Ororo Munroe/Storm

Subject Facts

Full Name: Ororo Munroe
Codename: Storm
Age: Mid-thirties
Gender: Female
Archetype: Superhero
Aliases: Wind Rider, 'Ro, Goddess
Marital Status: Single
Affiliation: X-Men (currently), X-Force, Morlocks, Avengers (formerly)

Subject Attributes

Superhuman Abilities:
ALPHA-LEVEL MUTANT
Storm is a mutant, born with the ability to control the weather, a gift more scientifically known as atmokinesis.

WEATHER MANIPULATION
Ororo Munroe possesses the psionic ability to control all forms of weather, manipulating it to her every whim. She has shown herself able to control both Earthly and extraterrestrial ecosystems and atmospheres. She can modify the temperature of her environment, control all forms of precipitation, humidity and moisture (at a molecular level), generate and channel lightning and other electromagnetic atmospheric phenomena and has demonstrated an excellent control over atmospheric pressure. She can incite all forms of meteorological tempests; most notably thunderstorms, blizzards and hurricanes. She can raise mists from seemingly nothing, while also being able to dissipate all aforementioned weather in order to clear the skies.

Her precise control over the atmosphere allows her to create special weather effects. She can create precipitation at higher or lower altitudes than normal, make whirlwinds travel pointing lengthwise in any direction, channel ambient electromagnetism through her body to generate electric blasts, flash freeze objects and people, coalesce atmospheric pollutants into acid rain or toxic fog, and, along with her natural ability of flight, summon wind currents strong enough to support her weight to elevate herself (or others) to fly at high altitudes and speeds. Her control is so great that she can even manipulate the air in a person's lungs, rapidly filling or emptying them should need call for it. She can also control the pressure inside the human inner ear, an ability she uses to cause intense pain. She can also bend light using moisture in the air and her manipulation of mist and fog to appear partially transparent, and in the right conditions, nearly invisible.

Storm has also demonstrated the ability to control natural forces that include both Earthly and cosmic storms, solar wind, ocean currents, and electromagnetic energies. She has demonstrated the ability to separate water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen via electrolysis, allowing her to breathe underwater. While in outer space, she is able to affect and manipulate the interstellar and intergalactic mediums. Storm can alter her visual perceptions so as to see the universe in terms of energy patterns, detecting the flow of kinetic, thermal and electromagnetic energy behind weather phenomena and can bend this energy to her will.

Storm has been shown to be sensitive to the dynamics of the natural world, and her psionic control over weather patterns are intertwined with her emotions. While this can, at times, be something of a weakness, it has also blessed her with an almost psychic bond between herself and the primal life force of Earth’s biosphere. This bond with the Earth gives Storm spiritual and material sustenance with an almost empathic sense towards living things – including an apparent ability to sense and detect life forces, while also being attuned to natural phenomena including earthquakes, storms and blizzards.

Her powers also offer her an increased resistance to extreme temperatures, withstanding burning heats and freezing colds in equal measure, her body able to adjust to changes in atmospheric pressure. Ororo can breathe while travelling at high speeds and in high altitudes, and she seems naturally protected from air friction while flying. With a blink, she can view the physical world around her as energy, offering her the ability to see even with the world about her eclipsed in almost complete darkness.

MYSTIC POTENTIAL
Storm’s ancestry supports the use of magic and witchcraft. Many of her ancestors were sorceresses and priestesses in various African tribes; her maternal powers linked to the Rain Queens of Balobedu, the region from which her ancestor Ayesha hails. Ororo’s ancestor, Ashake, was a worshipper of the Egyptian Goddess Ma’at – the very mother of Agamotto, a being who favours Ororo’s bloodline. While her magical potential remains unexpanded, it has been hinted at.


Standard Abilities:
AVIATOR
Storm is an excellent pilot, trained to fly a number of the X-Men’s jets over the years the team has been active. Similarly, she seems to possess a natural awareness of ‘in-flight’ movement, aiding both her own flight and her piloting of jets.

TACTICIAN
Ororo is a natural born leader and has honed her leadership skills over the years she has been active on the X-Men’s roster. Having lead a number of teams, she rivals the likes of Cyclops and Wolverine in terms of tactical awareness and is a highly accomplished strategist and field commander.

