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Edel grinned, but it looked as though she wanted to roll her eyes. "I'll have to get on that then. After I finish devoting my energy to everyone else." she mumbled. Then she blinked. "Coast City? Oh, no. This is New York City."


Rosie inched off the couch, staring curiously at the new girl.

Edel sighed. "Of course, I still have the spell going anyway. Just tou-...wait." she said, then blinked. "As in...Green Lantern Hal Jordan?" she asked. Oh...she'd have to go about this carefully then.

Rosie inched closer to the woman, staring curiously still.

Edel just looked at her and blinked. "Oh. Of course. He's here, actually. Though I must warn you...he might not know who you are." she replied.

Edel hesitated. "Are you at all aware of the universal merging? If you seen your 'father' just this morning, then I'm afraid we have a lot to discuss. The Hal Jordan that is here has been here for...months." she replied. "And...he has no children. He is not even married."

Edel frowned. Well, so much for trying to take this gently. "Your version of Jordan might be...but the one here is not. You haven't been in this world very long I take it. There is a lot that will need to be explained..." she said with a small sigh, turning away from her. "But...if you want to see the Lantern, follow me." she said as she walked out of the room.

"Quite a few universes have been merged together. Time has been dissrupted, people have been tossed into this world from different universes and points in time..." Edel replied as she waked down the hall, then up the stairs. "Your father could be someone entirely different from this man. Or...you could just be from a later point in time. It's not uncommon in this world."


Lagging behind them was a very curious little girl.

"It's a bit of a long story." Edel replied. "A god-like being tossed various worlds and universes together into one. Some people have been here since this world "began". Others have been showing up at random. Some people have universal doubles....others are here from past and future times."

Almost there....up the stairs and last door on the right. She'd better let her daughter know that the doll was needed.



Meanwhile, in one of the many rooms of the large, ever-expanding home, a young woman with curtaining black hair sat in front of a wall-sized doll house. She stood, stretching one arm up in the air, letting a dark-skinned Green Lantern doll "fly" away from the home, and over to another large home on the other wall. There, a Black Canary doll sat at a living room table, where she slid the Lantern in.
Suddenly she stopped playing, and looked back at the doorway with the one black eye that wasn't hidden behind hair.

"Natalie, dear. I need the Green Lantern back." Edel's voice whispered through the room.

The woman stared at the door, then down at the green and black costumed doll in front of her.

"No sweetie, the one with brown hair."

Natalie looked back up at the door. "Can I have another doll later?" she asked the air.

"Of course. I'm bringing up someone else who would like the doll very much."

The woman pouted a bit, but stood and obediently walked over to one of her other doll houses. She reached her hand into one of the living rooms, and pulled out a Green Lantern. This one with dark hair and a mask. Nope. Not this one. She tried again, and pulled out the right one this time.
Cradling it as a child would a teddy bear, she carried it into the center of the room and laid it down on the ground. Then she stood back from it and leaned against one of her wall-large doll houses.
A bright, golden light began shimmering behind the curtain of hair over her face, and soon the same light enveloped the doll on the floor. The doll grew to full height, the joints and crevices disappeared, and after a moment, the man sucked in a deep breath of air.