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Arrival in Luceti

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One moment Jane is sitting at the kitchen table sipping her coffee and leafing through her notebook, and the next she's standing in the middle of a forest clearing. Instead of her flannel pajamas she is clad in a simple white dress and her feet are bare. Her notebook, the summary of her life's work, is nowhere to be seen. At her feet, though, is a notebook-looking thing with her name on the front. She picks it up and opens it, then sits down where she is to read.

Later, still in the woods but feeling more acclimated to where she is and the new wings on her back, she decides to give the communications function a try. She writes a short message that reads

"Hello, my name is Jane Foster, and I've just arrived. I am in the forest and I can't tell which direction to go to get out. Could someone help me out? Thanks!"

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[Kurt saw the message in the journal. He doesn't consider that Jane won't remember him, or that she might be surprised by his true form. He's too excited that his friend is back. So he immediately starts teleporting around to random places around and near the village until he can find her. Every time he teleports, he appears in a cloud of smoke that smells like brimstone, accompanied by a 'bamf'ing sound.]

[Jane waited patiently for someone to reply to her message. As she sat listening to the birds and watching the sun come up, she heard an odd noise. She looked up from her journal and scanned the trees but she saw nothing out of the ordinary.

She heard the noise again, from somewhere behind her. She whirled around and again saw no one, but she did smell something resembling sulfur.]

Who's there? Who's doing that?

[Kurt hears her voice - it's the clearest sign he could get of where she is. And soon he pops up out of the bushes, grinning.]

It's me, Kurt! [He waves excitedly, still not realizing that she wouldn't remember her previous stay.]

Jane's eyes grow wide and her jaw drops open at the sight of the boy in front of her. Kurt, he'd said his name was. He was unlike any person she'd ever seen before, except for maybe in a movie. Even as strange as he looked, she found him oddly beautiful. Rays of sunshine began cutting through the trees, illuminating him from behind like some kind of strange blue angel. She was immediately curious as to how he had come to be so unique. She had enough tact, though, not to just start blurting out questions.

"Wow, thanks for getting here so fast." She held out her hand. "I'm Jane. It's nice to meet you, Kurt."

It only hit him when she spoke. And he was immediately grateful that Jane wasn't among the many who would feel fear or revulsion at his true form. His smile lingered, even if he was sad to realize all the memories that were lost.

"Um... nice to meet you, too! I guess you could say I know a shortcut..." He says that meekly as he looks towards her extended hand. And he reaches out with his own furry three-fingered hand, hoping she'll still be down with this version of the handshake.

Jane wasn't the type to be afraid or feel intimidated, not even by the Allfather himself. She found that which she didn't already know or understand fascinating. That definitely included Kurt. She shook his outstretched hand, and though it felt odd it was not in a bad way.

"So is there an advantage to only having three fingers?" she asked, already distracted by Kurt. All thought about the fact that she was in a strange place and wearing nothing but a white dress were pushed to the back of her mind.

"For one, Pringles cans are easier to navigate," it's the best he can come up with off the top of his head. It's just so refreshingly nice to be accepted by her. She had accepted him the last time, too. So it also helped him to believe that even if she didn't remember him, in some ways she could still be the same friend he knew.

He went through the handshake nicely and firmly before pulling his hand back meekly. "On the downside? Counting by fives is harder to keep track of!"

Jane snickered at his joke. She liked him already, and thought that if all of Luceti were filled with people like him, she might not mind being there so much.

"I bet it is. But I bet you can count in threes better than anyone around." Jane loved her field of work, but Kurt made her wish, just for a moment, that she'd gone into genetics instead. If the equipment were around to study his DNA she'd be on it in a second.

"Again, thanks for coming. Which way do we go now?"

He chuckled at her comment, and then he glanced in the general direction of the village. "It's your choice. We can take the long way, or the poof-y way."

That garnered raised eyebrows.

"Poof-y way? What is that, exactly?" The only thing she could picture was them teasing out their hair and then walking into the village, which didn't seem like a good idea to her, but if that was how he rolled...

"Well if it makes it any clearer... You could say it's kind of teleport-y?"

Jane's eyes grew wide.

"No way." It was as if everything she'd been trying to quantify had coalesced into a person.

"Okay, we're definitely doing the poof-y way, then."

He chuckles. "Alright, if you're sure..." He holds out his arm. "Just grab a hold. Any hold at all. And brace yourself for the ride of a lifetime!"

Jane's excitement mixed with a slight tinge of fear, but it was not enough to stop her from taking his hand and holding on tightly.

"What does it feel like?"

"It's just like taking a step-"

As he talks, he sticks one foot out, it happens. There's a bamfing noise, and they're surrounded by the smoke and the brimstone-y smell, which is already clearing away to reveal the village plaza as he steps the foot down on the ground.

"-into a very different place."

Jane hears that familiar noise, then the forest blinks out and the village appears. She doesn't even feel like she moved, yet there they are in completely different surroundings. It's like magic, and she immediately wants to do it again.

"That is amazing!" She reluctantly lets go of Kurt's hand and takes a few steps, looking around at their new location. She turns around, getting a view from every angle, then turns back to him.

"If I could do that I would be so fat. I'd never walk anywhere!"

He smirks proudly as he looks around. They've most likely arrived in the plaza.

"That is the greatest temptation of my powers." Kurt does manage to stay trim despite his great number of unhealthy eating habits on top of that. "Of course, when you're one of the X-Men, they find ways to make sure we sweat through training."

"One of the what?" Jane had the feeling she was going to be hearing a lot of things she wasn't familiar with in the coming days. The prospect was daunting but she loved it.

"And which way do I go to get some clothes?"

"The, uh, X-Men. I'll tell you all about it if you want." He smirks as he glances towards her. "What, white's not your color? You know, I could poof you right over to where you can find some real clothes."

"I'd love to hear about it, once I get those clothes. I'm more of a denim and plaid kinda person. This dress definitely is not gonna cut it." Not to mention she needed shoes. She really missed her red rain boots.

Her eyes light up at the mention of poofing again. She nods enthusiastically and reaches out her hand. "I can find time to explore the village later. Lets go right to the clothes."

"Alright, then. Our next stop is fashionville!" He takes her hand once more with a smirk, and another bamf later they're in the clothing store. "Now take a good look. Some of your clothes might even be here. ...I know, this place is too weird for words."

Just like the first time, the teleportation only takes a fraction of a second. She is truck with serious envy over his ability.

"That's just mean. Why take my clothes and then put them in here for free?" She starts looking around, and yelps with excitement when shen finds her boots.

"My red Wellingtons!"

"This place moves in mysterious, and often annoying ways," he admits smugly as she goes about her business. And then he follows her, amused, as he heads towards her boots. "Such a heartwarming reunion," he adds dryly.

He has no idea what she and those boots have gone through. She was wearing them when she and Erik and Thor saved the world. Saved all the worlds.

Right next to the boots were her usual 'uniform' - dark jeans, t-shirt with a cute emblem on it, and a button-down flannel shirt. She could not have been happier to see it all. She hugged it all to her chest.

"If you knew what me and these clothes have done together... they're not just fabric."

As it is, Kurt is just thinking that girls are weird. He shrugs as he smirks towards her. "If you say so, Wonder Woman." That's the best snark he can come up with on the fly.

Then he gets a little sheepish and points off towards a door while glancing in a little direction. "The, uh... changing room's that way, by the way."

Arrival in Luceti

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