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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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There seem to me a mix of events that happen at a particular time that differentiate the variations of Earth, as well...

Earth seems to be most commonplace in Luceti, but I would assume that has some sort of reason in how the Malnosso want to escape. I cannot say if other worlds are just as technologically advanced, but a varied spread certainly helps with their chances of finding out.

They didn't give me any possible theories they thought held water. Even if they didn't want to color my perception, it isn't as though I have an "earth" on which to base my assumptions.

They usually never do.

There are obvious facts such as Earth is round and typically there are seven continents with different dialects... but while they may share similar leaders or historical constructs, it would be even more complicated to base assumptions for the fact that it seems timelines diverge and things become different.

There are people here from Earth where a virus outbreak has taken place and there are people here where the only disease outbreak ever to be worried about was the Black Plague centuries before them... Vast ambiguity typically makes theories harder to pin down, especially when those running the place — known and unknown — aren't exactly willing to reveal their intentions.

Auldrant is round as well. I'm...not sure I've ever met someone from a world that was not.

It was important enough for the Malnosso to think it warranted study. Those differences.

Either have I... but it wouldn't surprise me.

I agree, despite them not being the ones who in all actuality bring us here. Our research is pertinent to their own in finding a way out of here, but... there are plenty of missing pieces to this puzzle. Such as who brings us to Luceti and why they would do it for the benefit of the Malnosso. Or why they require people from the same world, but at different times.

My friends from my world are from a variety of different times, but we all fall within the same few years of each other. Earth, meanwhile, has representatives here that span centuries.