Oh. [ duh. yes. that makes sense. he's just leaning around to look at her calendar. ] I can teach you Earth's system if you if you want. Might make it easier to keep track of since...a lot of us are from some form of Earth.
What is--okay, no, I'll come back to that in a second. [ if he asks questions they're going to get nowhere. ] So today's Sunday. Yesterday, trial day, was Saturday, and the day we learned about Dahut and Luke was Friday. The lockdown was on Thursday. The day we had to fix the ship and had that party was Wednesday. The day before that is Tuesday, and Monday comes before that. Pretty easy to track when you have events to tie them to.
Writing it down helps. But no it wasn't a big deal, I just...have no idea what Remday is or how other calendars work. I'm still getting used to people being from other planets. [ although... ] You and Guy are from the same one, right? Were you together before this?
Yep! We're both from Auldrant, and we were traveling together when all this weirdness happened!
[ there's some tangible fondness there. ]
I don't know much about Earth, either... but there sure are a lot of people here who came from there.
[ she's trying to figure out if she should call them "Earthians" or something else... are she and Guy "Auldrantian"? these just aren't words that have had any need to exist until now. ]
It's even weirder here, because even if everybody came from Earth not all of them are the same one? They're physically similar, but the history and everything about them isn't. It can make it pretty confusing if you're talking to someone from an Earth where one major world event happened, but somebody else from a different version of Earth never even heard of it.
Hm...nothing like a global effect that can read it, no. But there are people out there, psychics, who can see into the future supposedly and read into it. But for the most part people have to live without knowing what to expect.
Auldrant has something like that then? [ and because he's thinking about what she said: ] Does it have something to do with why you and Guy were traveling together?
...maybe I'm a little biased, but I think that's probably the best side to be on anyway. If you're the one living your life, why should something else dictate how it turns out?
You make it sound easy... Most people are really scared of the idea of living without any guidance, of making the wrong choices and screwing everything up, missing opportunities that could have been life-changing, things like that...
I think I only make it sound easy because I've never lived any other way. Everything that's happened in my life so far has been without guidance and just...y'know. Things that happened.
[ some choices he's made himself, and some made for him. ]
But with something like the Score, does it really tell you what the best future will be...? What if there's another choice that could change and make things better?
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So if today's "Sunday"... okay, that's practically the same as Remday.
[ she'll start there and work her way backwards, marking the calendar with the events of the past week. ]
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Got it! Okay, I'll try to remember.
Did you want to ask something, too?
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Writing it down helps. But no it wasn't a big deal, I just...have no idea what Remday is or how other calendars work. I'm still getting used to people being from other planets. [ although... ] You and Guy are from the same one, right? Were you together before this?
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[ there's some tangible fondness there. ]
I don't know much about Earth, either... but there sure are a lot of people here who came from there.
[ she's trying to figure out if she should call them "Earthians" or something else... are she and Guy "Auldrantian"? these just aren't words that have had any need to exist until now. ]
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[ it's been wild for him to observe. ]
Where were you and Guy going?
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[ whoa. how? that's huge! what if there were other auldrants, too... ]
... Our separate ways, pretty soon. We come from different places, and we pretty much finished what we set out to do, so...
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[ but oh. he sees. give him a moment to go back to his own notes. ]
So I guess that means you were successful in whatever it was you set out for? [ finished does not always mean good, actually. ]
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[ but instead they're here, and... she doesn't have to say goodbye so soon. at least to guy. and that's... kind of nice? despite everything.
but this thing about alternate timelines really is something... ]
... Shoma, does Earth have a Score?
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Don't think so. What's a Score? Maybe we have something similar.
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Auldrant has something like that then? [ and because he's thinking about what she said: ] Does it have something to do with why you and Guy were traveling together?
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There's only one future written in the Score, so the idea of a world having more than one future is kind of shocking...
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When it's written in the Score...is there really no changing it?
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That's like, the debate of the century right now!
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[ some choices he's made himself, and some made for him. ]
But with something like the Score, does it really tell you what the best future will be...? What if there's another choice that could change and make things better?
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But I hope there is.
[ another, better choice. and a better future that follows it. ]
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Okay. If you could actually pick how your future went, what would you choose for yourself?
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Seriously? What would you even do just being married to a guy? [ what's the point of having money if you're not gonna use it!! ]
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