Look, assuming this is some kind of alternate dimension...
[She gestures vaguely upwards, indicating the ceiling so as to signify the universe entire, as well as their situation here, as summoned.]
It's possible that I never actually left. Like, some kind of split timelines thing, where I'm both places and neither one is the real me unless the whole... quantum thing gets collapsed. I'm not an engineer, I'm a soldier, I don't pretend to know how it works.
But I do know... That there's a friend of mind here, who's months out of synch with me on what the date is. And I know that whatever the singularity is, it's not a joke. And I know that if I'm not there to kick the galaxy's ass into gear, they are all gonna die, so... [She lifts her drink, toasting Gideon with it in a vague approximation of a salute, and then downs the last of it in one incautious chug.] ...No point in getting existential about it. I'm here now, and that's the problem at hand.
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[She gestures vaguely upwards, indicating the ceiling so as to signify the universe entire, as well as their situation here, as summoned.]
It's possible that I never actually left. Like, some kind of split timelines thing, where I'm both places and neither one is the real me unless the whole... quantum thing gets collapsed. I'm not an engineer, I'm a soldier, I don't pretend to know how it works.
But I do know... That there's a friend of mind here, who's months out of synch with me on what the date is. And I know that whatever the singularity is, it's not a joke. And I know that if I'm not there to kick the galaxy's ass into gear, they are all gonna die, so... [She lifts her drink, toasting Gideon with it in a vague approximation of a salute, and then downs the last of it in one incautious chug.] ...No point in getting existential about it. I'm here now, and that's the problem at hand.
Work the problem, not the solution, as they say.