[ she doesn't know if any of this is the right thing, or the wrong thing, for what they're doing. what she does know is that it helps, that even this easy conversation helps. the more he asks, or answers, or just talks to her, the more karen feels like she can focus on them instead of the space around them.
if she let herself slip far enough into the image of it, they could be just about anywhere. they could be outside in the rain, even, chatting as they waited for the bus. even as the water rises around their legs, she can almost pretend.
Baltimore he says, and she smiles, glad for something familiar. but then he continues, says things like out in space and martian navy and cap and karen's head tilts a little, confusion taking over. ]
Sorry- space? As in like, aliens? [ everyone knows about the chitauri, about new york, about those big heroes and super powers and how the world has changed since. karen's life has been focused on her world, on hells kitchen and new york and the people who get forgotten in the face of that.
but... something about amos makes her think it's not that. that there's something else a little different going on here. ]
Ah- New York. [ it's not that she's sheepish, but saying new york in the face of in space, it's just. a little different. ] Hell's Kitchen, but. Yeah.
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if she let herself slip far enough into the image of it, they could be just about anywhere. they could be outside in the rain, even, chatting as they waited for the bus. even as the water rises around their legs, she can almost pretend.
Baltimore he says, and she smiles, glad for something familiar. but then he continues, says things like out in space and martian navy and cap and karen's head tilts a little, confusion taking over. ]
Sorry- space? As in like, aliens? [ everyone knows about the chitauri, about new york, about those big heroes and super powers and how the world has changed since. karen's life has been focused on her world, on hells kitchen and new york and the people who get forgotten in the face of that.
but... something about amos makes her think it's not that. that there's something else a little different going on here. ]
Ah- New York. [ it's not that she's sheepish, but saying new york in the face of in space, it's just. a little different. ] Hell's Kitchen, but. Yeah.