“I don’t know; I haven’t even heard if there’s been a confirmed instance of two different versions of a person encountering one another.”
Xiulan looks to Hana questioningly, in case she’s learned something additional on that front.
Plucking vaguely at the point of her jacket collar and then dropping her hand, she rolls the idea around further in her head. It has the heft of ball bearings clanging into one another. Points of divergence of self: there are chilling implications personally, in some directions. In others...no percentage in dwelling on that right now.
“I’d think they could diverge quite a lot...but. Thinking about time travel implications spins up a hundred other questions pretty quickly. Including impact to—“ An understated flourish calls out the room, the rebellion itself. “—all of this.”
“So, sounds like we should ask for a primer on what’s known. And then figure out how to fill in the gaps.”
Re: less than subtle hawk hovering (paging Sasha, Hana, and Xiulan)
Xiulan looks to Hana questioningly, in case she’s learned something additional on that front.
Plucking vaguely at the point of her jacket collar and then dropping her hand, she rolls the idea around further in her head. It has the heft of ball bearings clanging into one another. Points of divergence of self: there are chilling implications personally, in some directions. In others...no percentage in dwelling on that right now.
“I’d think they could diverge quite a lot...but. Thinking about time travel implications spins up a hundred other questions pretty quickly. Including impact to—“ An understated flourish calls out the room, the rebellion itself. “—all of this.”
“So, sounds like we should ask for a primer on what’s known. And then figure out how to fill in the gaps.”