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We're already in some magical land that makes our dreams come true - mostly the bad ones - so let's think about the impossible some more.

[Leonard may be calling it "impossible" mostly to heckle one specific Brit, given he's travelled through time himself, but maybe it will also flush out other time travellers. May be interesting.]

If you could travel to any point in history, where and when would you go, and why?

Also, if you could travel to any point in your own personal history, your lifetime... Same questions.

Would you try to change anything?

[He has experience with trying and the resulting failure too.]

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Wait. Like a two-become-one situation?

We have inhumans and science experiments. But evolution is still easier to grasp than time travel.

Fusion. Makes sense, I suppose, given the nuclear thing.

Most of the meta humans I'm aware of got their powers from a particle accelerator explosion, though I also know a couple of ancient Egyptians who can sprout wings and get reincarnated whenever they're killed.

If you're trying to win the "weirdest world" award, I think you just got it.

... where do the wings come from?

Not by a long shot, judging by some of what I've learned here.

Not sure. Kind of burst out between the shoulder-blades.

Don't sell yourself short. Most everyone else just has zombie apocalypse stuff.

... they keep them INSIDE THEIR BODIES?

You've clearly not been talking to the right people.

Where else would they keep them? Attach them from somewhere else? I suppose permanently outside would make sense, but I imagine it would get impractical a lot.

True.

And yeah. Outside makes way more sense. Like, how does their anatomy work? Do their ribs move to make room for the wings? How do they prevent infection?

Unsure, never looked into it. You should ask Ray Palmer. He's around, in varying sizes, and he's dated one of them. Plus, he's a scientist, I assume he'd have some kinda clue.

If not he could buy one.

Okay, I got "Ray Palmer is a rich scientist who dating a reincarnated person who sprouts wings." But... varying sizes?

He can shrink, grow or be just right, depending on what Goldilocks wants.

Or, y'know, science.

Am I Goldilocks in this scenario, or are you?

Usually I call him Goldilocks, so I'd say the title goes to whoever would find it most irritating.

Doesn't that make you one of the bears? Are you the papa bear, the mama bear, or the boy bear?

Think it just makes me someone who gives strange nicknames. I'm not the bear type.

Sounds like something a bear would say.

So time travel. Favorite time period to visit?

If I advertised myself as a bear, people would be really disappointed by what they actually get.

Out of the ones I've been, Wild West. Which one would you like to go to?

so tempted to put an ad on the network for you now...

Don't know.

The future, maybe? I wouldn't mind finding out how weapons evolve, maybe getting a couple for myself.

Finally a way to find me a man.

If it's anything like the future I've seen, I'm not too gung-ho over getting there.

Finding men is easy. Finding the right one - that's the challenge. So you're a bear looking for love. Does the guy have to be as sweet as honey?

Given that a lot of my life is about making a better future, that's a depressing thing to hear. Do I want to know?

Going by factual evidence, really not.

War-torn world, giant killer machines. Few people still fighting for freedom or at least survival. That's what our mission was about. Making a better future.

[ She doesn't respond for a while, opting to process the news first. ]

Can I ask what the plan was to fix it?

Think I've said it already, but the plan was to take out the man responsible for the downfall. Immortal megalomaniac.

I'm told we succeeded.

Oh, defeating an immortal megalomaniac. That old gag.

Get here before you succeeded?

Yep. Hilarious.

Pretty much.

[Well, it's not wrong.]

How about you? What were you up to back home?

Pretty sure I'm out of a job, actually, so I'll get to have a new one when I get back.

[ Should she mention that she probably got fired because she committed a spot of treason?

... Nah. ]

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