DIPLOMAT AND TEACHER
Storm has been a resident teacher at Xavier’s for a number of years and has spent much of her later years learning how to instruct young mutants, while similarly being tutored herself. As such, she is a fantastic teacher and seems to have a natural understanding of how to unlock the potential hidden away in others. She has also acted diplomat for the country of Wakanda, and is well versed in politics. Her station as Queen of Wakanda offers her diplomatic immunity.

THIEF
Ororo is an extraordinary thief, able to pick any number of locks and pockets thanks to her time spent operating as a thief in Cairo. She has honed her skills over the years and can slip past advanced security systems, is a talented escape artist and has developed the dexterity of both her mouth and feet so they possess a similar dexterity to her hands.

COMBAT TRAINING
Storm is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant with years of close quarter combat experience. She was trained initially by Achmed El Gibar and the Black Panther in her youth, and then later by the likes of Wolverine and Cyclops. Thus, her range of techniques is broad and she can more than hold her own in a fight, capable of using prowess and cunning in the place of brute strength. Also, Ororo is proficient with a number of weapons; most notably an expert shot with various fire arms. She has been trained to use both a bo staff and a sword by the warriors of Wakanda.

MULTILINGUAL
Storm can speak English, Arabic, Swahili, Wakandan and Yoruba and has a working knowledge of Russian.

Paraphernalia:
X-MEN UNIFORM
As with all X-Men, Storm dons a costume when partaking in active field work, made of resilient material and equipped with a communicator, linking her to her allies.

LOCKPICKS
A memory from times long past, Storm carries lockpicks about her person.

Subject Weaknesses:
MORTAL
Despite her incredible mutant powers, Ororo is very mortal. She is as resilient as the average human to bullet and stab wounds. Poisons and noxious gasses effect her as they would any other living being without supernatural or mutant enhancement.

CLAUSTROPHOBIA
Having been trapped under rubble for days in Cairo while her mother lay dying, Storm’s claustrophobia was once so severe, it rendered her completely helpless when she was confined in small spaces. However, through years of building her reserves of will, she has more or less conquered her fear, though tight spaces still make her uncomfortable. Flashbacks to her time trapped still haunt her occasionally, especially when fully enclosed or entrapped.

PHYSICAL LIMITATION
Storm’s powers are limited by her force of will and strength of her body. Extended use of her gifts can cause intense pain and severe exhaustion, and she has, at times, collapsed or suffered extreme injury through attempting to test the limits of her power.

LIMITED BY NATURE
Storm respects the natural boundaries of the planet’s biosphere and manipulates weather patterns as they naturally exists. She could, for example, end a drought in one area by creating torrential rains, but that would necessitate robbing all available moisture from surrounding areas – potentially causing drought there instead. Thus, she must be incredibly careful as to what she attempts and constantly thinks about the wider effects of her powers. Similarly, she cannot create conditions that can’t naturally exist upon the planet she is on – her gifts manipulate possible weather patterns, rather than create new.

EMOTIONAL CONTROL
Storm’s ability to manipulate the weather in her immediate vicinity is affected by her emotions; hence, if she does not maintain control, a fit of rage might induce a destructive storm and despair enough rain to warrant a flash flood. As a result, Storm has, in the past, kept a very tight rein on all extreme emotions, sometimes leaving her a little seeming distant or detached.

Subject History

Storm is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic. Her mother, N'Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya. She married the American photojournalist David Munroe and moved with him to Manhattan, where Ororo was born. When she was but six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt. They lived a happy life until, five years later, a bomb dropped during the Suez Crisis destroyed their home. Ororo's parents were killed in the blast and the resulting destruction, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's body. This traumatizing effect left Ororo with the severe claustrophobia that would remain a life-long affliction.

Homeless and orphaned with naught but her clothing and her mother’s ancestral ruby, Ororo was found by a street gang who took her in, which in turn caused her to come under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar. She became his prize pupil, trained how to pick locks, pick pockets and fight for survival through any means necessary. It was only years later, feeling a strong urge to go south, that she would leave el-Gibar.

Accepting a ride from a stranger, her progress was halted when the man who’d offered her the ride attempted to rape her. Taking his life in order to protect herself, she vowed that she would never kill again. She continued her travels without aid and journeyed alone across the Sahara Desert, before she finally reached her ancestors' homeland, the Serengeti Plain, a part of Kenya. By this time her mutant power to control the weather had emerged, and she first used them en route to the Serengeti to aid a young man by the name of T’Challa, the Prince of Wakanda. Rescuing from men who had captured him, Ororo and T’Challa began a young romance, and though it ended quickly, it was passionate while it lasted. Following this, Ororo was taken in by an elderly woman named Ainet who taught her responsibility – especially in the use of her new found gifts – and she used them to help the local tribes, who worshipped her as a goddess.

