016 - So you think you're changed, do you?

[notdreaming]

[ Video ]

Excuse me?

[ Kara is speaking (quite politely) in Kryptonian. It's up to you if your character can understand her, or if she can understand them. ]

I'm not sure what's going on here, but I need to get back home. Mother will be furious if I'm even one thrib late getting to the trials, and I'm not dressed for it or anything. I'm supposed to meet Tali at her house in Argo. How far are we from there?

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[strangehistorian]

Hm, oh dear.

[Then, in Kryptonian:] You are onboard a ship called the Barge, and you'll be returned home in a few days with no time having passed in your home universe.

[notdreaming]

[ She just blinks at Chromie for a moment. ]

That's impossible.

Kryptonian

[strangehistorian]

[Chromie smiles, indulgent without quite being condescending.]

Which part?

[notdreaming]

All of it?

[strangehistorian]

Hm. This ship exists outside of time, as it were. It also has the ability to pull people in from their own timelines and universes, sometimes without notice, during events we call floods. They are always returned when the flood is over, and floods never last very long.

[notdreaming]

[ ... ]

You're serious.

Father is going to love this. How do you open the way between universes? How can someone be pulled through and not even know it? I could fill a sunstone with the questions I have about time travel.

[strangehistorian]

I know a lot about time travel, but unfortunately nothing about inter-dimensional travel. I just run the library onboard!

What's a sunstone?

[notdreaming]

How can you be a librarian and not know what a sunstone is?

[ This whole 'other worlds' thing is still new to her. ]

[strangehistorian]

Our library has books.

[notdreaming]

[ There is so much judgement in this look. ]

You can't have much if it's all in book form.

[strangehistorian]

We do not have sunstones here, I'm afraid. But our library is very large.

[notdreaming]

Maybe by your standards. Words on paper is so inefficient.

[strangehistorian]

Maybe by your standards.

[ Private ]

[andyougoleft]

[Well, look, Slevin has no idea what Kara is on about but she's always told him she'd help him out of a tight spot.

This one seems pretty tight to him.]

Kara? Look, I don't want to drag you into this, but I could do with some bulletproofing about now.

[ Private ]

[notdreaming]

[ She startles, and for a moment she just stares at him. ]

What?

[ Private ]

[andyougoleft]

What, what?

[Because he's brilliant right now, okay?]

[ Private ]

[notdreaming]

Who are you? How do you know my name? And what was that about bulletproofing?

[ Private ]

[andyougoleft]

I'm Slevin. Normally, you insist on being my friend, and you keep claiming you can do that at all because bullets don't hurt you.

Did I use small enough words for whatever planet you're currently inhabiting?

[ Private ]

[notdreaming]

Yeah, I think you have me confused with someone else. I just got here. I definitely haven't made any friends yet, and I definitely am not bulletproof.

[ Private ]

[andyougoleft]

[At which Slevin groans with characteristic but unusually dramatic theatricality.]

Floods. Goddammit.

Okay, Kara, listen to me: where do you think you are?

[ Private ]

[notdreaming]

The small blonde woman said it's a ship with the technology to draw people through time and dimensions. If it's true, it's incredible.

[ Private ]

[andyougoleft]

Incredible is one word for it.

Claustrophobic and insane are others.

[ Private ]

[notdreaming]

Insane, maybe. But why claustrophobic?