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[For a soldier Xavin can be quite graceful. Her heritage helped with that, her body always able to shift, and her training had made her quite skilled in always making her movements fluid when required. Being a Prince had also helped, teaching her to dance, to move with grace when it's required.

But her arrival in Luceti is anything but graceful. She tumbles through the branches, white dress whipping around her legs, blonde hair tangling in twigs. For some strange reason her back aches, a dull pain that her natural healing abilities should be fixing but aren't. When she finally stops there are scratches against pale, long legs though they soon begin to heal and fade. For anyone familiar with her this is the face of Karolina Dean, daughter of actors, and secretly an alien. But not a Skrull. Not Xavin, not her human face.

And as the journal records, Xavin slowly stands, and looks around. This is a world mostly unfamiliar to her. Not a Majesdanian military base. Not a world under Skrull control. If anything it looks Earth, like some of the places Karolina's shown her the photos off. But then the important fact leaks through and she raises her wrists, which had previously been bound with metal and now free.

She looks around with suspicion, searching for the rainbow glow of a Majesdanian. And as she does her focus begins the slip, sunlight blonde hair darkening and shortening, pale skin turning to a deep mocha brown and the skinniest shifting as well built but lean muscles take their place. She becomes who the body she once chose, and when her quick exploration shows that she is seemingly alone she lets herself stay that way. It had been so long since she had been able to take it after all.

Her exploration brings her upon the book, and picking it up she begins to study it, her first words slip out, Xavin voicing her thoughts to herself] Curious. And strange.

And not Majesdanian. Did the fools crash? I thought they were better pilots then that, but it would not be the first time they've made such a simple mistake...

[She wanders off, her words becoming more guttural, and not understandable. Not unless one speaks Skrullos.] I must be on my guard either way. It could easily be some sort of foul trap.

((ooc; for reference, Xavin appears like this for part of the video until she shifts into this form.))

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[Teddy's about to speak up, because the girl he sees in the video is familiar. He's kind of hoping against all hope here; most of the heroes he knows and who should know him have never recognized him, save for Grimm. But just as he opens his mouth to say Karolina -

Her shape changes, and -

...

the hell is that

No honestly, the new form only looks slightly familiar, like he'd seen it maybe once for a minute in his life. But it doesn't take long to realize who exactly it is, and he's so surprised that he doesn't even start hoping for the best, just blurts out:]

Xavin? [It has to be him - her. Who else would shift into Karolina, the girl he knows doesn't have those kind of shapeshifting abilities?]

[Xavin is still carefully flicking through the book, trying to work out it's purpose, trying to see if there's anything in that that can help her. It's not a technology she familiar with, not really, Skrulls are further ahead then humans and even normal books are considered odd to her at times.

And when she hears her name she looks up, spins around, trying to work out where it came from. It sounded so close, but her hearing is good. And now one is there. But she can recognise the voice, finally calling back, while still studying the forest]

Dorrek?

[... Yep, it's definitely Xavin. Only other Skrulls would call him that, and -

Oi, she's looking away. He tilts his head up as if she'll see him if he does that, a natural reaction, and speaks again.]

Yeah - Hey, the journal, look at the journal! I'm here!

[Then there's a lot of wrong people out there then. It's his name duh.

She does look back down at the book, Skrull hearing still there despite the human shape to the ear. And oh look, a... video? of Dorrek. Well she's not stupid so]

A communication device then?

Hello Dorrek.

Hey Xavin. That thing, it's... exactly like a communication device, yeah. [He's never really talked to Xavin outside of the heat of battle, or right when she was about to leave. Trying to do so over the journal is... slightly awkward.]

Hold on - wait... [Here he was about to go ask Billy to do his GPW thing. But with his powers gone...] Actually, could you hold up the journal? I might know where you are.

Encased in a more primitive appearance. [studying it a little more carefully. And man what is awkward, everyone is slight degrees of awkward around her that makes this feel totally normal.]

Yes? [Head tilts before she finally nods, lifting the book a little higher, turning it so he gets a good look at her surroundings] Is this suitable?

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[There's a small pause as Teddy studies the surroundings; he's wandered around Luceti enough to almost know where every place is, even if the forest is harder to identify than everything else.

But he thinks it's a little familiar. Actually remembering where it is might be a problem, but hopefully he'll figure it out as he goes along.]

That's good. Could you stick around there? I'll come find you. [... Eventually. Provided he's actually right. He's just about to leave when he opens up the journal again.]

Oh, also, there should be a guide somewhere in your journal. It should tell you where you are and what's going on. [You know, that way she's not just sitting there wondering what's happening while he flies around.]

[She finally brings the book back down when he speaks, watching Teddy before nodding] That is fine with me. A good plan, as I assume it would take me longer to find you.

[She moves into the shade a little] I will read it.

[She's not much for small talk, and really what more is there to say. So Xavin waits, and as she does she shifts slowly, into her human male form, noticing the lag with a frown. That is troublesome.]

Okay. Just... sit tight, yeah?

[And with that, he finally lowers the book to his side, and once he's outside, he slides off his shirt, only to shift another one around his body as he lets his Hulkling wings grow from the back. He really should've thought of this whole "shifting clothes" thing sooner.

After several minutes, Teddy reaches where he thinks Xavin might be. He slows down and flies further upward, a little unsure if this is right and wondering if he needs to turn around, yet he calls to make sure.]

Xavin? Xavin, you here?

I do not how I could sit in a manner described as 'tight' but I shall seat myself all the same.

[And she does, the only change being to shift, female form becoming male. And frown for a bit when she notices the change wasn't as quick as it should be. That may be a problem. Though this does mean there's a guy sitting in the forest in a dress. Huh.

Xavin may not have through this through. Oh well. She'll just stay like this till Teddy arrives so he can recognise her.

The sooner she gets her suit back, the one that shifts with her, the better.

When she hears Teddy she perks up, standing and calling back, still a guy, still in a dress.]

I am here, Dorrek.

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