She closes her mouth and raises her eyebrows at Haruka's impressive insight. She'd be very surprised if Haruka's history didn't have an interdimensional element.

"You're definitely right about the first, but I have no idea what to tell you about the second, even after all my experiences with interdimensional grubnapping. Kidnapping." Dammit. "The Initiative, as you probably were told, would have you believe our worlds are under just as much siege as the United Earth itself. That said, we have too few ways of knowing for sure what goes on there in our absence - whether it's an absence at all during which we'll be missed, or for that matter if discrepancies in the timeline are resolved by compliance with immutable fate or branching.

"I'm fairly certain myself that we return to the exact time that we left and conduct ourselves as we would, causing various timeline divergences in some cases. How much of that is based in evidence and how much in wishful thinking, I can't say."