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I know that we are here voluntarily, and as such this may seem like an odd question to ask...
How do you adjust to not only come from a different planet, but a universe where everything is different? Does it make you happy or do you feel ever more homesick? I have heard it said that something familiar changed only a bit can be more unsettling than something completely alien.
How do you adjust to not only come from a different planet, but a universe where everything is different? Does it make you happy or do you feel ever more homesick? I have heard it said that something familiar changed only a bit can be more unsettling than something completely alien.
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Death and I are old friends, so it is all right. The matters of the heart involved are more troublesome, really.
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They are certainly the most difficult to quantify and predict, it's true. [A wry look.] Sometimes trans-temporal travel seems easy by comparison.
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[If Una has had experience with these matters, perhaps she could help, somehow... maybe know some trick to universe hopping to make it easier
Please don't get up hope, please don't get up hope...
Grainne leans forward, intent on the answer.]
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I am part of a small group of people who have learned how to navigate what some call the time-streams, others the moonbeam roads between the worlds. We are explorers and scientists, and we try to help those who have become lost in time themselves.
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But then, there's a first time for everything, as they say.
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It's not a pretty sight, is it?
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Is there some way in which I might be able to ... help?
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I am afraid not. There is no cure for the emptiness left in one's heart after loss.
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Not really. Only time, if that. I'm sorry.
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[If Una wanted another reason to wonder who Grainne is, she got it.]
You need not be sorry.
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...May I ask you something?
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Grainne tilts her head to listen better.]
What would you like to ask?
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From my world? Earth, where the year is 1996 by the Roman calendar.
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Oh, sorry, no, I meant—to begin with.
[Two thousand years before...?]
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Well, uncertain of the date, but from my earliest memories, I think it is around 130 A.D. to 250 A.D. by that calendar that I first lived. Hadrian's Wall is the best recorded historical landmark to measure by and it was well known before I was born.
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Ah.
[Una lets out a little exhalation, sort of the reverse of a gasp.]
And here I'm the one used to wrong-footing people over matters of Time. [Though clearly she doesn't resent Grainne for this; indeed she's rather amused.] I hope I haven't been accidentally condescending.
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...I'm Una, by the way. I don't think I mentioned. Terribly rude of me.
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[She doesn't really want to get into the whole thing about being dead and Servants, really.]
Grainne. It is nice to meet you.
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The pleasure's all mine. I'll see more of you about, I hope?
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