Kirah

Through the Doors of our hearts - Finished

Sumi glared at the guard, not that she was intimidating anyway, she was a chubby Asian girl from a land of sugar. She turned around and marched off irritated. "Astrid, what is your opinion on rule breaking?" Sumi knew what world Astrid was from and that it was a lawful sort of world, but it was on the Morte scale which made it sort of odd anyway. "Let's go to the fountain. Hopefully, someone else had more luck than us." The skies opened up and rain poured down on them. Sumi lifted the hood of her jacket and looked even more sullen than before.

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Katalina and Christopher had no issue finding a fountain. It had been ostentatious when it had first been installed. Now many many years later it was a wreck, but it was being used by a small group of people washing their clothing. As the entered the clearing rain started pouring down on them. The people washing the clothes didn't seem to care, they only paused for a second before resuming their chore.

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Kade nodded at Wash.
"Nice to meet you," Hannah said. She was still covered in mud. "You wouldn't know a way into the - " Kade shoved an elbow into Hannah side. She didn't wince but she gave him a dirty look. "What we're here to find out and he might know. At least then it would be someone with connections to our group." Kade's eyes darted around the room. Hannah seemed to get the message then and nodded.
"Would you care to join us at the town fountain Wash?"

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Niah Bautista

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Location: The Playground
Skills: N/A

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Niah waited for orders from Tinley and when she was given none she looked at Tempest and said "I'll check my laptop and bring it to you if it was on and open." If there was anything for her to do after that she would step in as needed. Niah knew perfectly well she wasn't a great field agent. Her skills were best for aftermath, or as the infiltration into the bank had taught her getting information. Her gaze paused on the new guy and wondered if Tinely and her would ask him a few questions later, just in case.

She hurried to her room, saw that her laptop had indeed been open and on she sighed relieved and could only hope Tempest could pull something from it. Though the thought also made her a bit nervous and she would have to remember to cover the camera when she didn't want it on, like when she was changing. Niah grabbed it and the charger, just in case and went back to Tempest's room. "When you're ready. Focus on the Purifiers first. I appreciate your help." She told her offering it over.

Through the Doors of our hearts - Finished

Sumi shook her head. "Sorry I don't Astrid." The two were able to make it to the front of the castle with no more interference. There were two guards there outside the gate.

"Halt, what is your purpose?"
"I want to get to the top of the castle," Sumi said straightforward. The guards looked at each other a little startled.
"That is not permitted." The second guard responded. Sumi frowned.
"What does it take to get to the top?"
"No one is allowed up there." The first guard responded. Sumi glanced at Astrid.

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Hannah looked at Alexander frustrated. "I tend to be a brute force type, not go with the flow." She shrugged and stomped her way through the mud after Kade and Alexander. Kade realized what Alexander's idea was as they approached the bar.
"Good idea." He complimented him. The three of them entered the bar, which was exactly what one would expect in a town that pulled in the lost. No one seemed to blink an eye when they entered either. Not a single chair in the room matched. Each table had several people at them and it seemed as if not a single person matched either. There were people in just about every type of outfit imaginable. Someone caught Alexander's eye, it wasn't that they stood out among the motley group of people, but it was a face he knew. A young man who had fallen from the ship and had never been seen again. The man had been assumed dead.

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Christopher came to the same conclusion as Katalina as they walked around the mote. There were strong defense points that he knew would be manned if the place were ever to be attacked, and it appeared, as far as he could tell, to be a perfect replica of some Disney-esque castle. He had no idea which one but knew that if someone who did know saw it they would be able to inform him.

It was Katalina who noticed though as they passed a shed that it not only had several well intact boards but also an old ladder that when poked seemed to hold together well enough that it would bear their weight if they climbed one at a time. There was something odd about the way it felt when touched as if it was waiting to be used.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Niah Bautista

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Location: The Playground (Tempest's room)
Skills: N/A

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Niah was relieved they didn't think she was nuts. "Yeah I think it is time travel related." She looked to Cass, "If you want to deal with them you can." Then she turned to Tempest. "Yeah, I have a laptop in my room. I don't know if it was open and on though." Niah frowned. She looked down at the postcard looking at her writing. "It is also important to note that the writing seems aged as if it traveled the long way through time."

Anything else Niah would have said was cut off when the alarm started warning of the Purifiers. She groaned. "Guess we'll deal with this first."

Through the Doors of our hearts - Finished

Kade led Hannah and Alexander into the town square. He raised an eyebrow as Alexander started to sing and a soft smile spread across his face. Hannah followed behind the two of them flexing her arms, and yet somehow not cold. "Kade," Hannah started. "This place is dangerous because it makes us want to stay." Kade nodded. There wasn't anymore he needed to add to that. She caught a snowflake in her hand it stayed for a while before it started melting. The rest of the snow melted at the same time and what had been crunchy snow was now slick mud, the cold stayed the same. Hannah lost her footing. "You've got to be kidding me." She shouted sliding in the mud frustrated. Kade was able to maintain his balance and reached a hand to Hannah to help her back up. "Guess we should have brought cleats or something," Hannah said brushing the mud off of herself.

