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md_donighal) wrote2004-08-13 04:54 pm
md_donighal) wrote2004-08-13 04:54 pm
Arrival
Well, this is interesting.
I warped out of Personal Space normally enough, I thought, but I don't seem to have ended up where I was headed — or when I was. Most likely, that telluric disturbance threw my aim off, and the other end wound up... in another universe, seemingly.
It's 2004 on this Earth, but not the year of that number I remember living through. No novas. This world's space program is still working on a new space station, to replace ones that went down literal years before, so they couldn't have built anything like the Galatea.
Perhaps best of all, no Æon Society. Nobody here is looking for me.
And nobody here has any expectations of me, either. Nobody yet has recognized me as the nova I am. Perhaps here, I can be the man I was before Atlas Cross. If I still remember how.
I warped out of Personal Space normally enough, I thought, but I don't seem to have ended up where I was headed — or when I was. Most likely, that telluric disturbance threw my aim off, and the other end wound up... in another universe, seemingly.
It's 2004 on this Earth, but not the year of that number I remember living through. No novas. This world's space program is still working on a new space station, to replace ones that went down literal years before, so they couldn't have built anything like the Galatea.
Perhaps best of all, no Æon Society. Nobody here is looking for me.
And nobody here has any expectations of me, either. Nobody yet has recognized me as the nova I am. Perhaps here, I can be the man I was before Atlas Cross. If I still remember how.