[If anyone welcomed the rampaging squid monster, it would have been news to him. He takes the chance to drive the conversation elsewhere, however, perhaps to learn more about her.]
[It's not unheard of at all, and he'd argue that she hadn't really missed much--Earth's oceans aren't all that nice to look at, except from space, maybe, but he's always had a sort of fondness for worlds covered in water, like Big Blue.
Then again, he's never seen something like the kraken until here, so.]
Really? [That's got her a little taken aback.] I was kind of expecting you to tell me how great planets are and I shouldn't judge them all by this one or... I don't know. [She shrugs and swipes a low-lying tree branch out of the way in one gesture.] I want to live on my own homeworld one day. Maybe I'll just live by a river instead. That's more than enough water for me all at once.
[Besides, some part of her has this idealised thought that when it's the homeworld it won't matter if there's weird stuff in the oceans and the wildlife is ornery, because it's the homeworld.
But anyway, Falcon sounds like the voice of experience there.]
This is a pretty incredible planet, all things considered.
[He shrugs a little, laughing. Macha is impressive, really, with it’s land formations and deep jungles and bioluminescence, but he’s never exactly been one for the great outdoors. He’ll take it at a distance, climate controlled or whizzing by at mach 2 from the comfort of his vehicle.]
Not so good at roughing it.
[That, and the fact that they’re blowing it all up soon kind of sours things.]
It is. [She can agree on that, at least.] I like it a lot more than I did when we were hiking down to the first camp.
[It wouldn't have been possible to like it any less.] But - right. I don't think I'll ever get used to roughing it like this.
[Not entirely true - she already has, a lot. But she'll never be comfortable with it, that much is for sure.]
One version-- oh. The... alternate universes thing? [She only got introduced to this whole thing not so long ago, courtesy of finding out there are two different versions of certain people running around.]
[He tries not to think about it, anyway. Quantum physics and alternate universes are a little beyond him, though he certainly doesn't doubt their existence. The CDC being some kind of dimension-crossing super corporation is more than evidence of that.]
Either that, or I'm just five hundred years ahead of everyone else.
I did think it was something to do with time travel. [It was easy to focus on the time aspect when all she knew was that everyone she knew was months ahead of her in the timeline.]
Then I was talking to some friends from back home and it wasn't just that they knew things about the future - they were talking about things that I remember... but happened totally differently.
[She'd be more specific, but 'the wrong friend died' is a bit of a downer.]
I was here for a while without even realising any of that.
[Weird is a good word for it, not that Falcon's a stranger. It's also not the first he's heard of alternate versions of the same place--Red and Green are a good example of that. It could be any number of things. Time travel, parallel universes, being pulled from different points on the timeline...
He offers Tali something of a sympathetic glance.]
Well, I found out all my friends from home know more about my life than I do... but actually, I'm not even sure any of it happens the way they're saying it does.
[Somehow, telling herself everything might only happen in another universe just... doesn't help.]
It's all really confusing and I might need to ask somebody to draw me a chart.
[Falcon almost winces, mostly because that sounds unspeakably awkward.]
Not sure I'd know how to deal with something like that.
[Not sure he'd want to know, really. He's pretty certain that if he had any friends from home (or any friends at all), he'd shut them up if they even thought to talk to him about things he hadn't experienced yet.]
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[If anyone welcomed the rampaging squid monster, it would have been news to him. He takes the chance to drive the conversation elsewhere, however, perhaps to learn more about her.]
Not near the ocean back home?
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[She has to jump onto a large fallen branch and then over it, and only then explains herself.] I grew up in space.
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[It's not unheard of at all, and he'd argue that she hadn't really missed much--Earth's oceans aren't all that nice to look at, except from space, maybe, but he's always had a sort of fondness for worlds covered in water, like Big Blue.
Then again, he's never seen something like the kraken until here, so.]
You're not missing a whole lot.
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[Besides, some part of her has this idealised thought that when it's the homeworld it won't matter if there's weird stuff in the oceans and the wildlife is ornery, because it's the homeworld.
But anyway, Falcon sounds like the voice of experience there.]
What about you, anyway? Where are you from?
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[He shrugs a little, laughing. Macha is impressive, really, with it’s land formations and deep jungles and bioluminescence, but he’s never exactly been one for the great outdoors. He’ll take it at a distance, climate controlled or whizzing by at mach 2 from the comfort of his vehicle.]
Not so good at roughing it.
[That, and the fact that they’re blowing it all up soon kind of sours things.]
I’m from Earth. One version of it, I guess.
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[It wouldn't have been possible to like it any less.] But - right. I don't think I'll ever get used to roughing it like this.
[Not entirely true - she already has, a lot. But she'll never be comfortable with it, that much is for sure.]
One version-- oh. The... alternate universes thing? [She only got introduced to this whole thing not so long ago, courtesy of finding out there are two different versions of certain people running around.]
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[He tries not to think about it, anyway. Quantum physics and alternate universes are a little beyond him, though he certainly doesn't doubt their existence. The CDC being some kind of dimension-crossing super corporation is more than evidence of that.]
Either that, or I'm just five hundred years ahead of everyone else.
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Then I was talking to some friends from back home and it wasn't just that they knew things about the future - they were talking about things that I remember... but happened totally differently.
[She'd be more specific, but 'the wrong friend died' is a bit of a downer.]
I was here for a while without even realising any of that.
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[Weird is a good word for it, not that Falcon's a stranger. It's also not the first he's heard of alternate versions of the same place--Red and Green are a good example of that. It could be any number of things. Time travel, parallel universes, being pulled from different points on the timeline...
He offers Tali something of a sympathetic glance.]
How'd that go over?
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[Somehow, telling herself everything might only happen in another universe just... doesn't help.]
It's all really confusing and I might need to ask somebody to draw me a chart.
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Not sure I'd know how to deal with something like that.
[Not sure he'd want to know, really. He's pretty certain that if he had any friends from home (or any friends at all), he'd shut them up if they even thought to talk to him about things he hadn't experienced yet.]