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[It feels like she's been locked in that research room forever. Almost worse than legislative paperwork, turning five small piles of books about various worlds into something that might be useful. Synthesizing data, in a way that felt adventurously real at first before the familiar tedium of it all set in again. And there was more, left undone. There was always more.

Regardless, it will be a while before she attempts another mission. Even one that seems suited to her set of skills. Unlike so many others who go away on missions, Nephry walks herself toward home without difficulty. Thinking to surprise most of her housemates, she stops at the flower shop for something decorative and colorful. Anything to erase the lines of letters from behind her closed eyelids.

Once she does get home, however, there are some orders of business to address.]

Those of you who name your home as a planet called 'Earth': are you aware of just how many different worlds there are that share that name? That share most of a history, often an entire history save for one significant event? It was quite interesting. [Dull hours of reading aside.] Even more interesting that it doesn't seem to be true of most if not all of the other worlds represented here - there is only one Auldrant, for example.

[And now, the heavier news.]

When I returned a short while ago, I...I found Anise's room empty. It appears she has gone home.

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[...Interesting. He leans back on the couch he'd already made himself comfortable on before responding. It was something he'd wondered about as well, after all.]

Yeah. I've met a few people from different versions of 'Earth' already.

[A pause.]

Sorry about your friend, by the way.

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Are you one of those people?

[She thanks him for the apology quietly. Anise, at least, went home to live.]

Yeah, I am.

[Not that there was much, if anything of Earth left anymore.] I'd have to know more about these other variations to make any comparison though.

Why not tell me a little bit about yours, then?

Well... [Might as well. He didn't have to give every detail, anyway.] You know how this village is built, right?

The technology here is about 21st century standard for Earth, but where I'm from Earth is a good 800 years past of that. Around mid-29th century. [If they weren't using the Star Date system, anyway, that's where the year would fall.]

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Eight hundred years is a very long time. From what I read in the past two weeks, there is no guarantee that someone else from eight hundred years in the future of a planet called Earth is going to have the same history as you remember. I was going to offer you someone to compare with, but I don't know anyone else at that point in time.

Yeah, I know. [An alternate Earth was just as likely to have minor differences as major ones.] There's no real way to guess what a different version of my planet might be like.

[Technological and social growth had proven to be a good way to gauge the state of a planet where he was from, but with an altered history all sorts of things could have turned out different. It did make him wonder, though.... if the other Earths were....]

You're in luck, then. There are dozens of others here that you might talk to about just that.

Maybe. [It was something he was a bit curious about, now.....]

Can I ask why you're asking, if you're not from Earth? ['It was quite interesting.'... Had she been reading about Earth?]

I was on a mission for the Malnosso and Earth is what I researched.

The Malnosso wanted you to research Earth?

[He'd been under the impression they already had a significant amount of data on most of the worlds the people from here came from. If that was still a work in progress on their end.....]

Do you know why? What exactly were you researching? Just history?

Whatever they or their assistants placed in front of me. Forgive me for not elaborating as much as I could, right now. When I close my eyes I still see words.

...Sorry. [A mission, huh? He'd read about those...]

I was just curious. They must have some reason for researching places.

I was not the only researcher. There were others, and you could join them if you chose.

Missions, right? I haven't gotten around to looking at those, myself.

[He wasn't sure he wanted to. but the benefits made it something to keep in mind, at least...]

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