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[Video] | Week 65: Monday morning, early

[The view on the screen is not actually Thor's face, but rather mountainous trees and a canyon a little ways below, lit by the just-rising sun. Thor's voice, however, is loud and clear, if a bit shouty-- obviously, he's hovering, Mjolnir whirling above his head.]

Did anyone else see the meteor shower beyond the city, last night? I have found where it should have touched ground, or where some of it should have touched ground, and I see nothing, no damage... except these.

[The view takes a dive, as Thor swoops lower to hold his communicator over the ravine, flying a slow pass over it to record the cluster of separated pods, many of which appear to be empty.]

Was anyone aware of this collection of pods?

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I know this is the first that I, at least, have ever heard of them.

[She looks long and hard into the video, frowning. Trying to make something like sense out of all of this.]

Do you think they are what could have fallen from the sky instead?

[Thor takes a little bit to reply, because he takes the time to land at the bottom of the rocky crevice. The view he shows now is himself, with rocky and uneven walls behind him.]

They appear to be pods from the ship, only that are outside the ship. I think. It is possible, perhaps, that the ship is under the earth here, and that is how they have power.

[He makes his way carefully, and with the sound of much shifting dirt and stone, closer to the pods in question.]

Pods? Like the ones that most of us awoke in?

[She's more alarmed now, and wary.]

Thor...be careful. There's no telling what might be down there.

Aye, exactly that, that appears to be what they are.

[He gets to the pod cluster and peers into one.]

This one is empty... the one beside it is not!

It's not? Who - or what - is in it, then?

I cannot see clearly inside.

[Thor turns the camera on the pod, but it's dirty and scratched, and fairly opaque anyway, so there's not much to see beyond "it's a person" and "it's not a skeleton".]

It appears to be someone like the rest of you, however, merely asleep?

[Mulan peers hard, as if she actually believed she could somehow make it out any better than Thor can. Despite not even being there in person.]

I don't know...I wonder.

[She thinks of Belle, vanished and not seemingly returned to the ship. She doesn't know if she dares to hope.]

Maybe this is what becomes of those they refer to as 'the lost'.

That they are in different pods, elsewhere?

[Thor hasn't had much interaction with this "lost" thing, so it's a new theory to him.]

I suppose it is possible. How many are these lost ones? More than two?

I'm not sure, to be honest.

There are only two that appear to have occupants. So unless there are more still buried, I would assume that if there are more than two of these lost ones, then this is not their location.

Maybe. Perhaps you are right.

[So much for that vague hope, then.]

But if that's not who these people are, then...who are they?

They could be like us, people from other realms, simply separate from the ship somehow. Or the ship could be far larger than we even guessed, and it is underneath here, as well.

Stark is coming to have a look. He may be able to learn more.

Maybe. I hope so.

There are so many mysteries and uncertainties here. Things might be safer, if only we could have a better idea what's going on. Why these things keep happening.

Perhaps Salvation herself will have an answer, as well, at least for this.

[It's the only option he can come up with, anyway. The ship does seem to know more than the rest of them.]

She ought to know what has become of part of her own... self.

[If she is the AI of the ship, does that mean the ship is her body? He's not sure of his feelings on that.]

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