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[accidentalqueen]

[ 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.

Comments

[morethan084]

Hang on.

[Daisy switched over to video instead and understood immediately what she meant.]

Oh.

So you can make it grow?

[accidentalqueen]

I can make it do whatever I want it to do. Among other properties.

[ It's quite a versatile and destructive weapon. Unlike her husband's power, which is almost always fatal. Where Black Bolt is raw power, Medusa is power in subtle applications. ]

I imagine it goes without saying that among Inhumans, this power is unique, as all abilities are.

[morethan084]

...What do you mean?

[She wants examples, basically. The thought of having Rapunzel hair certainly had some appeal to it, but also had to be a bitch to wash.]

Well, bonus? At least neither of us have spikes all over our body. I knew someone like that.

[accidentalqueen]

You do not know?

[ Medusa ignores the second statement. Spikes are nothing compared to Eldrac the Door. ]

All terrigenesis is unique. It is part of the Inhuman destiny, that each is different from the other.

[morethan084]

No. No I got that.

I don't understand what you meant by 'among other properties'.

[accidentalqueen]

Surely you don't think I will tell you all my secrets within five minutes.

[ With mild amusement. ]

Especially when you are so silent on your own account.

[morethan084]

Fair enough.

[And also true.]

I can make things shake.

[That's not the only thing she can do with her power, she's just not telling her that.]

[accidentalqueen]

With your mind? Or something more sophisticated than minor telekinesis?

[morethan084]

Neither. I just feel it. All of it. All the time. I don't know how to describe it, I just have to move it and it does.

[accidentalqueen]

[ This was always Gorgon's duty, training the new Inhumans, adjusting them to Terrigenesis. Never Medusa's. Yet one more reason to sorely miss her cousin, even if New Attilan needs him more than she does in this moment. ]

Try to elaborate. You make things shake. Is it small, the thing you sense that you make move?

[ But she's going to try. She said she would help. This is helping, right? ]

[morethan084]

[The thing is, Daisy has had enough practice with her power to not slip up.]

I feel everything, it's like have all these bees inside my body buzzing around. Took me a while to get used to it.

[accidentalqueen]

So, then, you feel the individual molecules, and you make them move.

[ Medusa is just guessing; it's hard to sometimes figure out these less-than-visible gifts, when dealing with Inhumans not raised within the culture of Terrigenesis. ]

If so, you are similar to my husband.