[Ah yes, Hell Asshole Two. He makes a face, shrugs his one free shoulder, makes a vague ennnh noise—]
I can try. [Give him a second. ...Okay,] So, that guy was from the religious cult, yeah? And he wanted to get all of us, the people who can shift, to learn all the necessary fun facts and shift ourselves into the timeline where we could find this supposed terrorist who was going to drop nukes on, you know, the whole planet.
[A beat, because he knows how it sounds, and it's going to get wackier before it gets less so,] In the other timelines, Asshole Two's cult are the ones who set off the bombs... to try and kill six billion people just to get that one guy, apparently. So... high stakes, I guess.
[Ridiculous. He sighs and flops back down from his elbow, letting his cheek smush into the mattress for a moment. How is this his life, Charles. How did these things really happen.] And I can't believe I'm getting to this third, but he also had to make sure he was, like, born. His parents were in there with us, just... pre-parenthood.
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I can try. [Give him a second. ...Okay,] So, that guy was from the religious cult, yeah? And he wanted to get all of us, the people who can shift, to learn all the necessary fun facts and shift ourselves into the timeline where we could find this supposed terrorist who was going to drop nukes on, you know, the whole planet.
[A beat, because he knows how it sounds, and it's going to get wackier before it gets less so,] In the other timelines, Asshole Two's cult are the ones who set off the bombs... to try and kill six billion people just to get that one guy, apparently. So... high stakes, I guess.
[Ridiculous. He sighs and flops back down from his elbow, letting his cheek smush into the mattress for a moment. How is this his life, Charles. How did these things really happen.] And I can't believe I'm getting to this third, but he also had to make sure he was, like, born. His parents were in there with us, just... pre-parenthood.