She slowly draws her lips over her teeth to make sure only her two main fangs show, which is synecdoche for her realizing how very closely she is flirting with exposing the absolute core of her primary predicament in undeath. The pain--
Is something she can only mitigate by professing that timelines diverge in the end, dooming herself in the process.
"Well, in many cases the Initiative has taken transports whose fates and personal timelines are closely intertwined, so - it does take a while to think about it." She's going to need to make more gestures for this, and extends her right forearm in a straight line. "Imagine the timeline," as she moves her first two fingers along it slowly, "where nobody has ever been taken and everyone proceeds with their uninterrupted joyful or joyless lives." Her fingers reach the base of her right hand, which opens from a tight fist into a wide burst of five splayed fingers. "But then you have the dubious luck to arrive here and stay for a year." That occurs at her right thumb. And at her middle finger-- "Where you find your friend who remembers leaving two years ago and has been here for six months.
"Do you remember their having been kidnapped, or suddenly returning rabid against the United Earth? Or for that matter, do they remember all the things that have happened in the meantime to you."
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Is something she can only mitigate by professing that timelines diverge in the end, dooming herself in the process.
"Well, in many cases the Initiative has taken transports whose fates and personal timelines are closely intertwined, so - it does take a while to think about it." She's going to need to make more gestures for this, and extends her right forearm in a straight line. "Imagine the timeline," as she moves her first two fingers along it slowly, "where nobody has ever been taken and everyone proceeds with their uninterrupted joyful or joyless lives." Her fingers reach the base of her right hand, which opens from a tight fist into a wide burst of five splayed fingers. "But then you have the dubious luck to arrive here and stay for a year." That occurs at her right thumb. And at her middle finger-- "Where you find your friend who remembers leaving two years ago and has been here for six months.
"Do you remember their having been kidnapped, or suddenly returning rabid against the United Earth? Or for that matter, do they remember all the things that have happened in the meantime to you."