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Even with the contract I signed, this is a lot to process. Even after all I've seen in my life, time travel is kind of shocking to me. I keep wondering who else could be here. And how my age has been altered.

Anyway, my name is Luke. Luke Skywalker. I look like a boy right now, but I'm really an adult. I'm a little out of sorts right now, but I will help any way I can to make things better while I'm here.

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[The multiverse likes to chew Fatima up and spit her out. She's been through hell, seven or eight times over.

But this is definitely a first.]

Uh...okay. Back up the truck a second here.

[Her accent is decidedly American, and she looks like she's wearing about an inch-thick of makeup.]

Explain the part where you're not actually a little boy?

I'm an adult, I swear.

[He isn't surprised that some might find it hard to believe.]

I'm 48 years old...I have a wife and a son. But when I stepped through the...what do you call it? Ingress...I found myself like this. I'm just hoping it isn't permanent.

[Fatima is torn between skepticism and stone-cold belief. A sadly routine feeling. But there's no real loss in giving him the benefit of the doubt. For now, anyway.]

I dunno.

When I came through the Ingress, it took half of my stuff. I still haven't gotten any of it back.

I didn't have very much to start with, but I do still have it with me. This is the one thing that's different.

I just hope I don't have to explain it all to my wife. Or my brother-in-law. I love him and my sister dearly, but he likes teasing me at times. He'll never let me hear the end of it...

[You're lucky Tima doesn't know you well enough to tease you yet, Luke. Because if someone she knew had suddenly be de-aged, she'd probably be merciless.]

I...could see how that would be awkward.

[And hilarious.]

Uh...so your name is Luke? That sounds like a name from my country.

Where you from?

Yes, that's it. Luke Skywalker.

Originally, I'm from the planet Tattooine, but now I spend most of my time between two other planets...Coruscant and Yavin IV. I think I've heard of countries, but it isn't very common where I'm from. I think the closest we have is the...well, now it's the Galactic Alliance of Free Systems. It's kind of a interplanetary government.

Edited 2016-12-19 21:04 (UTC)

...yeah. You're definitely not from my world.

[Coruscant, though? That sounds weirdly familiar. But Fatima can't place it. There's too much garbled noise up in her head from over two years of travel.

She'll check her notes later.]

I'm from Earth. Name's Fatima. Fatima Merali.

Nice to meet you.

I don't think I've heard of Earth. But the universe is a big place. I'm not even sure of what all is in my home galaxy..

How are things with this group? It looks a little rough, with the crash and all, but I think as long as everyone works together, we'll be all right.

[Okay, now she's just being pranked.]

I'm sorry. You're...48?

[Because she's having a hard time swallowing that. No one has that kind of optimism. No one over the age of, like, three.]

It's hard to prove, I know it, but it's true.

[He's surmising she probably wonders why he's still so upbeat. It's just who he is, mostly.]

I've just always been a natural optimist. I do get teased about it at times, I'll say that.

[He can't recall how many times he's heard "optimism is your specialty, farmboy, not mine." from Mara.]

[Man, this guy would get along great with Auntie Diana. They could out-do one another with sunshine and puppies.

In the meanwhile, Fatima takes a breath.

Benefit of the doubt, benefit of the doubt, benefit of the doubt...]

Well. Um. Our ship, the Moira, crashed here. There isn't the best chain of command happening. People just tend to be sticking with their friends, I guess?

[Luke nods.] I guess that is natural. It's always good to see a familiar face in a situation like this.

Or almost always.

I'm still grappling with the apparent time travel...seeing faces I thought I never would again.

Running into other people from your world?

[Lucky kid. Er...old man?]

That happens sometimes. In the multiverse.

That's what we call it.

Yeah. People who shouldn't be alive in my time.

I guess I'll have to get used to it, but it's just a shock.

I don't think I've heard that term before...multiverse. Interesting.

You're gonna have to get used to "interesting" around here.

(OOC sorry missed this)

If it's more unpredictable than my life at home, it must really be strange here.

Edited 2017-01-15 21:25 (UTC)

Well.

Have you ever turned into a small child at home?

No. No, you're right...that part's definitely stranger than back home.

Edited 2017-01-17 05:54 (UTC)

I rest my case.

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