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@TemporalWhimsy @HackingWeeb - "Then... what're you gonna do now?" she mutters, mind still spinning around the stories he told. About his friends, about his goal. ... And then a memory resurfaced, its origins unknown. Nothing but the words... "S... Stein?" She scrunches her nose. "Frankenstein?"

@TemporalWhimsy @HackingWeeb - And then he asks two questions, only one of which she really ended up hearing. "... Hm? A little bit..." It wasn't particularly cold, but the temperature had dropped significantly around this time of night, and being tired made her body temperature fall even further. -

"Yesss, ma'am!" Daru happily trailed along after, free labor aside. But Okabe was right. He was a simple man of simple 'pleasures' that was gonna be more than enough to hold him over for a while. Bringing a toolbox with, hoping that'd be enough for this intriguing thing that —

@TemporalWhimsy @HackingWeeb - in this manner if she chooses to alter events in 2014, so it doesn't matter what she does or how reckless she acts. Probably.

@TemporalWhimsy @HackingWeeb - She isn't sure the context of how these people are gone from Okabe's life, really. Is it some more sci-fi mumbo jumbo? Or did they die? Either way, it doesn't really matter. They clearly weigh on his mind and matter a lot to him. She knows there will be nobody to affect -

@TemporalWhimsy @HackingWeeb - Like the way the members of the Bebop were more than just coworkers, even if she hated admitting it out loud. Or to herself.

@TemporalWhimsy @HackingWeeb - time jumper." Two weeks isn't a huge amount, but that's still ... insane. She shouldn't be surprised at this point with all the things she's seen, but time travel in particular seemed so out of reach. "... They were just more than your lab members, weren't they?" -

@TemporalWhimsy @HackingWeeb - mind, but one thing's for sure: She ... believes him. Much easier than she should, even when all her rational thought processes tell her that he's psychotic and that time travel isn't possible. But a woman's intuition never lies.

@TemporalWhimsy @HackingWeeb - bar for companionship is in hell. Who knows. She walks back towards him, taking a seat next to him on the couch. "... Tell me more about them," she whispers. Did he intend to try and fix things— whatever it is he did to get them killed? So many questions lingered on her -

@TemporalWhimsy @HackingWeeb - version of me never even comes to be." It's like being dead, but better. At least some version of her will have a wonderful life that didn't get cut short.

@TemporalWhimsy @HackingWeeb - She's said too much, perhaps. Faye tenses, quickly straightening and backing off of him. ... And she goes to stand by the window again, looking outside. If she's in 2010, then nobody's actually following her, right? "If I can wait it out until 2014, I can ... make sure this -