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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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[ooc: Sorry to be a correcter but this explains how languages work in Luceti.]

This place is about as far from normal as you can get. As for me? I'm from Bayville. It's in America on Earth. I don't know how helpful that is, though; there seems to be a few Earths represented around here.

[This is what I get to writing tags too early in the morn. Language should have been accent]

It is not the worse place I have seen. And yes, I know of America, though I am not familiar with this Bayville. I have found myself based primarily in Los Angeles, though I have previously visited New York. [A small pause] Alternate Earths... I wonder how likely it is that they are just many similar planets out there that resemble Earth. It isn't as difficult as Earth's scientists seem to think it is, but it still does seem unlikely.

[What she wouldn't give for some star charts]

[Ahhh apologies, that makes sense.]

It's not the biggest city on the map, but it is in New York. As unlikely as it is, it seems to be true here. Me, I'm still waiting for someone from the Planet of the Apes Earth to show up. So if you're from L.A., does that make you some big-time celebrity?

[No probs. Like I said, half asleep tags]

There are many parts to New York I have been told, so it is not surprising I do not know it. [And the reference to the movie flies over her head, though it does make her pause before addressing the question she can] No. It is merely where my betrothed calls home, so I will make my home there.

[Betrothed, huh? Kurt knows that feel of being separated from a loved one here.]

Well... I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like life's given you a detour into Sunny Luceti.

[It's only made harder when you haven't been with them even before here]

I am aware. It is not... too horrid a detour, considering what I was having to already do. [Gear shift in that way only she knows how] It is always sunny here?

Um... only during the daytime? [Kind of an odd question.] The sun works more or less like it does on Earth.

Ah, that's good then. Though I have already found myself adjusting out of that routine. Though I suppose I will not be too difficult to alter again. [Look, you visit places as a Skrull Prince. And learn about places that your elders... visited. ~~conquered.~~ Worlds can be strange]

What, you have some weird sleeping schedule? [This place is good for that - or would be if it weren't for Logan's early morning Danger Room sims.]

It is difficult to keep one typical to Earth when one is in space. No true natural source of light after all. [Plus when you spent most of your days in a cell like structure, time became even harder to judge]

So... Is there a nice way of asking if that means you're an alien?

The question needs to be neither nice or cruel. It is just a question.

And yes, I am.

I guess so. I'm just not used to dealing with... you know. An actual person from another world. And I'm guessing you come in peace.

Not all of us like to announce ourselves. Sometimes we merely chose to settle on Earth to make a home with our beloved when our true homes are lost to us. And yes, I do. I have seen enough war and do not wish to see any more.

Right. Yeah, stupid questions on my end. But man, I always thought aliens living among us was just something the sci-fi shows liked to push. I didn't think it could be really real... [But this excites him rather than terrifies.]

My name's Kurt, by the way.

If genetic mutations are possible why would you consider aliens an improbability? [Wait, different worlds] Unless your world does not contain people with genetic mutations. Then I suppose aliens would seem highly unlikely.

Xavin.

No, no, you were right the first time. We've got all kinds of mutations here. But I guess the differences is... mutations, they're a part of everyday life. [Something he himself always has to live with.] But aliens? No one ever sees them. Or if they look like an alien, they could just be a mutant.

Nice to meet you anyway, Xavin.

[Well that's one thing to keep note of] You'd be surprised how many aliens look humanoid, or can hold a humanoid form. You may simply just not be recognising us for what we are.

It has been informative meeting you Kurt.

You have a point there. [He goes on jokingly.] And my dentist did give me that weird feeling of just not being human...

Glad to hear - that is a good thing, right? So I'll... see you around?

[There's a small smile, the faintest hint of amusement in her voice now. Yes she can get some jokes] Perhaps he was not then. There are many of us who aren't these days.

It is. And yes I think we shall.

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