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-4° | anywhen (text)

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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[He appreciates that Lenoard doesn't press. He knows the guy knows a thing or two about the Underground, but he's not sure how much.]

so just to see something?

[He pauses while he thinks about that. He can think of at least two things right off the top of his head.]

well the stuff i'd wanna see wouldn't be nearly as cool as dinosaurs. it'd be pretty boring.

[Enough to know that pressing wouldn't lead anywhere good and how does one even comfort a skeleton? In this case, probably some snack. But best not to even go down that road.]

Like what? I want to just how dull you are.

[Ketchup is always a good bet.]

hehe alright

but get ready to fall asleep

i think i'd want to go see galileo charting the sun and planets and figuring out how it all worked

or charles messier making his list of deep space objects

or cecilia payne-gaposchkin figuring out stars were made of hydrogen

something nerdy like that

Hey, that's pretty interesting.

I'm still peeved my team apparently waited until I was gone before saving Einstein and his wife from Nazis.

[Wait.]

I already made the Zweistein joke.

you'd be the first person to think so

[Oh man. Whatever the joke is, it's gone right over his head. He hates when that happens. Must be a foreign language joke.]

nice to know you guys helped him out though

what's a nazi?

[How to explain what a Nazi is without getting really complicated?]

An asshole. A racist asshole.

[Succinct.]

So many worlds are more like mine, I sometimes assume knowledge. Gotta work on that.

[Probably for the best.]

huh okay

nah we all do that

every so often i forget that people come from worlds without magic

and don't believe magic is real

to me it's like saying someone doesn't believe in rocks or water

See, I'm not sure if my world has magic, but with all I've been through the past few years, it wouldn't surprise me at all.

Where's the difference between science and magic, in your world?

that's the other thing huh? there's so much about our own worlds we probably don't know

science and magic aren't opposites where i'm from

magic is a force like gravity or anything else

it just happens to be what keeps us monsters together

so magic could be a field of study for a scientist, basically

Huh. Gotcha, guess that makes sense.

Is that what makes someone a monster? That they're held together by magic?

Tell me if I'm crossing any lines. No one taught me how to talk to monsters.

nah you're good

but yeah

monsters are made of magic and can use magic

humans who can use magic are extremely rare

there's some other stuff but most of it's less important