<div class="floatright">(http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9048/eternaln.jpg)</div><br/>"Just take it easy, Duncan.  I'll grab one of them for you and bring him here, and you can use the teleporter to get back."  Her wings once more caught the breeze, carrying her up and off into the air so that she could look around for one of the surviving Supermen.  The one she found was in pretty bad shape: an arm and a leg were missing, and he was fast unconscious, but he should still fit the criteria of what the others needed in order to interrogate a prisoner.  She gift-wrapped him in crimson bands of restraining force just in case he might try to escape, but left enough of a mutable force in the design that allies would be able to shape or remove the bands with a sharp tug if it proved necessary.  From there, it was a simple enough matter to tell the ship to teleport the prisoner up into the brig.<br/><br/>Once that was all dealt with, she stretched out her limbs, sparkles dropping off from her supple figure like beads of sweat, and got back to work.  So much of the city was still preserved upon the astral realm, an echo of its former form, with the energy from her blasts having disintegrated so much in order to convert the matter directly into energy.  She hadn't meant to do that, but it felt like her magic had just gone a little out of control, and she couldn't let up without giving the enemy a chance to regroup.  No matter: now she could put things right.<br/><br/>Sparkling, prismatic forms burst back into reality as the astral afterimages were yanked back into the material plane, sometimes rust-coated and reminiscent of the true age of the building and the things inside, sometimes brand new and as brightly polished as the day in which they were placed.  Not everything was in quite the right spot, since the drift and tides often caused a minor influx, but she trusted the inhabitants to be able to figure out which desk and computer belonged in which building.  Structure foundations allowed her to more easily determine where skyscrapers should properly be placed.<br/><br/>It would be quite an arduous process, draining and tedious, but it was something that she had to do.  After all, if she didn't, who else would?  If she'd exercised more caution, it wouldn't be necessary, anyway.