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Since we've all been getting to know each other lately, I thought I would pose a question of my own. Have you put any thought into what you'll do once you leave here?

I haven't been here very long, myself, but already, this world is quite different from my own. As far as we know, things like "superheroes" are nonexistent where I'm from. Maybe someday, it will be possible to give people the kinds of abilities that many of us here have now, but even then, I can't imagine the organization I work for taking very well to it. Even if my current responsibilities would allow for it, it would be quite difficult to manage both, to say the least.

I suppose questioning whether or not I'd continue life as a superhero is a bit too whimsical, all things considered. Perhaps a better question would be this: Do you think your experiences here have changed you? How do you think it would impact your future?

The truth is, while I'm very intrigued by this opportunity, I'm not sure what to make of it as a whole. I'm more than happy to do good for the sake of good, yet at the moment, it still feels very much like a detour in life. [Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing, to be able to take a break from one's own reality. But as someone who rarely did things without purpose, it was a foreign concept.] Ultimately, I'm curious about how you think you'll look back on your time here.

I appreciate you taking the time to indulge a rookie's thoughts.

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[Val, who is superficially an unremarkable three-year-old girl, albeit one wearing a super-suit, is sitting in a chair that's too big for her with a very sci-fi laboratory as a backdrop.]

This universe isn't that different from mine. Resolving the Chronoblivion issue might or might not fix the problems we were facing right before I got here, but that's something to deal with when the time comes.

[She shrugs.]

There's always something. Problems don't go away permanently. They just come back in new forms.

[McGillis had never been one to not take kids seriously... But admittedly, even for him, the way this girl talks for her age comes as a bit of a surprise. He has no problem rolling with it, though, just as he does everything else.]

True enough. There will always be a need for people that do the things we do here. A superhero's work is never done, I imagine.

[Then again, that probably went for anyone trying to make a difference, didn't it?]

Being pulled into a world that works similarly to your own must have been a bit of a relief, though.

As opposed to some sword and sorcery junk? Yeah.

[She objects to getting burned as a witch or whatever.]

What's it like where you're from?

[Superheroes and bullshit science are normal, okay. Tell her of your strange homeland.]

There are a few similarities. For example, I'm not unused to space travel, as human beings have been living in space for quite some time now. While we don't have anything quite as expansive as Legion World, the space colonies are created in a fashion similar to the biomes. It's all synthetic, of course, but they're able to simulate what life on Earth would be like. Many people wouldn't even be able to tell the difference.

[Especially considering space travel wasn't a luxury that many could afford. Many would never know what it was like to be able to eat naturally-grown foods, or stick their feet in real dirt. More often than not, living anywhere besides Earth wasn't exactly pleasant, but Earth had its problems, too.]

The biggest difference between the two is the apparent lack of mobile weaponry, as far as I've seen. But then again, I suppose such things are unneeded in a place where seemingly ordinary people can have the power to surpass their strength. [Who needs Gundam when you have Superman, tbh.] The technology here is also much more advanced, and the amount of planets that appear to live independently of each other here is quite impressive.

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