Storm first met the X-Men while fighting Deluge, a fellow mutant who managed to wrest control of the weather from her. Hoping to destroy humanity, Ororo rose against him, managed to disperse the storm he’d created and worked alongside the X-Men to defeat him. Her work alongside her fellow mutants caught the eye of one Charles Xavier. It was a few years later when he would finally contact her, explaining that her powers came from mutant genes and that she wasn’t a goddess as previously thought, before inviting her to join the team she had formerly aided. Ororo agreed to join the X-Men, taking the name ‘Storm’ and returned to live in America. The new X-Men's first mission tasks them with rescuing the original X-Men from the living island of Krakoa. Acclimatizing to life in America, Ororo was naive in the ways of the modern world and needed a little time to adjust. She quickly made friends among the X-Men, regarding them as a family, with an especially strong bond of friendship with Jean Grey, who helped Ororo to buy a new wardrobe. It was during one of their shopping tours that Jean learned of Storm’s severe claustrophobia when the two women were chasing a thief into a subway station.

Storm would go on to serve the X-Men for many years, and was exposed to a wide number of life changing events. She travelled through space, met beings from other dimensions, and helped protect the Shi’ar Empire. Ororo faught alongside the X-Men as they clashed with Emma Frost and the Hellfire Club and formed a close bond with a young mutant known as Kitty Pryde, acting as an advisor and mentor, offering her first codename. It was through her loyalty and perseverance that she was asked to lead the team following the departure of former leader Cyclops after the apparent death of his wife and Storm’s closest friend, Jean Grey. Storm was initially unsure about her new role, but with the support of her team mates she soon became a capable leader. When Cyclops eventually returned to the team, Storm found herself doubting her leadership abilities once more after a mission she led went wrong. However, she soon reasserted herself, proving on a number of occasions she was worthy of the mantle.

Over the following years, she encountered the likes of a future team mate, Rogue, (though both fought on different sides at the time) and Reverend Stryker’s Purifiers, a group she would come to face time and again in later life. She battled mutant terrorist Magneto, saving Xavier from his clutches, fought vampires and earned control of an entire subterranean race – the Morlocks – besting their leader Callistio in combat. In doing so, she was able to cease their hostility toward humans and earned the respect of many. When the X-Men later travelled to Japan to attend the wedding of their team member Wolverine, Storm first met the ninja named Yukio. A friend of Wolverine's, Yukio was the most care free spirit that Ororo had ever met and the two became fast friends. Yukio influenced a major rebellious change in Storm's attitude towards life, and she took to wearing leather and shaved her hair into a mohawk – a style she would adopt on numerous occasions.

Storm later had her powers accidentally neutralized by a gun invented by the mutant machinesmith named Forge, who took it upon himself to nurse Storm back to health. During her convalescence, Storm and Forge fell in love but their relationship was cut short after Storm learned Forge had created the device that stripped her of her powers. Ororo subsequently quit the X-Men and returned to Africa where she finally came to terms with losing her mutant ability. Returning to Cairo, Storm joined Xavier's newest team of young mutants, the New Mutants, in an adventure into the past during which Storm met one of her ancestors who helped the heroes return to their own time. Storm and the New Mutants fought and defeated the nefarious Shadow King and were subsequently captured by the Asgardian trickster god Loki who sought to use Storm in one of his schemes to discredit his half-brother, the thunder god Thor, by restoring her abilities and brainwashing her into believing she was a goddess. With the aid of the X-Men, Storm was able to reject Loki's gifts, thus thwarting his plan. She would then return to the X-Men and challenge Cyclops for leadership of the team once more - even powerless she won, and Scott left the X-Men.

Showing her cunning, Storm would go on to mastermind a union between the X-Men, Magneto and the Hellfire Club in order to protect themselves against the Marauders. The alliance was to be short-lived, however, after Storm decided that in order to safeguard their friends and families from their many enemies, the X-Men must fake their deaths and become an underground proactive strike-force, seeking to exterminate mutant threats. She would go on to seek aid from Forge in the return of her powers, but initially received help from his mentor, Naze. Naze had been, however, corrupted by the Adversary, and when Storm managed to track Forge down, the pair were trapped in an alternate dimension.

