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I know that there is a lot unknown and unexplained. There are a lot of questions that we'd like the answers to. I'd rather focus on what is known.

[ Who wouldn't? But she's information collecting. Maybe get enough questions together and take them all to a god. Maybe ]

I'd like to know what your experience was like arriving here. From the amount of people that have mentioned feeling sick after arriving it's clear that something has changed. Is there anything specific that you remember? Has anyone reported similar experiences before?

[ The sickness. Drowning. Seeing the sight of burning cities... people. She's felt it all, remembers it. And now she's hearing things - cries, feeling emotion that she knows she isn't feeling herself. What is it? ]

Has anything out of the ordinary happened recently? Anything that could cause the change?

[ Out of the ordinary for war, anyway. She's been going over the information but there is a lot there. Any filling in would definitely be appreciated ]

It doesn't matter what it is, anything could be important.

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[Well, you can only see from about the chest up so you never know what's going on below the waist...]

People are forgetting things about their lives either here or back home. Even I've been.. kind of in and out.

[Some days he remembers New York and other days he can't remember a single thing about where he lived or what his life there was like.]

[ Yeah you keep that video chest up. She doesn't want to know what's going on down there ]

Apparently it's not a small thing. When did the memory issues start?

[A party.

And here she goes again with those cop questions.]

Uhh.. I'm thinking towards the beginning of the month? But I'm not quite sure...

Now I have a question for you. What government agency do you work for?

I don't.

[ You're a few days too late there. Thanks for playing ]

Not everyone seems to be affected though. There's a group that we've lost contact with - on last report they weren't experiencing sickness or memory trouble.

Okay.

[Keep playing it cagey, Maria. He knows you work for somebody and he's not going to give up until she tells him.]

Right... so it's people in the city only. That happens sometimes.

[ So suspicious. She's not even lying! ]

Why? [ She's also not 100% expecting an answer here ] If there's something different outside of the city, stopping the effects, it might be replicable here.

[ Maybe. Ideal world. Who knows. Added to the 'ask the gods' list ]

Do any effects ever repeat? Memories, visions. Anything.

Are you talking about for me personally? I've been going through a cycle of forgetting and remembering what New York was like. Which.. really sucks.

It would. But I don't only mean now, but in the past. Not that asking you if you've lost your memories before could be a reliable question.

[ Would he remember that? Likely not, unless his memories had been returned and he remembered the whole thing ]

No, not that I can recall. Not here and not back home.

[Castle wonders if she's writing this all down, making little charts and graphs somewhere. He likes you, Maria, even if you won't tell him what government agency you work for.]

[ Maybe. Want to check? She's in her room ]

That's good. It's one good thing out of it all. From what I've heard everything else that has happened has been stopped or undone, this should if nothing has changed.

[He might.]

Let's hope so. Life here can be very unpredictable. The other month we had a random flood and all had to cram into the castle.

[ Sorry. Blocked the door ]

And before that ice trapped the newcomers. War is unpredictable.

[Castle raised an eyebrow.]

This like any war you've ever experienced?

[ Debating how much to say he might get a brief glimpse of that debate (only because it's a brief debate) ]

Yes and no. But no two are alike. History tells us that much.

[His eyes widen and he nods.]

Personally I've never been part of a war where people use magic against each other. Ok, I've never been part of any war but.. you know what I mean.

It's not a common occurrence. I've only seen it the once.

[ Other curiosities before that - the Hulk, reports back from the 40's. Then Thor opened up a new world, and more seemed to come ]

It isn't common knowledge.

'The once'?

[You have his full attention now.]

I was under the assumption that we were from the same time and place. Or, similar at least.

[ Yeah she's going to... up and private this now. Enjoy your one shot at questions. If you ask the right ones you might get answers? ]

So did the rest of the world before it happened. It changes things.

Oh?

[He pauses, wanting her to elaborate. When she doesn't he realizes that he needs to get answers.]

Aliens?

[ There's a small nod ]

We stopped it. [ The Avengers did, and thankfully stopped New York from being nuked ] It changed everything - beliefs, the realisation that there is more there. There was as much wonder as there was fear.

You stopped aliens? Ok who do you work for then, FBI? CIA? Homeland Security? I guess an alien invasion could fall under Homeland Security.

[ So missing the point ]

We've been through that. [ Also not the right questions ] I was linking that to this war.

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