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[Action - 305 Miller Street]

[Something is very...off when she wakes up. It has to do with the fact that she's in a soft bed, and with the fact that the Leapfrog's rattle even allowed her to sleep in the first place- or the fact that for the first time in a long time, she's feeling slightly chilly.

Family members might catch the tall blonde (in place of the smaller drone girl) peering out the doorway of her room, but not before she makes a quick phone call-- ]

[Phone]

Nico, Chase, Victor, Molly, Klara-- Julie?

Please be there.

[Action - Grocer]

[Karolina's in the fruit section, scowling at the tiny selection, ocasionally picking up an object to examine. She frowns at it. This stuff couldn't be all-organic.]

Seriously? [Find out what's wrong?]

[Action - Mayfield - Night]

[It's nighttime. And Karolina Dean is a normal girl, sitting huddled up on a bench on the side of the road, shivering slightly. She's human. For the first time ever, she's 100% completely human. Normal.

...Almost normal. Close enough to normal. This place has tricked her into thinking, just for a moment, that it can all be okay. Mayfield has swept her off her feet, taken her away from her friends, and given her a gift she thought she'd never have. She's just another girl.

She lets out another breath, a puff of air in the chilly night.]

I could get used to this.

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[Much like Karolina Xavin had woken up in a bed. Soft, warm, nothing like the rooms on the Majesdanian ship. She wakes up with confusion, and then moves into alertness, sliding easily out of bed to inspect her new surroundings with caution.

It's then she notices the biggest change. Her own body, not Karolina's shape, her hands, her skin, her hair. The body she created herself, for her beloved, but the body she made. Panic flares in her- What if this is all a Majesdanian trick, no they can't know they have her and not Karolina, Karolina must be safe - and it only grows when she finds her body not responding to her brain's commands to change, to shift.

For once, her body is stuck, and the very idea is terrifying.

Panic swells even as Xavin tries to crush it, leaving the room of this knew place to hurry down the stairs. If this is a trick she has to get out, find a way to Earth, to Karolina and protect her. In her haste the phone is knocked over and then Karolina speaks and Xavin starts. Her beloved was here, or was calling. Body still she pauses, before slowly picking up the telephone, carefully holding it to her ear]

...Karolina?

[Her heart skips one beat. Then two. Xavin doesn't get a response at first, just the silence as Karolina forgets how to breathe, then the swift breath as she remembers once more. That voice. That voice that she hasn't heard in such a long time- that haunted her dreams for weeks, that lingered in the back of her mind and kept her from eating or sleeping in days of it's absence. The sweetest voice, that she had given up on hearing ever again.

It can't be true. It's too good to be true. But Karolina's not strong, not against this- and she breaks easy. She broke the moment she heard that whisper.

She lets herself believe it to be true when she knows it can't be true.

Xavin!

Karolina. [This time the name is said with certainty, Xavin allowing hope to bloom in her chest, allowing herself to crack. It's been so hard, Karolina's face staring back at her with every reflective surface, her voice ringing in her ears everytime she spoke. There was no way to forget, no chance that she could even allow that. She must be Karolina, to keep her safe.

The nights were so much colder without her beloved. Space was colder, and emptier, in a way it had never been before.

Her grip tightening on the phone, Xavin leans against the wall, her mind racing for all the things she wants to say, all the words her tongue holds back. She's scared, what if too much time has passed, what if Karolina is angry with her, what if she's forgotten her. In the end she swallows, picking the safest words she can think of.]

...How are you. Are you safe?

[Oh, Xavin. Karolina feels like she could cry with relief, hearing the other speak her name. This was too sweet. Karolina listened, hanging onto every word, before the realization and the guilt hit her. Shit. Julie. Xavin. Xavin! Oh God. She swallowed hard, again, forcing herself to respond]

Of course I'm -- Xavin is that really you? [The question spills out before she can stop it. She doesn't want to, but there's a little bit of disbelief in her voice]

[It doesn't matter how much she heard her own mouth speak in Karolina's voice, the real thing shocks Xavin to her core, makes her want to break. But she can't she won't. She is a soldier, she was a prince. She will be strong, whatever it takes and for however long it takes. Skrulls do not allow themselves to break so easily]

I... yes. It is me. I... [The smallest crack in her voice shows] Karolina I cannot shift. I'm stuck.

