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[private]

[devoutish]

Do you trust her enough to give her information yourself?

[private]

[brokethefirst]

If it were to come up in proper context? I would, yes.

Though I don't know how much she can actually do with foreign information. Most of it is simply fact-checking or asking her questions based off of what we find or experience.

[private]

[devoutish]

Fucking unbelievable.

Not you - the rest of it. I understand it, but it's a lot to take in, yeah?

[private]

[brokethefirst]

...Yes, it is.

I'm sorry. I know it can be overwhelming. But take the information at your own pace, okay? No one will blame you otherwise - we've all had to go through it, in our various ways, so... we can all sympathize, I suppose.

If you don't mind me asking... what year was it, the last you can remember? You mentioned the telegraph was in use.

[private]

[devoutish]

This pace is fine.

[It may be a lot, but he's doing his best to make sure it doesn't get to be too much to handle at once.]

It's 1922, for me.

[private]

[brokethefirst]

Ah, that would make sense. That would mean the Great War just ended a few years ago, right? [It wouldn't be called a "World War", let alone "World War 1", if she remembers correctly. Granted, all she can really pull up is the American side of things. But it's better than nothing.]

[private]

[devoutish]

Mmhm. You learn about that in the future?

[private]

[brokethefirst]

At least in my future, most people do, yes. It was a prominent turning point of quite a few world economies and general powers for the twentieth century. Plus... well, given how many people went to fight and never returned, it feels wrong not to keep remembering them for what they fought for, doesn't it?

[private]

[devoutish]

What year are you from?

[private]

[brokethefirst]

...2074.

[Surprise. Her hesitancy should be enough to show that, yes, she knows that sounds completely ridiculous to a man from over 150 years prior.]

Given the surroundings, I, um.... I have suspicions this isn't exactly the past. Or, if it is, some things have to have drastically changed. But I could be wrong.

[private]

[devoutish]

Rogers said 2050.

[And there's no disbelief in his voice over that, or over when Luna says she's from - neither are anywhere close to the weirdest thing he's heard today.]

Mm. I'm glad you're still remembering. The war's the distant past for you, it's personal history for me.

[private]

[brokethefirst]

Yes. I... well, I would have been growing up during this branch of the 50's, so this whole situation is a bit of a strange paradox. This isn't the Earth I remember from then, anyway.

[Never mind that that whole statement is a complicated lie. But the idea still stands. The snowfall isn't tainted with ash or debris, animal care was still being dispensed regularly, the sky wasn't permanently blotted out from the sun.]

Anyway... I take it you were involved in the war, by some means? I don't mean to breach too much on the subject if it's uncomfortable.

[private]

[devoutish]

[Parallel universes. Huh. He'll have to think more about that later.]

I was a soldier. British army.