Storm and Forge spent a year on an alternate Earth, during which time they made peace and admitted their love for one another. Forge used components from his cybernetic leg to fashion a new device that restored Storm's powers which she then used to energize a portal back to their own world. They rejoined the X-Men in time to defeat the Adversary, imprisoning him at the cost of their own lives. However, the Omniversal Guardian named Roma restored the X-Men to life, freeing the Adversary under the notion that there could be no order without chaos.

In meeting both the Nanny and the Orphan-Maker, Ororo was believed to be killed, but in fact had been robbed of her memories and de-aged to adolescence. Returning to her life as her thief, Storm met her fellow mutant Gambit and together were able to defeat the Shadow King, forming something of a working partnership. Upon regaining her memories, it was Storm that suggested he join the X-Men, and thus the team were to gain another member.

Months later, the eternal mutant Apocalypse made a bid for power by gathering together the Twelve, a group of mutants prophesied to usher in a golden age for their kind that counted Storm amongst their number. Apocalypse was defeated, and not long after, Storm and five of her team mates formed a splinter group of X-Men known as the X-Treme X-Men, cutting all ties with the rest of the team to search for the diaries of the blind mutant seer Destiny that mapped the future of mutants. During a mission in Australia, Storm was reunited with Gambit who sought to obtain her mother's ruby. It was revealed that the ruby was part of a set that, when empowered, could open a portal between dimensions. Several of the gems had already gone missing, and Gambit wished to ensure that Storm's ruby remained safe. At that moment, the other-dimensional warrior named Shaitan attacked, capturing Gambit and stealing the ruby. Shaitan used the gems and Gambit's mutant ability to empower them, thus opening a portal allowing the armies of his master, Khan, to pass through and invade Earth.

Storm's X-Men opposed the invaders, but she was seriously injured by Madripoor's ruling crimelord Viper and was subsequently taken prisoner by Khan himself. The warlord intended for Storm to be his queen, and commanded his physicians to heal her. Storm attempted to seduce Khan into calling off his invasion whilst her team mates fought to close the portal. Khan's other concubines grew jealous of Storm's advances and attempted to kill her. Despite her injuries, Storm prevailed and escaped, rejoining her team mates as they destroyed the portal. During her subsequent recuperation, which required her to undertake physical therapy to heal her back and legs, Storm and her team were asked back to the mansion to rejoin the core X-Men team. Storm declined, however, believing that there was still work for her team to do. During a world summit to address the increasing hostilities between humans and mutants, Storm offered her X-Men team's services to the United Nations as a global mutant police force, the X-Treme Sanctions Executive.

Storm's first mission would be a solo one as she was charged with infiltrating and exposing an underground slave trading network that forced mutants to fight in gladiator-style arenas. Soon after, Storm and her team returned to Westchester to help rebuild the mansion following an attack by Magneto and stayed on to continue their new direction. With the XSE, Ororo and her teammates opposed such threats as the Weaponeers and the extradimensional Fury, as well as aiding the Hellfire Club against an attack by rogue member Donald Pierce. Later, Ororo accompanied Havok’s X-Men team to Africa to investigate animal mutations. Alongside the Black Panther, Ororo and the X-Men opposed Genoshan scientist Doctor Paine and the Russian criminal the Red Ghost, after which Ororo opted to leave the X-Men and remain in Africa. There she would remain, even after the events of M-Day, aiming to help mutants prejudiced following the loss of their powers.

Working alongside Black Panther, she remained in Niganda, met her uncle – responsible for a number of attacks on mutant kind - and unearthed a secret village in which she met her grandmother for the first time. During this time, the pair became engaged and were married in Wakanda – Storm becoming T’challa’s Queen. After their honeymoon during which both were pulled into the spirit realm, the royal couple embarked on a world tour, meeting with global leaders before deciding to form a global alliance to oppose the newly proposed Superhuman Registration Act. Arriving in the U.S., T’Challa and Ororo sought a meeting with the President; however, Ororo was required to register as a superhuman before the meeting could proceed. Refusing, Ororo was subsequently targeted for arrest, and alongside her husband opposed Sentinels and Iron Man sent to apprehend her. After Iron Man stood down, Ororo and T’Challa opted to remain in the U.S. on a fact-finding mission prior to taking action against the Registration Act. At the conclusion of Civil War, Storm and her husband made a temporary home in the Baxter Building to fill in for Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four who had left the ‘hero’ business in order to repair what was left of their damaged relationship. When Reed and Sue returned, Ororo and T'Challa moved back to Wakanda.

