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To: {Summers}
From: {Pietro}
Subject: news

Not actually very much news, but here it is. Just as it would have been without the nagging, I may note.

If you've been paying attention at all, you've probably seen reports that they've located the wreckage and are recovering bodies. I haven't been able to find out whose bodies yet, but it's entirely possible I just haven't been throwing enough bribe money around or dropping the right names in the right ears. The probe footage, on the other hand . . . well, it was odd. There's a crater, but it's perfectly circular and only slightly dished--and it's so smooth it very nearly looks polished. If the island had been atomized, the matter would still be there, but there's nothing but bedrock, suggesting that the matter went somewhere else. How lucky for us that it's such a small universe, and human-livable conditions persist in so much of it.

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[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose I could convince you to come home. It sounds like you've done about as much as you can over there.

-S

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[x-ccelerate.livejournal.com]

Don't be stupid. I haven't found anything of significance yet.

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[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

You've been there for a week. You've as much as said you've hit a dead end. If Attilan was displaced somewhere else, precisely what do you think you're going to be able to find, persuading and bribing the investigators on-site? They clearly don't know what's happened either.

I understand the urge to be persistent, but unless you have some actual reason to believe that there's more to be found on-site, you're wasting time that could be better spent elsewhere. The people who can tell us about what kind of mutant or occult power could transport an island elsewhere are here in New York.

-S

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[x-ccelerate.livejournal.com]

I can't find the what here, you're right. I may be able to run down a few leads on the who. I'm not finished out here yet.