i lie awake and watch it all | open

[accretions]

Who: Jane Foster (accretions)
What: Settling in, getting a job.
When: late October - early November?
Where: Sunset Falls, Excelsior
Content Warnings: will update as needed!

1. i'll be the calm, i will be quiet [sunset falls | closed to thor]

[Honestly, even though she asked about Thor pretty much as soon as she figured out how to, Jane puts off seeing him for a few days. It feels weird to be alive again and now that she's stopped to think about it, she's not sure if it won't just be awful for him. He did watch her die, after all. That much she remembers, even if everything else is a little unclear.

Heimdall greeted her in Valhalla, but then she was falling out of the sky. She doesn't have an explanation for how it happened, which is more than a little frustrating, but it doesn't feel like the sort of thing that she can ask about in public. Saying "hey, so what are the mechanics of coming back to life" is just going to make people think she's crazy. It feels crazy, if Jane's being honest with herself, so it took her a few days to mentally sort herself out. Plus there was the off chance that Thor had moved on—it's only been a few minutes for her, but coming back the first time felt like that too. Five years went by between the Snap and her coming back, but it was like no time passed at all and it could be the same here. At least that time she understood why and how she'd come back. This time... well. She feels a lot more unmoored than she really wants to let on.

In the end, though, she makes her way to the house where someone said he lived. He hasn't come to find her either, so Jane assumes that nobody told him. Which is good, she thinks, because this is one of those things she'd like to do on her own terms. Taking a deep breath, Jane presses the doorbell and waits.]

2. it feels like thousand eyes [sunset falls | open]

[Once that's done and over with, Jane turns her attention toward the second most important matter: money. The obvious tack to take is, of course, science-related things but honestly? It's been a while since she actually did anything but science. Being Mighty Thor was kind of appealing for that reason alone. She loves being Doctor Jane Foster, but it feels like this is a chance to get out of her comfort zone a little bit. Whether or not that's where she ends up is another matter, but still.

That's how she ends up in the Sunset Falls Public Library. Libraries are good hubs of a community, in Jane's experience, and it's sort of right there. Fortunately or unfortunately for her, depending on the point of view, she ends up in the library on a Thursday and the locals assume she's there for the occult group's meeting. Which means she is currently being stared at blankly by the group's leader as she tries to explain herself.]

Oh, no. I just wanted to see the library. I don't really, uh. That is to say I'm not a practitioner? Of the arts?

[Help. If she keeps talking she is absolutely going to offend one of these people.]

3. i am the storm so wait [excelsior | open]

[Yeah, okay. She should probably stick to science. Fortunately for her, everyone is quite upfront about the fact that if she wants to do science? She should be in Excelsior. Even after being cautioned about the fact that they aren't exactly friendly or welcoming to metahumans, Jane figures that it's not unlike being a woman in STEM in the first place: people don't want you there and you just have to stare them down until they accept you aren't going anywhere.

Besides, apparently they're working on space travel and if there's anything Jane feels extremely confident about it's her knowledge of the movement of objects through space. Wormholes are her personal area of expertise, but she's dabbled in other forms space travel. NASA tried to recruit her constantly.

The trick is just... learning how to navigate the city itself.]

Sorry to bother you, but I was directed here because I'm an astrophysicist back home. I'm looking for... Ursula Baz?

[She has no idea if this is a well-known name or not, but Atomight gave it to her as someone who might have use of her skills.]

4. i can't control withering wonders [wildcard]

[if these don't work for you, feel free to get in touch so we can work something else out! i'll also match format, so reply however you want and feel free to hit me with whatever if you have an idea. jane's technically still living at the diadem and using her powers to get around, so location doesn't matter much. otherwise hit me up on plurk (flyingthesky) or discord (flyingthesky#0332) to hash something out!]

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[accretions]

Maybe some other time? I came to research something, actually.

[This is probably not the place for her, given that it definitely has a very "Loki" vibe, but well. Thor is here and that's worth something, isn't it? Even if every seems to be some kind of magic-type. So she shouldn't piss these people off too badly.

Also she really does need to research something. Which is why she then turns to Mayuko and sighs.]

Sorry, um. Do you... know where I could find a tome on resurrections?

[Does Jane want to be reading about that? No. But it keeps happening to her and if she researches it, then she might be able to understand why. To figure out the mechanics of it.]

[welcome_summer]

Resurrections... It wouldn't surprise me if we had a how-to manual squirreled away in the stacks. Sunset Falls being attached to the Underworld, evidently....

[At least Mayuko is human again to be able to sigh in mild frustration. She is still shooing non-resident ghosts out of her house. She waves Jane after her to the reference desk.]

Or do you need materials ABOUT resurrection?

[accretions]

[The Underworld? Like Hell? Hell is real? Jane blinks uselessly for a few seconds before answering. This place is... so weird. She understands why Loki seems to have settled down here.]

About, please. I just came back and was hoping to learn about the process.

[welcome_summer]

[Mayuko gets Jane's confusion. Five years ago, she would have boggled at the idea of someone being revived. Reincarnation, sure, maybe. But not coming back as the same person.]

Hmm... well, it's not common. I'm not sure whether there are unaligned individuals with that power, and if the guilds keep that level of healer on staff, I haven't heard about it yet. As for the Confluences, they vary from month to month; I don't know if there's been any studies organized yet. But we can always check!

[Mayuko directs Jane to the reference desk, as she wakes the catalog computer up.]