voidtreckernet | Imagination 21 -Standard to every car *after* the Q&A is ICly over

I- I don't know what anyone else outside this carriage asked and I haven't heard anyone over the ICPs, but I- [Think, Eva. Now's not the time to be anything but rational, and maybe it's too soon, maybe it's not. She doesn't know. but she's never really been one to sit around and be helpless. She is, however, one to react to things, and that's what she's doing: Reacting.

Those who know her well can detect the banked helpless fury and frustration in her voice. Those in the Standard Car will see it as Eva slowly loses her cool while trying to keep it together for the sake of this.]

I think we need a train meeting? Don't know where -here in Standard where the computer is so we have a central database for everything?- but we should probably have one. Soon maybe? I don't know.

I- All I know is that whatever it said about time is false. We have proof amongst us it is. [And with that, she hangs up and goes to sit down and very much face in hands.]

(OOC: Anyone who wants to hijack this and get trainwide talking going is more welcome to do so! Same with those in Standard Car who want to threadjack stuff as Eva's in zero position to do anything other than face in hands.)

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[When Eva first noted that Raven was coming with tea, she was a bit surprised, but certainly not about to refuse. By the time she arrives, Yuume's taken a seat though- standing in the carriage gets uncomfortable after a bit.

Eva gets a sympathetic smile in any case.] Liquid gold? Sarcastically, or genuinely..?

[In any case-] Thank you for bringing that, neh? I think it's exactly what was needed...

[Raven hadn't actually expected anyone with Eva, but she's not really surprised. The other mug is offered to Yuume wordlessly.]

I often find it soothing, so I figured it might help.

Thanks. It will.

[There's a small nod to Raven before Eva takes a good long, sip of it. Ahh.]Literally. Like, it's made from the Aogin plant, which is a subspecies of the Chanoki or Tea plant. The leaves are vibrant blue before harvest, and the tea itself shines like gold in the sun.

Thank you, [Yuume repeats, taking her mug and looking to Eva.] Ah...is that so though...it sounds like a beautiful plant, though it's strange to think of something blue creating gold tea...

Colors and light can do interesting things.

[It was Raven's attempt at being social. She really wasn't one for words.]

I prefer herbal teas myself, or what's known as 'white' teas. Mostly because I don't drink it for the caffeine.

[To be fair, she's really not necessarily here to be social though. More concerned about what has Eva so distraught.]

Yeah, and it's the way it's grown and processed too, though I can't say I know much about that. [Lies; she knows more about it than she's letting on, but no one's here for a lecture on the plant.] All I know is that I enjoy the taste of tea.

[[Maybe she should try and get one of the plants some time. Someone on the train is bound to know how to process tea leaves, right? As it is, her hands tighten around the mug.]

It's a good way to steady oneself. Even if the Train has to be wrong.

I'll shamefully admit that I tend toward coffee quite often, [she laughs a bit weakly, scratching lightly at her cheek.] ...But at the very least for something like relaxing, herbal is definitely the best way to go about it...

[.......ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,,] ...I'm not sure that's the best way to focus on it however... [She slowly remarks, glancing at the tightening grip Eva has on her mug.]

What do you think the train has to be wrong about?

[Because Raven feels a need to get to the point. Start getting it out, so they can help each other all calm down.]

That, according to the train's blasted mating flight assumptions, people notice we're missing even if we are pulled out of the middle of things.

[Her voice is tight with anger and emotion.]

It's false, it has to be. We've people from the same worlds yet different points in time, and they haven't reported anything like this.

Ah... [Yes, she suspected...]

Hmmm. Thinking about it with what context we have...That doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong I don't think. Rather it would mean that chronologically speaking, anyone from after that point in time who claims to have seen someone on the train from a prior point, was returned to roughly that moment in time at some other moment from outside that realm.

As both people are on the train from their respective moments in 'in-universe time', technically while time carries forward, the absence exists. But... ...given that it's likely possible to make use of something like the train to return to that point, then theoretically, when we do just that, the absence would be 'retconned'.

In other words, it would go from a noted absence, to an absence that no longer exists.

[That's how she's theorizing it, anyway. The other option is simply a matter of multiple timelines, but she suspects that would draw Eva farther away from a calmer state.]

It is the easiest explanation that corrects for possible paradox.

Imagination 21 -Standard to every car after the Q&A is ICly over

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