First (lack of) sleep note audio; un:pnws

[11calls]

[Because Alex is most comfortable doing audio (podcasts, they're radio on demand) that's what her posts are going to be. Her voice is soft and ready for radio, and there's a hint of a Canadian accent in it.

Also, it's two am so feel free to yell at her if she woke your character up!]

You know, I think I'm handling all of this rather well. Taken to a different world, okay. Might be in a coma or something back home but okay. Magic users and superheros, definitely okay. Still might be in a coma, but it's nice to know about.

My problem with being here is time. Back home, it was the end of September, not even proper Thanksgiving [Sorry, someone is from Canada where Thanksgiving is in October] or Halloween. And now suddenly it's Christmas. I've been here a month but I still keep feeling like I've lost all of this time. Losing this time makes me wonder: what do they know back home? Have they noticed I'm gone?

[That's a huge worry for her, she doesn't want people to think that she's just run away and abandoned them when the world may be ending. Or whatever.]

I'd like to think that when I go home, it'll be at the same moment but then I wonder: will I have all this extra time then? Memories of this place? I've been around more weird stuff in the last two years than I care to admit, but I think this might be the weirdest thing ever.

So, that's what keeping me up tonight. [Among other insomnia like things because she's Alex.] What's keeping you up?

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[deploy]

I try to leave the science to the science guys. Not my department.

[A creak as he settles back in his chair.]

You'd have to be more than a little dumb. Time travel is stressful. If everyone you love isn't already dead in the future, you'd better be damn careful you don't end up killing them through some tiny, seemingly insignificant action in the past.

[11calls]

So we're talking more Butterfly Effect than that weekly kids show, huh?

[Alex isn't exactly taking notes, but mentally she is a bit, because well. This place is a lot, and mentally taking notes helps. There's a soft sound that's her plopping her elbow on the table and a softer one that's her chin hitting her palm.']

Did you get properly home in the end?

[deploy]

Butterfly Effect. I hated that movie. Depressing as hell, but not inaccurate.

[A pause, scratching his gloved hand over his lower jaw.]

Yeah. I did. Thanks to someone in the past refusing to give up on me. If it weren’t for him, I would’ve kicked it. No question about that.

[11calls]

It really is. But if who we are is made up of our memories and our past... Yeah, I don't think I'd be interested in it.

[A beat, and an inaudible nod.]

Thank goodness for him, then. How did he fix it?