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She had found a change of clothes, and was trying to adjust to being here in this place. Her own remaining scars from when she first arrived had faded some. Could barely make out the scar on the top and side of her forehead since it ran into the hairline.

After running into that strange moving forest with Will, Kate tended to keep her bow and battles staves handy to be grabbed in a moment's notice. This morning she was outside at the Cooper household, and doing some katas. Just a way to try to have something else to focus on then the hurt of being torn away from home, and the war raging there still.

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"Hey." There's a boy that looks two or three years older wandering over, watching the katas with mild interest. "I'm not sure I've seen you around here before." She gets a bright, warm grin.

"Probably not, only been here for a few days or so now." Small smile back.

"Me too, actually. Well, here as in this ... village-thing ... I've been on this world rather a lot longer." Joe grimaces slightly. "Appeared in some very snowy mountains. I was dressed for warmer weather."

"I just appeared in a field recently, and Will helped me find this place. Only other thing that happened was running into this magic forest with different portals. Heard it moves around."

"Will! Nice guy, very colourful, first person I met here. We got along fairly well ... After we stopped arguing about whether Sherwood would eat somebody."

Kate nodded at that, thinking of how they comforted each other, "He is very nice."

But the next had her mildly puzzled, "...Why would Sherwood eat someone? Or any forest for that matter? Unless radiation or toxic waste, or some kind of spell was involved?"

"I don't know! It was a hundred years ago, I wasn't alive then! She probably just got miffed at people cutting her down." Beat. "And technically it wasn't somebody so much as the entire city."

"So maybe a forest spirit or something I guess?"

"... No. It's just what forests do. It's like how the sea attacks the coast, or drags down ships."

"Well, yes, but usually that takes hundreds of years to do so. Or a bad storm to drag ships down."

"Naaah. 'S a curse, innit?"

Kate blinked at that, "What curse?"

"The forest curses people who displeases it. So does the sea. Mountains do it, too, a lot."

"Maybe in your world?" She never heard of such a thing, even where she came from.

"Yeah, from what I've gathered, things work a little different in Will's world."

"And different from mine probably... Unless you have superheroes there?"

"Superheroes? Are regular heroes just not good enough now?" Grinning.

Kate remarked, "It's more that most of them are called that because they have powers. But there are exceptions to that rule." Rueful smile at the last comment.

"Ah, you wouldn't find that very often in my world. People who have powers usually only have them because they're cursed. The people with the real powers - Like the ones who were able to curse things - died out long ago. Or else they all live in the far Southern regions, or the East."

Kate remarked, "Well, some people in my world might think their powers are a curse. Especially among some of the mutants because of the prejudice and persecution they've faced."

"Mutants?" Raised eyebrow.

"People born with powers usually."

"Ah, I see. I don't think there's anything like that in my world."

"Different worlds as I said," Kate agreed.

"I'm Joe, by the way. Joe Rackham."

I'm Kate Bishop, nice to meet you."

"So, what is it you do that requires you to use weapons? You're too female to be a soldier, too young to be a mercenary, I suspect."

Kate gave him a look, "You couldn't guess from that? And women can and will fight. And there's countries that conscript children half our ages into war. Want to try again?"

"But you're not from any of those countries. I can tell." Joe taps his chin thoughtfully. "Superhero?"

She glanced down after looking around, "Yes. I was. I am. It's really confusing back there right now."

"Want to talk about it?"

"I don't know. There's a war going on. Superheros have to register with the government, or be arrested or just outlawed."

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