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[touchandheal]

It is a clear and quiet morning on the Maximoff estate, staff moving about performing their normal duties with little fuss

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[land_n_sea]

Namor, however, is not quite so lucky. He had been previously been about to walk into a restroom in a high end restaurant in New York City. Instead, he takes a step into open air and ends up face planting in the dust not too far from a horse.

And hooves. Big, heavy, sharp hooves.

[touchandheal]

Marie is busily extracting herself from the hay with minimal success, ending up rolling out of it onto the dirt floor and onto her back, breathing heavily.

A sneeze quickly follows.

[land_n_sea]

"Imperious Rex!"

Namor pushes himself up off the ground, brushing his suit off as he does so, hovering slightly off of the ground. "What deviltry is..." Catching sight of Marie, he pauses and heads over, offering her a hand.

"My lady."

[touchandheal]

He gets a look, from the top of his head down to the tips of his toes, and back to...

Wings? She takes the hand and allows herself to be pulled to her feet, making certain to take a step back once she's steady.

"Who the hell are you?"

[spidey2099]

Unceremoniously dumped to the ground nearby is a man in a blue-so-dark-it's-black bodysuit and a torn-up batch of weird webbing on his back that forms an ugly cape. With a big gaudy bauble bracelet on his forearm.

[land_n_sea]

"Well."

Namor's brows are arched looking around, "Can someone actually take a moment to explain what in Neptune's waterlogged beard is going on here?"

[spidey2099]

He gets to his knees.

This is eerily familiar.

"Aw, shock. Are we doing this again?"

[proteus_maximus]

"Spidey! So glad to see you, pal!"

Morph moves over to wrap the nominal team leader in an impulsive hug.

"Looks like we might be getting saddled with a bunch of newbies. You want to give them the spiel, or shall I?"

[wanda_maximoff]

A woman's voice can be heard in the distance, and judging by the increasing volume of voice and footsteps, she is coming closer.

"Sha, sha, beautiful ones, swift ones, whatever disturbs you, we will deal with it, I swear--"

[canadiansixpack]

There is another set of footsteps, marked mostly by the soft clinking of metal as it moves with the unidentifiable person. The woman's voice is cut off abruptly, though the intervening voice is low and urgent, and difficult to discern the words, it is clearly male. The footsteps halt.

[land_n_sea]

Namor tilts his head to the side, listening to the voice approaching and then the cessation of the voice. Pressing his lips together, he heads toward the sound of the voices, not looking to see if his newfound compatriots are following him.

His hands are out to the sides and his feet are on the ground for the moment.

[proteus_maximus]

Morph gets quiet, for a change - listening to the approaching voices.

"Ruh-roh."

[canadiansixpack]

The Duke takes the proffered weapon from the Marchioness' doppelganger with cautious interest, glancing over it briefly before handing it to one of his men. "You would have ambushed a fine herd of horses, certainly," he counters, "Though here you would have headed next and how you would escape given your clear unfamiliarity with the territory will have to remain a mystery."

A brief hand gesture, and the group is moved off towards the Lady Maximoff's estate - and a more sequestered setting.

[wanda_maximoff]

Wanda's solarium is a quiet, peaceful place, hung about with bright tapestries depicting a mountainous countryside rather unlike the landscape of the Maximoff estate.

The mistress of the estate seats herself in her chair and automatically reaches for her sewing basket, taking out a small pair of trousers with a hole in one knee. As she begins to patch the garment, she seems more relaxed than she had in the stables.

And yet, despite her obvious concentration on the task, her gaze frequently returns to the one called Jean-Paul who is not Lord Beaubier.

[exiles_jpb]

He has no qualms with meeting her eyes. His direct stare is challenging, and certainly insolent for one who is not the lady's equal in station.

"You have an interest in my counterpart, I think." Again, that growling tone that is almost an accent in itself.

[wanda_maximoff]

"Lord Beaubier has been and continues to be a good friend," she says with quiet dignity. "I thank God each morning that our family has been blessed by such friends, and by such a liege lord as His Grace." She nods at the duke.