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[averytinyparticle]

[Taking the hint, Quark switches to private as well.]

I'm not really too sure. I think Peggy might be from the earliest since she knows Steve so well--but I'm from 2074, myself, so I'm not so good with history.

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[devoutish]

2074.

[Alfie lets out a low whistle, running a hand down his face.]

That's stranger than the aliens, to me.

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[averytinyparticle]

Really? I think aliens are pretty weird!

[He grins, a bit sheepishly. It was supposed to be a joke, kind of, but it's pretty much the truth.]

I guess that is really really far in the future from you, huh? I always thought 2020 was a long time ago, but that's 100 years after 1920!

[Wow! Time sure is interesting.]

Sorry I can't help too much more about that. Is there anything else I could try and tell you? I know I'm just a kid, but I've been here a lot longer than most of the others.

[Which is kind of sad to think about--it seems like there's barely anybody left that was here when he first showed up.]

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[devoutish]

They are. But it's not the same as hearing about my own planet in the future, yeah?

[He's trying not to ask too many questions about it, even when he's curious. There's only so much he can focus on at once, and right now, Snowhell takes priority over "wait, there's going to be a world war two?"]

How long have you been around? How old are you?

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[averytinyparticle]

[Quark nods thoughtfully. He hadn't really thought of it that way, but it does make sense.]

It's been...101 days, for me. So that's, um...

[He scrunches up his face a little as he tries to do the math quickly.]

Three months and about two weeks, I think? I think for the people who got here first, it's been four months. And I'm ten.

[He told someone he was twenty as a joke, once, but that guy didn't really seem to appreciate it, so Quark decides not to try and repeat it here.]

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[devoutish]

Your family come along with you?

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[averytinyparticle]

No. Don't got any.

[No point in not being straightforward, though Quark doesn't seem terribly bothered about it. He shrugs.]

My Grandpa's back home--but he just adopted me so I'd work for him. I don't really care that he's not here. Miss Luna's from my world, but she's not family or anything. We were just in the same place.

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[devoutish]

Mm. That's tough.

[He doesn't really sound overly sympathetic, but he at least sounds honest.]<./small>

Not on your own here though, right? The helpers took you in?

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[averytinyparticle]

It is what it is. No point in being upset about something I can't change.

[He is really upset about it, of course--at least sometimes, when he thinks too hard about it--but it has nothing to do with being here in this place.]

Yeah. I'm on my own sometimes, and I was a lot at the beginning, but I know how to take care of myself. Everyone gets worried though. I do stay with others a lot, now. Especially Mr. House.

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[devoutish]

Mr. House of the New Jersey gang?

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[averytinyparticle]

[Quark hesitates, looking both surprised and confused.]

The...New Jersey gang? I dunno anything about that. He hasn't told me. He did tell me once that he was doing favors for the mob, but I thought he was just joking around.

[Maybe he'll have to rethink that!]

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[devoutish]

Seems the type, doesn't he? But it's hard to tell in writing.