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DR. STRANGE. ([personal profile] portalling) wrote in [community profile] faderift 2023-02-18 11:29 pm (UTC)

“Eh,” Strange says, eloquently.

It’s hard to get comfortable on this lumpy couch cushion on the floor, the filling spilling out of it, but he readjusts. Shifts and fidgets a little. “You ever been in a social situation so awkward that you actually welcome the moment something attacks? It’s a nice distraction. Because you know what you’re supposed to do with an attacking eyeball. It’s very clear-cut.”

He doesn’t particularly want to dump his relationship issues on this Youth™, but considering how Ellie knows what it’s like to open your eyes and find yourself in another reality, several times over —

“Did you hear about the Blip, while we were in New York?” he asks, suddenly. “People vanishing out of existence for five years, then suddenly popping back. I was one of them. That was what made it strangest, I think. I blinked and half a decade had gone by. I remembered her as single, but that’s a whole long-term relationship in the interim. If she hadn’t moved on before, she certainly had by then.”

Multiversal struggles, am I right?

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