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[Fatima's life dictates that she has to carefully manage and regulate her appearance. It's a bit of a neurosis, really. She's had to dedicate much of the last few years to proving that she's every bit as capable and mature as a bunch of vampires who have seen more than a few centuries. The mortal girl is not going to sit at the kiddie table, thank you very much. Which means not looking like a kiddie.

She wears a lot of make up. Like, a lot. It's well done and attractive, certainly. But noticeably an inch thick. Her hair is pulled back in a braid today, draping over her left shoulder. But what really completes the "I'm not a child" look is the attitude. It's her carefully schooled expression, just the right amount of jaded blase, as if to say "I've seen too much to ever be wide-eyed again."

It's her first network post. She figures first impressions matter. Although this is not how she imagined greeting the network.]

Hey, Fatima Merali here.

[She's got a thick, West Coast accent. She even says her name in a disgustingly Americanized way.]

Los Angeles, 2009, for any of you keeping track of that kind of thing.

Listen. Has anyone seen or heard from Ray Palmer lately? It's like he just vanished.

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Who's "they?"

Someone in charge of the kidnappy funtimes?

The municipality. They keep a roster.

How does one get access to it?

All you have to do is go to the municipal building and ask.

They make it that easy?

I'm a new-comer, and they hired me into city-planning. I'm constantly checking city records, and meet regularly with the city council.

They're not exactly keeping information or access under lock and key.

Edited 2017-04-16 22:54 (UTC)

This whole kidnapping just keeps getting weirder and weirder

Maybe because we weren't kidnapped.

What would you call it?

Recruitment.

My friend Roy thinks we're here for breeding stock

Is that your opinion too?

No. I don't. I think your friend's read too many Heavy-Metal magazines.

We were salvaged. Everyone here wanted to be somewhere else. The portal took us up on that. If we don't like it, we can work our way back.

Who doesn't want to be somewhere else at some point in their life, though?

I mean, it's a wonder we aren't overrun with emo teenagers right now, if that's the criteria

I doubt the portal can distinguish, but I'm no an expert, and I haven't gotten around to reading the books on it. There's a whole section on portal physics in the library.

I don't know what an emo is.