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[outstandingbalance]

[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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[morethan084]

[Daisy laughs bitterly at that.]

Yeah.

Which is saying something considering all the stuff we've seen back home.

[outstandingbalance]

[The use of we is interesting. Natasha files it away for later. For the time being, she'll stay on topic—other questions can wait for later.]

If those show up, it might be time to officially retire.

[morethan084]

That's cute. We both know retiring from SHIELD never works out.

[Daisy left them on pretty bad terms and they were still trying to bring her back.]

[outstandingbalance]

You're not exactly wrong about that.

[But SHIELD isn't exactly trying to bring her back into the fold right now as it is. Natasha has to wonder just when Daisy is from, if she doesn't know that. Or maybe she does? Hard to say how things shake out that way, and Natasha holds back from asking outright.]

So far, I've had a pretty good record.

[morethan084]

Really?

[Yeah. She didn't know.]

How did that happen? You know, if you want to talk about it.

[Did Natasha know about her? After all, she had been all over the news. Maybe she didn't know. Or maybe she didn't want to ask.]

[outstandingbalance]

[It might be a little early to answer that question how it deserves.]

Well, I left the KGB for SHIELD, and SHIELD for the Avengers.

[That's all public knowledge already.]

Seems to have worked so far.

[morethan084]

Seems so.

[Daisy was sure Natasha wanted to check out this place though, and with how she had personally left SHIELD she was good with a topic change.]

If you need help figuring out things around here, let me know. Some of it is pretty weird.

[outstandingbalance]

I'll keep that in mind.

[A pause, then adding:] Thanks. I appreciate it.

[morethan084]

See you around, I'm sure. You can only go in circles so many times.

[Not that the place was that small, but, it does feel claustrophobic if she thinks about it too much.]