third. backdated to 4/july.

[eaglet]

[Connor has been perched in his window for some time, carefully observing all these noisy explosions down in the city. He has no idea what's going on, but nobody seems to be panicking, so...

Eventually, he opens up his journal to dictate.]

What is the purpose of these explosions? Does anyone know? Is this normal?

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[lara_the_explorer]

Really? That's a twist. I've only been to town briefly, I'm still new to this world.

[eaglet]

I was surprised as well. Perhaps they know more about us than we do about them.

[Anyway --] I am also new to this place. How long have you been here?

[lara_the_explorer]

About a month.

[eaglet]

I have been here for three, and I am still very bewildered by the things I see here.

[lara_the_explorer]

Is it very different from where you came from? It is for me. It's a surreal place.

[eaglet]

There are no castles where I am from. No electricity. No magic wishing. [Prayer and dreams, yes, but that's complicated and a different matter altogether.]

The city down below is closer to what is common in my time, though I am not used to that, either.

[lara_the_explorer]

Not different from mine. But I came from 2013. You sound like you're from a much earlier time if there's no electricity. Let me guess, you're from the years before 1820?

[eaglet]

[2013... that's the furthest along yet he's heard of. It takes him a second to wrap his brain around that; even if it's not much further along than Stephanie, it's still bewildering.]

I am from 1770.

[lara_the_explorer]

I see. That was during the American Revolution.

[eaglet]

There is discontent among the Colonists, but I have not seen anything to suggest revolution yet.

[Granted, he was only in an actual city for a total of like three hours, but...]

[lara_the_explorer]

I see. I don't know what happens in your world, but it definitely became a revolution in mine.

[eaglet]

[That didn't even occur to him.]

Do you think some of the different versions of worlds here can be that different?

[lara_the_explorer]

I don't know for sure. I'm willing to bet on it.

[eaglet]

Then there may be countless possibilities. Subtle differences between each world holding the same name.