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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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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. ]

Good luck with that.

What line of work are you in?

Thanks.

[ She hesitates before sending the next reply. She doesn't really know why she hesitates. Most people here are law enforcement. It just so happens that her law enforcement agencies tend to be shady and corrupt. Well, shadier and more corrupt. And SHIELD has already pissed people off in Wonderland. Heh. ]

Formerly SHIELD, then formerly CIA. Currently unemployed.

You?

[ Oh, her resumé? Yeah, nothing to see here, nothing to see... ]

Formerly thief, formerly kinda hero, formerly a lot of things.

[And nothing currently, but oh well.]

Prestigious career you got there. Although in this place, I'd be more surprised meeting a desk clerk.

[ She wants to say that her career hasn't been prestigious at all. She'd only worked at SHIELD for a couple of years, and had been mostly nameless. At the CIA, she'd been a SHIELD carryover, moving through the ranks through working her ass off while trying to prove herself and prove that she wasn't a traitor. Only to end up a traitor. ]

Wonderland doesn't seem to like common people.

Thief and kinda hero, huh? How'd that happen?

Not for the most part, no. But what's common anyway? Guess there are places out there where being a zombie hunter is pretty common place.

Not as if those are opposite concepts. Look at Robin Hood.

But mostly, time travel sounded like interesting opportunities.

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