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"We're a mutie down."

"How long?"

"No idea. You know they use the Shi'ar tech to hide it, if they want to. We only caught it by accident, when someone noticed there was one less normal signature than there should be."

"They hijacked a signal? And 'baseline'. It wouldn't do for it to be implied that the muties aren't normal."

"...Yes, sir. And yes, sir."

"We know which one?"

"We're running the footage and physical checks. You know none of them are talking. They never do."

"Frost might. I'll speak with her."

"Send a Sentinel out after the fugitive?"

"We don't know there is one, yet. Might just have been another murder. And...even if there is, things are all fucked now. Goddamn Captain America's a fugitive too."

"Pardon, sir, but what does that mean?"

"It means that all the rules are changed. Let the mutie run, if he has. It might not matter in a week or so."

"You think they'll all have registered by then?"

"I think we might all be dead by then."