one █ voice

[uzi]

_{( The voice is clipped, sharp, and to the point-- no scuffling with controls or stopping to take things in, here. Also? Whoever this woman is, she sounds pissed off. )}

So, City—great name, by the way, though I think someone beat you to it—stop me if I’ve got any of this wrong.

Alternate dimension, time travel, and duplicates of people we might already know. Superpowers, overly ambitious AI, and absolutely no discretion about who it pulls in, despite claiming to want “heroes.”

And apparently no reliable way back, since you’re all sitting on your hands, here. Perfect.

Just one question—is the universe as I know it going to implode because of all this crap?

Comments

[uzi]

Alternate reality world where people look like the ones I know, but aren't?

Safe to say trust no one.

[nottheanswers]

Not a bad plan. But someone you definitely didn't know could be a decent place to start, eventually.

[uzi]

So. You, then?

[nottheanswers]

Hell, that's up to you.

[uzi]

Good answer.

[nottheanswers]

It was an easy question. We're talking about about establishing trust, and it would be presumptuous of me to expect you to extend it to me on my say so.

Defeats the whole purpose.

[uzi]

But if you'd expected me too that would have said something quite different about you, wouldn't it have?

[nottheanswers]

Ask the right question, it can tell you whatever you're trying to find out.

Unless this is just the conclusion I wanted you to draw, of course.

[uzi]

Assuming I think like you expect and I believe everything either of us is saying.

[nottheanswers]

Of course not. You seem to know what you're doing too well to fall for it.

Falls back into the trust issue.

[uzi]

It's not an issue. It's a precaution.

[nottheanswers]

Eh, semantics.

[uzi]

Specifics.

[nottheanswers]

A precaution is just a method one uses to approach an issue. Or, more specifically, a potential issue. It can be both.