Sumi nodded at Astrid. "You and I are straightforward types, might as well take that approach." As the ground got muddy Sumi's face scrunched up annoyed. It was still freezing cold, and now the ground took more attention to pass through. "This place is annoying." She complained while trying to find a clear path, she was able to maintain her balance but it was not easy.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Niah Bautista

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Location: The Playground
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"Either of you I suppose." Niah started. "It is a very weird request though. First I need to see if anyone has been in my room." She paused, this next part would sound absolutely crazy and she knew it. "Specifically me." She looked at both of their faces to assess how much they believed her.

"I found this in my room, on my desk. She held up the postcard. "I don't think anyone but me could do that without you guys knowing. What is extra strange is the date is from before I was born, but when I touched the card with my bare hand I saw myself writing the date. I have no memory of doing that. And there was a newspaper in view that confirms the date. The clothes I could see matched the era too." It was the most Niah had said in one sitting in weeks, and her voice cracked a little. She shifted uncertainly. Hoping that she didn't sound quite as crazy as she felt she did.

Through the Doors of our hearts - Finished

"Be careful," Kade said in response to Alexander. "This place will constantly be changing." Again as if summoned by their words the wind died down and snow started to fall. The snowflakes were the size of their hands. The temperature dropped dramatically and the group started to shiver. Kade pulled out a heavy jacket from his bag. He looked to Alexander, "See prepare for everything." Oddly Hannah was the only one in the group who didn't look cold, even though they could probably estimate that the temperature had dropped to below zero degrees on the Fahrenheit scale.

Sumi thought for a moment as she pulled on a heavy parka, her fingertips already were turning blue. "Kade go into the market, the three of you see if you can find out if there is like a tour of the castle that we can get in on, or maybe they are looking for new employees." She shrugged uncertainly. "Katalina see if there is a mote and if there is try to find a way around it. A way that works for all of us." She added the last part almost as an afterthought. "Astrid and I will try the front gate. In thirty minutes let us all meet near a fountain in the town square. If multiple go for the biggest one."

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Niah Bautista

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Location: The Playground
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Niah nodded. "I appreciate it anyway." She said and was about to go find Tempest. The one out of the three that Maria said could probably help the most that Niah trusted the most. She paused though when Maria asked what was up. "It sounds crazy." She looked at the postcard in her gloved hand. "But the basic is this ended up in my room, I want to see who put it there. If it is who I think," Fear was more like it but Niah wasn't ready to talk about her wild theory yet. "It is, well then we've got some work ahead of us. Thank you though. I'll let you know."

She gave Maria a small smile and then nodded at Novikova, their relationship hadn't improved and Niah had given up. Niah didn't want to get close to any more people. She left Technology and went to Tempest's room hoping she would be there. Niah knocked and said "It is me, Niah, I need help with something." Then waited for permission to enter.

Through the Doors of our hearts - Finished

Kade stepped through the doorway and as he appeared for a moment anyone looking his direction could see armor and a sword at his side. He shifted looking uncomfortable for a fleeting moment, and then he was his normal collected self. "Alright, we need to get to the top of the tower, and Alexander you'll like this bit. We're jumping from it. You might be able to find what we need when get up there, but first, we need to worry about getting through the town. Sumi this is your quest. What is your plan?"

"Where is this land on the compass?" Sumi asked him.

"It isn't," Kade replied his lips tightened. Her eyes went wide. "It is the in-between. You're all likely to find things here that appear to be from your world. There is no guarantee that they are actually from your worlds. Be on guard, this place will try to keep you. It is where lost things go to die." Christopher swallowed loudly and his hand rested on the bone in his pocket. "So what is your plan?"

"You said we need to go to the castle top right?" Kade nodded. Sumi continued, "Then we should pair up. Astrid, Alexander, and Katalina you three have the least experience you should partner with someone from the old group. Katalina, I think you and Christopher should pair up. You two have diverse enough powers. Astrid pair with me. Alexander you and Hannah should be with Kade."

As Sumi finished giving the group orders a heavy blast of wind almost knocked Astrid over, but it did catch Hannah off guard. She had her fall broken by a bush though. Alexander could feel the wind rip at his legs trying to knock him over it was as if the wind was sentient. Christopher and Kade both leaned into the blast of wind easily keeping their balance.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Niah Bautista

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Location: The Playground
Skills: Psychometry

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Niah came out of the bathroom and saw on her desk something she had not placed there. It was a postcard, of San Francisco. She flipped it over to see what it said, weirdly though in her own handwriting it had a date. She had never even been to California before. It clicked after a second that the date was in the past. Far enough in the past that she hadn't even been born yet. She frowned. This was weird. How had it gotten into her room? How had she written a date, that appeared its age, before she had even been born?

Niah removed her glove and touched the postcard hoping for a clue. It was disorienting. She could see herself writing on the postcard, a newspaper nearby had the same date. And even though she couldn't make out any other faces she knew that the clothes all made sense for 1984. She was shaking a bit as the vision ended. The question that stuck in her mind the most was how had the postcard gotten into her room. The cameras would have shown something, right?

Hoping to see something on the cameras Niah went into technology, holding the postcard. "Hey Maria, do you know how to look back on the cameras and see who has been in and out of my room in the last hour or so?"