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[He's frowning intently when the video feed starts, but he doesn't hesitate to speak. This has been eating at him for a few days now -- and he can't figure it out himself; so finally he thought he might as well ask...

Maybe someone knows.]

How can you tell what's real?

[That's it; he gives a quick nod and cuts the feed.]

Comments

[impertinenti]

There are plenty of alternate dimensions, all branching off from one's decision to go one way or another, certain tiny changes that are made.

For instance, the timeline which I disappeared would be one without me in it, which would change details involving me. But timelines would branch off, ones which I have not disappeared from.

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[Frowning, and clearly thinking more seriously about this.] But if no one's ever come here who does remember someone else leaving....

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Then, we're all from alternate dimensions.

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Why would they do that?

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Why would they take us from our worlds and put us here?

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I don't know, but isn't it a lot harder to pick every person from a slightly different world? Where nothing's changed except that the other person they took isn't gone?

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Well, why not? Maybe the timeline we disappear from fades onto a different track than the timeline was supposed to follow, thus, the next time they pull another of us out, it's from the main timeline, which then branches off into another off of the main when said person disappears.

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[Trying... to work that out....]

So that means.... that I'm not really gone at home?

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Maybe.

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[Option 1: this guy's wrong and he'll go back to the exact same time. Option 2: this guy's right and he's not even actually missing, he's still doing what needs to be done, and maybe Kite's okay by now!

Option 3: everybody's wrong and he doesn't know what's going to happen. He tables that one to worry about later, because if it's true, it's already too late and he'll have to make plans when he gets home.]

Okay.