[ His attention is, ostensibly, on the game. He looks at Andy when he speaks, but he doesn't turn until the Queen says his name. ]
Hey.
[ He waves. It's a carefully casual, relaxed greeting. But his feelings are anything but that. The Queen being actually happy to see him is difficult to take. She's older than he remembers, meaning that she's from a different time stream than he is... and therefore, from a different parallel universe, as they split off with every decision, with every measured quantum state. So she is not "his" Queen, any more than Feather was.
(This is how he'll be able to sleep at night, "his" Queen in a place like this would be impossible to take. And then one night he'll wake up and realize that he has no way of knowing when he'll return from imaginary space relative to The Children's timeline, years might have passed, and so she might well be his Queen.)
More and more, she is resembling the woman whose image, whose tragic death has haunted his thoughts for over seventy years. A woman who, if he — if they all are successful, will cease to exist, at least like that.
He's careful to keep all of these thoughts out of his expression. He grins. ]
This takes me back. Our date at the amusement park, all those years ago. Do you remember?
[ Hyoubu don't talk about dating ten-year-olds!!! ]
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Hey.
[ He waves. It's a carefully casual, relaxed greeting. But his feelings are anything but that. The Queen being actually happy to see him is difficult to take. She's older than he remembers, meaning that she's from a different time stream than he is... and therefore, from a different parallel universe, as they split off with every decision, with every measured quantum state. So she is not "his" Queen, any more than Feather was.
(This is how he'll be able to sleep at night, "his" Queen in a place like this would be impossible to take. And then one night he'll wake up and realize that he has no way of knowing when he'll return from imaginary space relative to The Children's timeline, years might have passed, and so she might well be his Queen.)
More and more, she is resembling the woman whose image, whose tragic death has haunted his thoughts for over seventy years. A woman who, if he — if they all are successful, will cease to exist, at least like that.
He's careful to keep all of these thoughts out of his expression. He grins. ]
This takes me back. Our date at the amusement park, all those years ago. Do you remember?
[ Hyoubu don't talk about dating ten-year-olds!!! ]