T’Challa soon requested isolation in order to find himself, travelling back to America in order to defend Hell’s Kitchen. Storm took to running the country of Wakanda, though she was challenged by the Shadow King, who demanded she choose either her station as a queen or her membership to the X-Men. Using his vast psychic powers, the Shadow King attempted to manipulate Storm and destroy the life she had built for herself, but with the help of the Panther God, she resisted and defeated the adversary and insisted she could be a part of both worlds. Soon after, Black Panther returned to her and they were reunited.

Feeling more connected with her old friends following Shadow King’s attack, Storm aided the X-Men in battling the Hellfire Cult and the Sisterhood of Mutants, and aided in establishing and indeed protecting the mutant Utopia in San Francisco, fighting off various threats with the help of her former allies. In doing so, and thanks to the numerous incredible feats undertaken throughout her life, Storm was suggested as a candidate for the Avengers – an offer she gladly received and accepted. Her first mission with the team was to aid them in bringing down Norman Osborn and HAMMER, her aid fundamental to their success.

While Ororo held great respect for the Avengers, the coming of the Phoenix Force severed their allegiance, with the Avengers preparing to fight against the mutants of Utopia should such action be necessary. Storm left the team disgusted with such plans, and sided with her fellow mutants. After Namor attacked and almost destroyed Wakanda, T'Challa named the X-Men enemies of the African Kingdom. Feeling Ororo betrayed their people by siding with the X-Men, and after Storm threw down her ring after a confrontation with her husband, the High Priest of the Panther Cult had their marriage annulled. Despite their differences, Storm still aided the Avengers in freeing their teammates from the 'Phoenix Five' and in the final confrontation which saw the entity defeated. In the wake of the conflict, Storm returned to the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning, and was immediately hired as a teacher. However, the arrival of time-displaced versions of the original 5 X-Men saw Storm become the school’s headmistress, Kitty Pryde stepping down in order to mentor the new teenage recruits.

Over the next few months, Ororo began a relationship with Logan and briefly worked alongside X-Force – aiding both Puck and Psylocke in tracking down and confronting Spiral and Stryfe. Following Wolverine's death, Storm became the sole leader of the X-Men, and Ororo struggled to initially come to terms with her old friend and lover’s passing.

Her leadership of the team was tested when the X-Men, and indeed the entirety of mutantkind, found themselves pitted against the Inhumans. It was discovered the Terrigen Mists that had been released some months prior, by Inhuman king Black Bolt, was hazardous to mutants and caused them to develop a disease known as M-Pox. With the help of Doctor Strange and other sorcerers, the entirety of the Jean Grey School was moved to the realm of Limbo, protecting the mutants within in a territory that became known as X-Haven. All mutants were declared welcome in order to keep them safe from the Terrigen Mist. The M-Pox outbreak, unfortunately, re-ignited old human hatred for the mutants, some seeing M-Pox as a sign to let former hatred flourish. Storm realized that mutants couldn't simply hide, so in order to show mutants had a place in the world, Ororo frequently led the X-Men to aid the world, risking their lives outside of the X-Haven. Around this time, Black Panther requested Storm's help in fighting a revolutionary force in Wakanda, the monarch surprised when Ororo agreed. In doing so, some of their former issues were forgotten, and the chasm between them was somewhat mended.

After the X-Men discovered the Terrigen Mists were close to becoming fully assimilated into the atmosphere, rendering the Earth completely uninhabitable for mutants, Ororo decided to lead her people into a war against the Inhumans with the intention to neutralize them for long enough to give the X-Men time to destroy the Mists, since she believed the Inhumans would refuse to do so. The Inhumans and the X-Men eventually reached an understanding and the Cloud was destroyed by the Inhuman queen Medusa, putting an end to the M-Pox crisis. Following the resolution of the conflict, Storm chose to pass the reins of leadership to Kitty Pryde, believing herself to be unfit to serve among the X-Men for instigating war, but Kitty convinced her to remain on the team.

When Ororo's foster mother Ainet was prosecuted by the worshippers of a new god who denounced Ororo's godhood, she prayed to the Old Gods to give her daughter the power of divinity. Before dying, her call was answered by the Stormcaster, which had lain dormant in Asgard. The mystical hammer was awakened and it sought Storm in the middle of one of her adventures with the X-Men, and she regained the abilities that the hammer had once granted her. After learning of Ainet's death not long afterwards, Ororo travelled to Kenya and confronted the new dark god worshipped by her former village, Uovu.

