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[softenedbyme]

[The message begins with a blue hand readjusting the device and the sound of a cleared throat. A face that matches the blue hand appears, yellow eyes wide with a mix of confusion, curiosity and caution.]

Has anyone with abilities noticed that they're...[Raven pauses, her eyes flicking off-screen with a sigh.] Different than they used to be? Slower

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[flipsalltables]

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[To say Thor is curious about what she is would be an understatement. She looks Jotun, except her eyes are yellow and not red. Still, he won't ask just yet.]

I have noticed this. My powers are limited. Much of what I used to be able to do has been weakened, or outright stopped.

[softenedbyme]

[Raven nods. At least it isn't just her, though it's still very worrying.]

Do you think they did something to us?

[flipsalltables]

I do not know. They harmed us, that is for certain, but then there are these things. [He raises his wrist to show the bangle around it.]

[softenedbyme]

It won't come off.

[She tried shifting into someone with smaller wrists, and it still stayed perfectly fitted.]

[flipsalltables]

Nor will mine. No amount of brute fore will take it away, and it burns me when I try too hard.

[Apparently, his does something a bit different, given he can't exactly be electrocuted like non-electric beings can be.] It would seem they may well be the cause of this.

[softenedbyme]

...It burned you? Mine kind of shocked me.

[flipsalltables]

Perhaps because I am impervious to electrical harm, it burns me instead.

[softenedbyme]

Oh? That makes sense. This place thinks of everything.

[flipsalltables]

It does. [He pauses then, and gives her a smile as he nods once in almost a bow.] I am Thor Odinson. You are?

[softenedbyme]

[She nods. How gentlemanly.]

My name is Raven, Raven Darkholme.

[flipsalltables]

It is a pleasure to meet you, Raven Darkholme. Are you alone from your realm? You have similarities to the Frost Giants, but you are not one, are you?

[softenedbyme]

No one else I know is here.

[She takes a moment to think over "Frost Giants". What does that even mean, Thor?] I don't know what they are but I don't think I am? I'm human...kind of.

[flipsalltables]

That is unfortunate. [Or maybe fortunate for the people she loves not to be trapped here.]

You are a unique kind of human, then. A Frost Giant is... a giant... born of ice, hailing from the realm of Jotunheim. They are blue, as you are, but their eyes are red.

[softenedbyme]

I'm a mutant, so yes, I am unique. [All mutants are.]

How are they born of ice? That sounds really cold.

[flipsalltables]

A mutant? [What he knows of mutations, it's not a thing to be proud of. It's a deformity.]

They are from the ice realm of Jotunheim, creatures who are made of and live within the frost.

[softenedbyme]

Yes. [Raven is proud of hers, it isn't a deformity.]

...Oh. I'm definitely not a Frost Giant.