and a weird core thing on the other side. [She's not even gonna get into the Jabberwocky, ok bad non-existent memories of being eaten by the thing are gonna be for a later date.] The closets are magic. The mansion is magic. The beach? Magic. The rooms? Magic. [Are you starting to pick up the trend here, Jane? Darcy is already climbing out of the fountain, trying to be a nice person and not drag Jane along since they'd probably both end up soaked.]

C'mon, grand tour time. Let's roll.

[interspatial]

[ she doesn't move with darcy immediately, used to her intern's rambling so much so that sometimes she doesn't quite keep up with it as darcy goes. ]

Magic.

[ as preoccupied as jane is, the repeated word worms its way into her head first before she catches up with the rest of the hurried explanation. it's then that jane moves dutifully forward after darcy (and for anyone new to the relationship between these two women, magic might be a common descriptor for darcy's ability to corral the scientist in this manner). ]

What have you seen? [ observation before evidence before conclusions. jane's voice has lost its impatience, replaced with burning curiosity and maybe a little pride. this isn't new subject matter, but it seems darcy has already begun forming hypotheses. whether it's with purpose or not doesn't seem to matter much. ]

[radioing]

( Raven's taken a room as low down in the mansion as she possibly could, although most days she's still tempted to find a tent and sleep outside. It was what they'd had to do on the ground and even that one flight of stairs is difficult with her crutches.

Today there seems to be something even more difficult than stairs. As Raven's trying to cross the hall, making her way from the stairs across to the kitchen she finds her path blocked - or at least a path blocked to someone who needs careful navigation. There is a pile of puppies in the middle of the floor, and even more just milling around - running, rolling, doing everything possible to stop Raven being able to easily get around them.

And then the voice asks her a question. With the way the woman is working on moving some puppies, looking at them rather than her Raven can only assume she'd heard the noise on the stairs and spoke up because- how the hell is she going to wrangle puppies? )

You want me to do what?

( All she'd wanted was a damn sandwich. She wasn't a puppy handler. They were too much )

[interspatial]

[ jane sighs because she is almost always frustrated when she has to interact with the other people in wonderland. questions and questions and very few answers. the data is generally more companionable than talking beings. that's darcy's job anyway. ]

I need to keep this area clear-- oh. [ so yeah it maybe took her awhile to register those crutches. oops. jane sits on her feet, knees tucked under her while she watches raven for a second. ] Do you know anything about spectroscopy?

[radioing]

I know it's light refraction.

She took her eyes off Jane for the moment, stepping down the last few steps until Raven was stood at the bottom of the staircase. That was as far as she was getting for now but at least it was slightly better than still being on the stairs )

What, you're checking how light refracts on puppies? Pretty sure creating a prism out of them isn't the same, but I'm not a scientist.

( Just a wise cracking mechanic. A hungry one )

[interspatial]

[ that does make jane chuckle, and she slowly and carefully gets to her feet while making sure no more yelping comes from an accidentally-squished pooch. she already feels bad about that one before that we're not talking about. ]

Kind of. Can you sit? I can walk you through just a few rudimentary experiments, and keep the puppies away from the work area. I just need a few test results from in here.

[ and even though raven hasn't answered, jane seems to be making her way toward the girl. ]

[radioing]

( Raven doesn't reply but she does shrug one of her crutches from her, moving it to her other hand as she presses a hand on the banister, slowly lowering herself to sit on the steps. It gets a little tricky when she runs out of arm length but thankfully the drop isn't that far, just a small bump down )

Alright, but they're probably going to get prodded.

( She can try and use a crutch as a barrier to keep some of them from wandering away. It might end up with poked pooch. And maybe she can wrangle a sandwich from Jane afterwards. She did stop and help )

Where did you even get the dogs?

[interspatial]

I think they can handle it -- they just started piling in after I got here. I fell asleep last night working on something else, and when I woke up I thought I'd gone colorblind.

[ jane moves to help clear a path in the animals and let raven through. they seem relatively durable, considering that she just toes a few out of the way. one little guy keeps trying to follow so jane just scoops him up and brings him along with her. ]

When it turned out it was affecting everyone, I figured the first place to start is to see if we can refract the spectra and determine whether this affects the way light is filtered or our eyes. Since I'm not a biologist, I figured a quick and dirty spectroscope couldn't hurt.

[radioing]

You fell asleep out here? And I thought people would think I was weird for sleeping outside.

( Well to be fair Raven would have been camping. That's infinitely less weird than sleeping in a hallway. Or working so hard you fall asleep on your work. Or a dog )

You know I could probably help you build the thing. Might be more use than dog herding.

( Mechanic go. Give her hands something to fiddle with and she's happy )

[interspatial]

Didn't I say that? I'm walking you through them. It's already built and all you have to do is observe and take some measurements for me.

[ hardly glamorous, but the girl can barely move. jane eyes her crutches, tilting her head. ]

Can I use one of your crutches?