Uovu attempted to sway Ororo to his side, using his powers to resurrect her late parents. However, Ororo discovered catacombs where Uovu kept the bodies hundreds of villagers his followers had killed over the years, ready to be reanimated under his command. When Ororo confronted Uovo about this revelation, he summoned his undead army, also placing Ororo's parents and Ainet under his command. Storm used Stormcaster one last time to confront Uovu in a battle of godhood. She defeated the dark god, though the effort of doing so caused Stormcaster to turn to dust. Before the people reanimated by Uovu dissolved into the wind, Ororo managed to have final words with both her parents and Ainet. Ainet comforted Ororo, assuring Storm that in leaving home to join the X-Men, she didn't abandon her village, but rather gave herself to the world.

Following her conflict with Uovu, Storm found herself drawn into the reality created by Nate Grey, known as X-Man. She was one of the first mutants, along with Magneto, to see through the illusive reality Grey had created - a world in which all humans had been warped into mutants after an event known as 'The Resolution.' They discovered mutants had been drawn from their normal lives within the main continuity, forced to live under the laws and demands the X-Man insisted upon. Taking her findings to Jean Grey, Ororo allowed her old friend to see into her mind, confirming her findings. Storm was amongst the assembled teams of mutants at the final confrontation with Nate Grey, a collective standing against his ever more dictatorial rule.

With the X-Man defeated, and Apocalypse left in the 'Age of X' with the inhabitants of Nate's created reality, the X-Men returned to the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning, based in Central Park. There, Storm remains a key member of the X-Men, working, as she always has, to better the lives of humans and mutants about the globe.

Subject Interview

*Sample written from Ororo's perspective prior to her separation from T'challa

A strong wind bore Ororo aloft, carrying her over the plains of her homeland. Below, antelope sprang through rolling grasslands, their hoof beats and movement through foliage sounding out the natural rhythm that coursed the African continent, an ever-present heartbeat that signalled life and strength. The skies were clear, the sunlight warm - not yet scorching – and if circumstances weren't quite so dire, Ororo may have found herself smiling.

Unfortunately, she had not returned home to enjoy the ambience for which she so often yearned.

Indeed, it was the shadow of death that had called to her. Though the murders that plagued the tribes surrounding the secluded land of Wakanda had not been made public knowledge overseas, it was news that had quickly reached Ororo. As both an Avenger and wife of the region's monarch, she had been informed of every passing by friends and allies within Wakanda. Upon hearing initial accounts, she had near instantaneously decided to leave its king and protector, the Black Panther, to deal with the issue. As time had passed, though, and as more were found lifeless, it was clear her husband required aid – even if he was too stubborn to ask it himself.

She had swallowed her pride and, for the good of Wakanda and its border regions, put aside the squabbles and long silences hat had plagued her and T'Challa's marriage for months. She decided to bridge the distance that had both physically and emotionally seperated the pair, and journey across the sea to the continent that birthed her.

The journey to Wakanda had been an easy one – she knew the route well, knew which winds to ride and which storms to chase. It had taken her no more than a day, and upon her arrival, she had sought the King in his throne room, only to find herself stalled and re-directed by his Dora Milaje. T'Challa was not present – he was out scouting the borders, dealing with newly risen difficulties.

Ororo had not waited for him to return.

Instead, she taken to the sky once again, and leaving the technologically brilliant city behind, circled its outskirts, and then further, passing atop grasslands, rivers and falls. On her third pass, she had, however, still not set her eyes on the King. Antelope, yes, but not the tell-tale suit of Bast that her husband so often donned. Not that she was deterred – she was a woman possessed of incredible determination, a determination that more-often-than-not paid off.

The search for her monarch was to be no different.

Swooping low over a thick range of Baobab trees, Ororo's blue eyes finally fell upon his familiar figure crouched at the heart of a sprawling plain, stooped over a figure that was lost in shadow. Angling herself toward the floor, she slowed, circling his position twice and landing neatly a few paces from where he knelt. There, she waited, not wishing to disturb his reverie. Though she was renowned for being a skilled orator – a woman who could use words to heal and sooth – silence seemed appropriate. She had no doubt T'Challa knew she was there. He would acknowledge her when he was ready, when he had finished quietly mourning the young, lifeless child in his arms.

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