[He's quiet for a moment as he mulls responses over in his head, and works at his cigarette once it's back in hand. The bottle he'll just hold with his knees for now so he can put an arm around her shoulders.]
You wouldn'ta lost me. Not forever. I dunno what woulda happened if it did work, but I'd find you again. Living people see us lots of the time. I'd see you. I know I would.
[They might have been split in time, though. Maybe if it had worked, he would've been sent right back to '67, leaving her in 2004. Maybe he'd have to live the decades in between before he'd find her again. He'd be an old man. What a weird thought. Deserves a drink.]
What that place showed us, though... I dunno. That mine, them selling vide noir in the gift shop, it sure looked like Zazo's business bullshit was alive an' well, an' I dunno if that means the Enders kicked him outta California an' made him run across the country, or if it means he's got some fuckin' business empire they couldn't take down. Means in at least one version of things... Well, I dunno.
[He can't bring himself to speculate too much on the possible negatives. All possibilities are real in their own way, apparently. It has no bearing on what he'll experience from his point of view. Some realities you lose, some you win, an' you only see one at a time but the rest all happen to some other version of you, or that's how it seems to be. He'd resisted at first, but he sees it now. It makes the choices they make and the life they want to live even more important. They drive their own destinies to form a reality they want to be a part of.]
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You wouldn'ta lost me. Not forever. I dunno what woulda happened if it did work, but I'd find you again. Living people see us lots of the time. I'd see you. I know I would.
[They might have been split in time, though. Maybe if it had worked, he would've been sent right back to '67, leaving her in 2004. Maybe he'd have to live the decades in between before he'd find her again. He'd be an old man. What a weird thought. Deserves a drink.]
What that place showed us, though... I dunno. That mine, them selling vide noir in the gift shop, it sure looked like Zazo's business bullshit was alive an' well, an' I dunno if that means the Enders kicked him outta California an' made him run across the country, or if it means he's got some fuckin' business empire they couldn't take down. Means in at least one version of things... Well, I dunno.
[He can't bring himself to speculate too much on the possible negatives. All possibilities are real in their own way, apparently. It has no bearing on what he'll experience from his point of view. Some realities you lose, some you win, an' you only see one at a time but the rest all happen to some other version of you, or that's how it seems to be. He'd resisted at first, but he sees it now. It makes the choices they make and the life they want to live even more important. They drive their own destinies to form a reality they want to be a part of.]