[She heard that crack in Xavin's voice, and centers in on it. Something's wrong, and Karolina's persistent to fix it.]

You're...stuck? [Mind racing. She had been so relieved to hear Xavin that she hadn't even thought of the shape shifting part of her.] You can't-- [Karolina tensed, then realized just what it was that she had felt missing] -- I'm stuck too. [and finally, the question she didn't really want an answer to] W-what are you stuck as?

[She wishes she wouldn't. She wishes they could ignore the crack, the show of weakness. Mentally Xavin scorns herself, years of training still in effect to do that. And then she stiffens her resolve, picks her words carefully and speaks slowly to avoid that crack again.]

Human. Female. [And now she'll ignore the voice telling her how lucky it's not a male form, the ache that had it been it would have caused more tension. And then the ache that always comes when she recognises Karolina's will be happy with this. She'll ignore it all.] You... you are stuck in your human form then?

[Karolina isn't near as careful with hiding away her feelings. She even lets out a tiny little sigh of relief when Xavin responds. She'll cover it up if pressed, but for now it's smoother to skip over the bumpy parts.]

Right. Oh my god. [She takes a sharp breath] Don't you ever do that to me again!

...Leave? [God she hopes it's to do with leaving and not the body. The topic of leaving is a safer one. ] I had to beloved. I could not let you do it, I couldn't rusk you being harmed. And if I had told you properly you would not have allowed it.

Yes, leave! I - of course I wouldn't have allowed it! You can't just do things like that Xavin, do you have any idea how worried I was?! How lonely it was when you left?

[As guilty as she does feel for leaving, Xavin's own temper flares, voice rising as she speaks] So I was supposed to let you leave with them? We don't know what they would have done to you Karolina, but it would likely be a mockery of a trial and the death. Majesdanians are not the nicest race in the universe, as nice as you yourself are! I was not going to let you walk to you death while I lived.

Don't you understand? Without you I have nothing. My home is gone, my people would likely scorn me. Your home is on Earth and you have so much more. I wasn't going to let you sacrifice that. As lonely as you may have been, I would have been lonelier. I love you, and even if I die, I'll die knowing you're safe.

[Her piece said, Xavin falls into silence utterly aware how much emotion she just showed.

[Karolina's temper rises as well- but she quickly drops into silence. Her arguments to this fight are long exhausted. She's played it over and over in her head, things she would say to Xavin if she could, and now, faced with the chance, she's suddenly short on words.]

Did they hurt you? [Its a stupid question, she asks it anyway.]

[Karolina's silence is both welcome and a worry. On one hand, perhaps she sees things through Xavin's eyes. On the other it is more likely she's just letting it go to keep the peace when she should really speak her mind. In her mind, Xavin pushes away the nerves. Focus on the questions.]

No. [And if they have it's information Xavin will never share with Karolina.]

[Really, she is just bottling it all up- but she doesn't release that to Xavin now. No, it'll spill out at another, much more inconvenient time. Right now Karolina's just really glad to hear Xavin's voice.]

I didn't know if I'd ever hear from you again- I've missed you, so much.

I've missed you too, beloved. [A soft sigh escapes her as Xavin lets herself sink down against the wall, the floor cool through the layer of her nightdress. Tilting her head up she stares at the walls, knowing she should get up, find more suitable clothes, and find Karolina, find where they are.

But she tired and worn. Sitting is nice]

...I do not think I like space anymore. It is different from when I was with you.

You don't? That's fine, we don't have to go back. We can stay on Earth, together. I like the sound of that better, to be honest.

[Deep down Xavin knows she should agree, say that Earth is the best. But Earth is not her true home, and even if her true home is destroyed... well... she's trying.

Softly she hums, eyes half closed and savouring the sound of Karolina's voice]

... Do you know where we are? It looks like Earth but... different.

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