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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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[ Interesting list of names. Matt knows of the Avengers, but not the rest -- and especially not the Inhumans; that sounds vaguely ominous, and he's fairly sure he's never heard of New Attilan anywhere on the map. But if she's allies with the Avengers... ]

I know of the Avengers, but not the rest on your list. [ He pauses. ] Where's this New Attilan?

[ She doesn't recognize the voice. After all, she never truly met Daredevil face to face, and her husband's decree made it possible to acknowledge the man's contributions in keeping her son alive and safe. But it doesn't mean that Medusa has forgotten her cousins' reports. ]

New Attilan currently sits in the Hudson River. [ She represses any negative feelings she may feel about that. Life is what it is. Medusa has to deal with the world as it she finds it, not as she wishes it to be. ] In order to increase accessibility to our scattered brethren. In time it will perhaps be relocated.

[ The Hudson River? Matt can't quite keep the sympathetic grimace off his face -- the stench of the place, the things in it is not a place anyone should live in, inhuman (whatever that means as a race) or not.

Under normal circumstances (read: if the person on the other end isn't a hot woman designed to be very bad for Matt's health and general well-being), the next question would've been this: And you thought to increase accessibility it should be in the Hudson?

But the woman is Babetastic, and therefore the chosen response is: ]

I don't know about that. Real estate is a cut-throat market these days. [ But more seriously: ] Are there many of you living there right now?

[ It's far more accessible than the Himilayas. Or the Blue Area of the Moon. Or the heart of the Kree Empire. ]

That question is more complicated than you could kmagine. [ in particular because she's yet to find anyone from her own universe. They all betray themselves as other by the questions they ask. ] It is not by choice that I have established my kingdom there. And though we are more than we ever have been, circumstance have left us...scattered. We are thousands in the city, but there are hundreds of thousands I must find. If not more.