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When the video comes alive, it seems fairly clear that it's some kind of mistake. The man holding the device is only half in frame, his expression somewhere between serious and distressed, though he says nothing. The collar of his black leather-looking top is visible at the bottom of the screen, and anyone watching can hear the sound of him walking through water - still in the bay, then, as the dim lighting shadowing his face confirms.

To say that the situation was confusing for Black Bolt would be a vast understatement. He had been sent to Earth, fine, but this didn't seem to be the same place, and waking up inside of some kind of pod with new belongings and information on his chest had been worrying to say the least. He didn't like the idea that he had been unconscious, that someone had apparently been with him while he was. Add to that the fact that he couldn't find an obvious way to communicate, and he was having a pretty bad day.

After a few moments of figuring it out, he clicked the video off. He didn't know who was here, anyway. Perhaps keeping a low profile until he found out where he was, and where his family was, would be better.

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He was surprised to see someone else in this place who signed, even though they weren't signs he was familiar with. He followed them, though, paying attention to the signs and the words that follow them. He wondered, briefly, whether her reasons for not speaking were similar to his, or if she was merely unable - and he wondered about the mechanism that allowed her to communicate that way, as the voice clearly wasn't coming from her mouth.

He was mostly unable to articulate those questions, but he did text back, "I don't know the signs here," he admitted, tapping out the letters carefully. He still wasn't used to this, putting his thoughts into written - or typed - word. "Is there somewhere I can learn?"

[ Her reason for being mute is basically unknown, however, it tends to throw off her opponents at their inability to read her.

Nodding, Neo gives him the answer:

"At the university. They have a course on it."

A boring course, at that, but he can find out by himself. ]

He nodded, typing, "Thank you. I appreciate your help. My name is Black Bolt." It was fairly clear that no one here knew who he was, so he thought it was prudent to make it known.

[ "Call me Neo.

How'd you get a name like that?"

It's pretty cool. There's gotta be a backstory to it. ]

"My parents gave it to me," he typed, his expression slightly quizzical. It didn't really occur to him that his name might be strange here.

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