[Video | Monday afternoon, Week 43]

[kazeninaru]

[There's a mildly disgruntled and somewhat determined-looking senshi on the screen today. Haruka's just come from a very interesting meeting, and she is determined to make sure everyone knows about it.]

Yo. People from the end of the world time, with the shrinking everything and... everything. I met Roland today. I know it was him, even if he denied it. He called me "miss" and he didn't want to talk to me. He called himself "David Birne" and says he works for the council here in Bellona. And then someone followed me, after I spoke to him.

[She shifts a little, looking aside with a scowl, then admits:]

I sometimes get flashes of things, feelings, when I am around someone dangerous, or when there's something I need to know to help someone. Most times it is only a feeling, but visions sometimes, too. And I had one, of that place in the future, when I shook his hand. It left my whole arm numb.

[She makes a flexing motion with the hand in question, still feeling some pins and needles in it as sensation slowly comes back. Looking back at the camera again, she settles back into a determined expression.]

There is something wrong here. Whether he is involved in bringing this future about or he is just hiding something about it, I think we should find out. You-tachi back at the city, see if you can learn anything about him? I will try here, before we leave, once I track down Zevran.

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[kazeninaru]

Good. And I will. It may be too late, if he has seen this much, but it may help some.

Did you speak with him much, Stark-san? In the future time?

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[nodavinci]

Not really. He never came down to the engine room.

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[kazeninaru]

I only spoke with him a little, but it was enough for him to know me.

[She huffs, pushing her hair out of her eyes.]

What could he have to do with all of this? And how could he hide being gone for two weeks, as we were?

[Unless he didn't, but she doesn't know how he'd manage that, unless he knows a lot more than she does about the whole mess.]

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[nodavinci]

He probably has people to cover for him. Aides, secretaries, possibly a bodyguard or two if he's positioned high enough on the food chain.

[There's a brief pause.]

Of course, there's another possibility: he's Roland, but he's from before Salvation. There are people from thousands of realities on that ship; why not this one?

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[kazeninaru]

How would that work? We were all pulled to the ship, regardless of where we were. How would when we were have anything to do with it? Besides, nobody on this planet lives that long unless they're from the ship.

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[nodavinci]

Not from before Salvation crashed - from before he was taken. Or a version of Roland who was never taken. It's not likely, but we have to consider the possibility. You know, while we find out what we can about who he is, and why he'd be lying.

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[kazeninaru]

[She gives him a funny look.]

We were all taken from the same time, and returned at the same time. Even the Oracle, for all she-- has not returned. Why would he not be, too?

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[nodavinci]

Why would there be multiple alternate versions of anyone?

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[kazeninaru]

Because there are alternate versions of their reality.

[Duh. Or wait....]

... or do you think he is one of those? From a different version of his own reality?

[The thought is daunting, because then he really doesn't remember her, except she knows he has to. He knows who she is.]

But he was lying about knowing me. He knows I am a woman.

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[nodavinci]

I'm saying we can't rule out the possibility.

[He pauses, considering that for a moment.]

He could have intel on your group. Which is not actually a comforting thought.

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[kazeninaru]

[Hey, she actually knows what intel means! She's learning some slang. However, she agrees with him, so there's no excitement here, just some grim certainty.]

No, it is not. He would have more means to get it than we did, while we were there. I need people in Poseidon and the Old City to find what they can... we need to find out as much as possible.