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It isn't what you're thinking.

It's just very difficult to explain.

（ aka: do you think canon ever got into this shit? lmao, no. ）

Oh. That's. That makes sense. Andy asked me if your scrolls worked the way my qiankun bag works, and I could only tell her no, but it got me wondering. Qiankun arrays extend space, though I couldn't tell you the exact workings either. Do they borrow the space from somewhere else? Does the space exist somewhere else? Is it from another realm of existence entirely?

Sorry sorry, you know how my mind gets about these things!

You are frequently inquisitive, yes.

[He rolls his eyes, smiling.]

I like understanding how things work. I need to ask Viveca for more textbooks like Gwen's. I finished them and the engineering ones from E23-B are still too complicated for me.

I've always liked having a problem to work through. keeps my mind busy.

I understand.

（ itachi is not usually one to volunteer... much of anything about himself, actually, but after a long moment — ）

I was much the same in my youth. I had completed reading my clan's library by the year I turned ten. The knowledge in books had seemed like one of the only forms that could be gained without bloodshed, then.

[He remembers of course, Itachi's "love" of reading. It's one of the only things Itachi has ever volunteered as something he enjoys.]

Was there something you liked learning about more than other things?

History.

[It strikes a chord within him and he wonders if Itachi had said that before. Maybe he has or maybe it just feels fitting.]

I was always more into the arts myself. I've found myself interested in the histories of various worlds here on the Ximilia though.

Sometimes I wonder if the world I'm from is the same one as Gwen and so many others, just some thousand years in the past. It doesn't really matter of course, but it's a fun puzzle to unravel.

There are many people here from divergent variants of Earth.

Changing our regrets creates a 'branch' reality. I doubt it is the only such event that can.

The "multiverse." That's what Gwen called it.

There's nothing about any of that where I'm from, but then it's pretty obvious there's more to the universe than I ever could have imagined.

I mean here we are among the stars even as we speak.

Have you ever looked outside of one of the windows without a simulated viewscreen? There are no stars.

（ he's being a pedant.

practically his favourite thing. ）

Edited 2022-11-13 22:59 (UTC)