The used towelette she tosses, getting a new one for the abdominal wound. She forgot to take off her gloves, so the cleaning solution, as well as some of the blood, is starting to soak into the tips of the fabric. Of course, with all the blood, this whole outfit was pretty much ruined anyway.

"It was different when I first got here. The city was without law, and much more dangerous, especially for us." She shrugs. "As for Vulcanus, they want power. And there's nobody in this world more powerful than us. The regular citizens actually tried coming to the city and starting a war with us, a year or two back, and we crushed them."

This would gets a larger bandage, and once more Ruka is really glad for just how thin these things are -- they're practically weightless in her bag, unlike some of the other things she carries around.

"The natives who had the powers had ones based on the imPorts that were kidnapped before. I'm not sure how they did it, but it must have been something genetic. Anyway, most of that team died, and Vulcanus seemed to leave us alone for a while, but last February, they kidnapped another group of us, shot them into space, and had them replaced with shape-shifting aliens called Skrulls. You've probably heard people talk about them."