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[latrodectus]

Well, that's that, I suppose.

[There's a pause. She sounds tired.]

I've been gone less than a month, according to the papers. That's how long it takes for other people to move into my house.

[Her tone shifts— she realizes she's being unfair, but she's had a bad day and doesn't really care.]

Also, Matt, we're out of milk.

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video;

[latrodectus]

Of course not. It would be a security risk.

video;

[professorlionface]

Rather not know things you shouldn't? Preserve the security of the timeline?

video;

[latrodectus]

No. It's just hard to keep secrets when they're written on your body.

video;

[professorlionface]

Fair enough. It wouldn't do unless you could have them removed, or at least covered somehow.

False skin, perhaps.

video;

[latrodectus]

Wouldn't that defeat the pont?

video;

[professorlionface]

Not exactly, the purpose of the tattoo would be to, hypothetically I must stress, carry information across the dimensional divide, so it would really be more for your own viewing than anyone else's.

Assuming it even worked, which I find unlikely.

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[latrodectus]

Sure, but if you could hide it from random observers, there's a good chance you'd be hiding it from yourself. With the mindwipes. And all that.

I don't like keeping actionable intelligence on my body, in any case.

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[professorlionface]

Well, at least until you eventually happened to discover the layer of false skin, which, depending on how well it's designed, would be most effective if unnoticed.

But no, it really wouldn't work in any practical manner.