Trying her best to listen unobtrusively, she can't hold back a gasp of alarm at the news of what Thanos and the Black Order are doing. She has lived through a genocide -- just because it is only "half" a genocide does not make it any better. A loss of that many lives is staggering.
She's still reeling from the news when Thor speaks to her directly. She looks up at him, wide-eyed, then stares at Loki when he speaks to her, too. No, they hadn't forgotten that you are standing right there, Adia, That electric current of fear that had rattled her nerves when she first started speaking to Loki is back again. Gods competing for her attention -- that never ends well. That gets mortals turned into a calf, or a tree, or --
Taking a quick breath, she forces her thoughts away from such things. Thor has shown her nothing but kindness and camaraderie. And Loki...? Well, for a god of mischief he's more or less behaving himself. They're okay. She's okay.
"I was there," she says finally, when she trusts herself to speak. "When he attacked. He was a criminal from Jim Kirk's world; he had used genetic manipulation to create a small group of super-strong, super-intelligent soldiers. He came here seeking revenge on Jim... he had a magical artifact. A ring, I think? I don't know where he got it, but it was able to disable the anti-violence field. The ring also gave him the ability to cause a huge amount of destruction, mostly in the Industrial District..."
She glances in that direction briefly. The skyline of warehouses and construction sites doesn't look damaged, but a closer examination reveals gaps in the architecture, where buildings once stood but were cleared away.
"A-anyway. I was in the Plaza, treating the injured. People with the ability to fight held off Khan and his soldiers for a little while until they came up with a plan. Steve --"
She stops herself short. The whole reason Steve is who he is now is because of what happened that day. Is she allowed to share that? Does Thor know of Steve's former life? Does it matter if it's not the same Steve from his world?
"...Steve was there, he tricked Khan with a hologram of Jim into coming out into the open. The artifact stopped working, briefly, so people were able to take him out... I, um, I wasn't there for that... you should probably talk to Jim -- the one without the beard, about that. I know he's working on a way to prevent the AV field from failing again, along with a mage named Naugus."
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She's still reeling from the news when Thor speaks to her directly. She looks up at him, wide-eyed, then stares at Loki when he speaks to her, too. No, they hadn't forgotten that you are standing right there, Adia, That electric current of fear that had rattled her nerves when she first started speaking to Loki is back again. Gods competing for her attention -- that never ends well. That gets mortals turned into a calf, or a tree, or --
Taking a quick breath, she forces her thoughts away from such things. Thor has shown her nothing but kindness and camaraderie. And Loki...? Well, for a god of mischief he's more or less behaving himself. They're okay. She's okay.
"I was there," she says finally, when she trusts herself to speak. "When he attacked. He was a criminal from Jim Kirk's world; he had used genetic manipulation to create a small group of super-strong, super-intelligent soldiers. He came here seeking revenge on Jim... he had a magical artifact. A ring, I think? I don't know where he got it, but it was able to disable the anti-violence field. The ring also gave him the ability to cause a huge amount of destruction, mostly in the Industrial District..."
She glances in that direction briefly. The skyline of warehouses and construction sites doesn't look damaged, but a closer examination reveals gaps in the architecture, where buildings once stood but were cleared away.
"A-anyway. I was in the Plaza, treating the injured. People with the ability to fight held off Khan and his soldiers for a little while until they came up with a plan. Steve --"
She stops herself short. The whole reason Steve is who he is now is because of what happened that day. Is she allowed to share that? Does Thor know of Steve's former life? Does it matter if it's not the same Steve from his world?
"...Steve was there, he tricked Khan with a hologram of Jim into coming out into the open. The artifact stopped working, briefly, so people were able to take him out... I, um, I wasn't there for that... you should probably talk to Jim -- the one without the beard, about that. I know he's working on a way to prevent the AV field from failing again, along with a mage named Naugus."