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[ Medusa's long been used to addressing large crowds of people. How to keep her face perfectly unreadable is a matter of habit, now, even as her hair swirls and shifts over her shoulders and around her face. She doesn't want to be doing this, but there's no point in beating around the bush with subtlety either. She'll have to make her requests. ]

Fellow guests of the Moira, my name is Medusa. I am Queen of the Inhumans and New Attilan. I speak to you today to ask you for your help. It has been some time since I last found myself on this ship, but I do not know how long. It seems some of those I considered friends previously have departed. If any of those I knew still remain, if anyone can tell me how many months I have lost, and what I have missed, I would be glad to hear from you now.

[ This part's a little trickier. ]

In addition, if there are any who have heard of the Inhumans, or those we consider our allies— The Fantastic Four, the Avengers, the X-Men— I would like to speak with you. To speak with any who have even heard of them. It does not matter if we knew each other before. I imagine that many of you may not have heard of of the Inhumans, even though we know of you. This is... [ Only a moment's hesitation, her hair billowing out in thought— and then she refocuses, and continues. ] A complicated situation to explain. So I leave it to you to decide whether or not to come forward. If you do not, know that I will not seek you out. I have no desire to impose meaning and familiarity onto strangers. I will respect your privacy as I would want my own to be respected.

[ And this one, this one final long shot in the dark: ]

If you are an Inhuman, of any tribe or city— know that you can always come to me for aid. The time for petty and superficial differences has passed. We are one people, and as one people I will defend you and stand for you as I would any citizen of mine.

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I'm acquainted with the Avengers, but I'm afraid I've never heard of the other groups. [She's at a bit of a disadvantage though. The only reason she even knows what she does is because of what Steve has told her. So either Steve knew nothing of these other groups either, or he had just left them out when he caught her up on his adventures.]

I'm probably not the best to ask, though. I'm a bit behind the rest from my-- our home. [She may be jumping the gun by saying "our" home, but they have the Avengers in common. Even if their worlds aren't exact, they'd be closer than others.]

I wonder what the explanation could be for that. To me, the Fantastic Four are the most well-known and well-respected group from Earth in the universe, and yet no one has heard of them at all. Whereas for many years, the Avengers were contained primarily to Earth, and sometimes regarded as menaces.

[ That's Medusa musing, though. The explanation wouldn't really matter to her. She's not one of those people who finds scientific mysteries compelling in and of itself. She deals with the here and now. ]

I hope you will not be offended if I say that, to me, it does not matter to me how behind you may feel you are. Any answer is worth hearing. Everyone is behind to my perspective, and I had expected that from the start. I will listen to anything you have to say.

[ Because every piece of knowledge she has about these people who are and are not her friends makes it easier for her to know how to relate to them, how to remake her allies, allies. ]

My knowledge is mostly second-hand. When I say I'm behind, I mean it quite literally. It's been roughly seventy years, from the time I last remember, to the years of the Avengers you'll find here. [Even if most of them were from different points in time, those points only varied within a few years. She was definitely an outlier among them.]

That being said, I'm curious if you're truly ahead of them, or from another version of our home entirely. [It's a possibility, given this place. There was a second Bucky, after all.] What year was it that you came from, exactly?

It is the year 2015.

[ Though technically, Peggy may not be half so displaced as she thinks, depending on when the Fantastic Four is currently considered to have formed. But details, details. ]

So in that respect, I think I am not ahead as such. Except in that I have been queen for fifteen years, and the Avengers had formed even a few years before that. Whereas the Avengers I have met here seem...new to the concept of being Avengers.

[ And also lead much slower lives. Only one alien invasion?? Come on guys. ]

[She certainly feels a whole lot better. She's not the only one completely out of place with the Avengers anymore.]

You may share the same year as them, but in terms of events, they're drastically behind. [She has no explanation as to why, other than those pesky alternate universes.]

But yes, you're correct. As far as I'm aware, the Avengers have only been a team a few years. Barely any time at all, compared to what you know.

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