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[The woman who appears on the feed might be familiar to a few people. She's sitting at a table or a desk and facing the camera, composed, but a little worse for wear. She looks tired.]

You sure know how to make a girl feel at home. [Not that she's faced frost giants or dark elves before, but dropped into the middle of a fight she wasn't expecting and wasn't prepared for? One that probably should be left to gods and super soldiers? That is familiar. The last two days haven't been boring] Is that normal?

[Natasha taps the table in front of her twice, drawing a slow breath as she considers how she's going to play this. If putting her face on the network is a mistake, then she's already made it.]

I think I'm ready for the welcoming committee now.

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Well, that part isn't new. [That was Natasha's play—that namedropping Steve in the right way might extend a little trust her way by extension, though she knows better than to strain that trust too far or expect more than a foot in the door. That's good enough.] And it doesn't change.

[mucked]

Even as everything else seems to.

[ change. but oh that's a damn shot too melancholy, isn't it? so she redirects the conversation back to the here and the now. ]

I don't suppose you've run into those giant-types before, have you? [ after all, they're supposed to be from 'home,' in effect. ] As they're straight out of the memory of one of ours.

[ it leaves a funny taste in her mouth to lump herself into that group. ]

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[Strictly speaking, she has, but she didn't know it at the time. She's only ever seen Loki as an Asgardian.]

No. As far as I know, those are strictly Thor's problem. I've heard some stories from him, but that's as close as I've come.

[mucked]

Thor. [ a huff. ] That's the 'God,' yes? [ an academic question; it's not like she hasn't witnessed bits and bobs of norse mythology before. but maybe she wants to hear this woman's take on it.

gods, that is. ]

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For all practical intents and purposes.

[Which says a lot. It's not that Natasha believes they're gods or in magic, per se; it's that the semantic distinction between gods and people who live for centuries, are nearly indestructible and wield powers indistinguishable from magic.]

Asgardian, technically.

[mucked]

Asgardian. [ she echoes. ] Technically.

[ peggy presses her lips together. ]

Many of those running around come the 21st century? Or merely the one?