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Nineteenth Consensus

[For today, enjoy the sultry tones of the Twins chatting over an audio feed.]

Have you ever thought of going back?

How far back?

Oh who knows. It might be different for you than for me.

Certainly.

But there must have been a moment you can look at and say—

And say "things might have been different."

And if you could go back to that moment, and do that different thing—

—Then — poof! — you aren't you any longer.

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[Oh, boy! Another existential crisis that he won't enjoy. At first, he wonders what he could possibly change if he had the chance to redo the killing game.

Then he remembered that ritual he participated in.

And the Insect Meet and Greet incident.

And before that...]

So... What if you die while trying to go back and fix things in the past?

Why should you want to die?

What a macabre question...

Ew! I never said I wanted to die, ya creeps!

Then why bring death up at all?

Because a wrong choice can kill you! Duh!

So making the right choices seems to be the thing to do.

But what if ya don't know which is the right choice, huh? Then what?

Trial and error, perhaps?

That sounds reasonable to me.

[... How does he respond to that.]

But what if I'm not a video game protag who can go back and try all the routes?

[Nailed it.]

Then I suppose you might be sunk.

Contrariwise, if you simply make good choices in the first place, you may not have to worry.

[.....]

Did you seriously not listen to what I said a minute ago?

We listened!

We just may not have heard.

... UUUUUGH.

[He's cutting the feed out of frustration.]

Yeah. No. That's exactly what my Mirror is, a different choice. I don't want to see any more of that.

[Sweet Celestia, this is more unsettling than it usually is. ]

Surely that wasn't the only choice.

A life has many, many choices in it.

I...suppose you have a point.

Though from what I understand, actually toying with what was tends to have messy future results.

[That's why Equestria has like, five alternate dystopian future worlds now.]

How could we know that?

We've never tried it ourselves.

...No, I guess you wouldn't. But trust me, it's a bad idea.

Are you sure?

In all circumstances?

Pretty sure, yes. Disturbing the timeline only causes trouble.

But we've never tried it.

Perhaps things would turn out better if it were us doing the disturbing.

Um.

Probably not. No offence but. No.

Are you certain?

Why not?

I think you're pretty good at it already. I wouldn't want to see you two actually trying to do the disturbing.

...I'm not sure if that's a compliment or an insult.

...Pick whichever one makes you less potentially angry at me.

We shan't take it as an insult then.

We're sure you wouldn't really want to insult us.

Contrariwise, if you did want to insult us, we couldn't really stop you.

[The most nervous laugh that ever there was.]

See? Flawless logic.

Flawless?

Why, yes. Of course.

Of course it's flawless.

Yeeees. Flawless.

So. Um. I'm gonna try and batten down the hatches for...whatever this is gonna be okay? Okay.

Okay!

[Oh boy can Georgia think of plenty of choices she wishes she'd made differently. She never expected to have this many regrets.]

What would you change, then?

I would change ever loaning my rattle to someone.

...You're simply never going to let that go, are you?

Never.

Fine! I wouldn't have spoiled anyone's new rattle.

Really. [It seems so… small. Moreover, it seems like a strange thing for two girls who are clearly not actual babies to be quarreling over.] How long ago was that?

Ages and ages and--

It feels like yesterday.

[It's times like this Georgia remembers how little she wants to have children.]

Can't you just get a new one from the closets?

[It's a long moment before they answer, and it's as though they're staring at her through the network, despite this being an audio only exchange.]

No.

[Touchy.]

Can you get anything from the closets?

[She is curious about that, actually. Can the residents use the closets the same way as the rest of them?]

We do what we like.

When we like.

That doesn't answer my question.

It certainly does.

We aren't limited, so we do what we like.

It should be obvious what we mean by that.

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