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Mutants & Masterminds: Harmony City - To the Day


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University of Florida, Harmony City

Student Medical Center

August 2nd, 2008

1:42pm

The mental care ward had several interview rooms, which basically empty rooms in neutral colors with one-way mirrors. They were often gussied up with various accouterments by psyche researchers, but rarely used for the original design specified utility of interviewing potentially dangerous mental health patients while covertly supervised by security staff.

Until now.

The observation room was a bit crowded. Three doctors and two armed guards. Another pair of armed guards were outside the entrance door to the interview chamber, right down the hall. The room hadn't been in use, so it was austere...a plain chair and a small table. In the chair was the girl.

She looked maddeningly ordinary. A college age young woman in a green coat and teal sweater and blue jeans. Glasses. Dirty blonde hair with red colored tips like a dye job growing out. Cute. She was just sitting there unmoving, hands at her side, not on the table. At first she'd looked around, taking the featureless room in. Now she just stared at the door.

The five occupants of the observation room watched as that door opened now, and Dr. Jensen walked in. Genevieve Jensen, sometimes called 'Doctor JenJen' by her inner circle, was a lead professor in the psyche department and a prolific researcher, especially in cases of autism. She paused for a moment just inside, then went to sit in the chair opposite the table from the girl.

"Hello," Jensen said in a pleasant, neutral tone. "I'm sorry to keep you waiting."

The girl tilted her head as she studied JenJen, then gave a tiny shadow of a nod. Acknowledgement, forgiveness...who knew?

"Do you mind if I ask a few questions?" the doctor asked.

A pause, then what might charitably be called a tiny shaking of her head. Or a small muscle spasm in the neck.

"We show that you appeared in the center of the new wing of the High Energy Physics Lab here on campus, apparently out of nowhere." Gen gave every visual cue of reading off a sheet of paper in the manilla folder she had opened before her, then glanced up at the girl. "Do you remember that?"

A nod.

"Campus security reported some minor damage from flying objects, and a frightened intern. Do you remember that?"

Another nod.

Dr. Jensen closed the folder and asked, never looking away, "Would you explain what happened? Who you are, where you came from?"

The girl hadn't spoken yet. She'd responded to simple questions, but not verbally. There was no sign of an injury that would explain it...or any injury at all in fact.

"Accident," she said now...a quiet voice, with the word spoken slowly and deliberately.

"What was an accident?" the doctor asked. "You being here? The damage?"

"Damage," came the girl's reply.

Dr Jensen was visibly working out a new tack when everything changed.

The girl leaned forward a bit and said, "I am looking for tran...train... Transcendents. The ones who break rules."

(more to come)

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