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[shotapope]

[There is a map of Europe drawn out, obviously copied carefully from a book. It is properly labeled with the names of countries. Underneath the year "A.D. 20XX" is written, since Alessandro could not find an exact date for the creation of the map. Next to it is a rough map of the same area, but with different country lines, and different names. Underneath it is labeled as "A.D. 3060". Below both images is a merged one; the first map drawn out carefully with the second map superimposed using light colours so the regions of the other can be seen through it.

Below the maps are a few simple sentence written out just as carefully.]

What does your world look like? What kind of countries are there? What are their names?

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[huntersdaughter]

I'll be by in a bit!

[and a bit later, after wandering the three floors and realizing she should've asked where he was (more specifically) she finally finds him]

Hey! I finally found where the atlases are.

[shotapope]

[He looks up and over from a table just covered in atlases and encyclopedias.]

I-I should have p-probably said wh-where.... It's nice to s-see you.

[huntersdaughter]

[shrugs] I could've asked, but I didn't remember how big the place is.

[takes a seat across from him, setting the book she'd picked up on the way down on the table]

Learning a lot?

[shotapope]

[He nods.]

Q-quite a bit, though... I'm not sure h-how much of it I'm a-actually retaining.

[huntersdaughter]

Well, at least all the books are still here for you to review later. I mean, if you wanted to.

Also, good note-taking helps. [nods, since she's good at the research part]

[shotapope]

I g-guess.... I've f-found mostly what I was c-curious about.

[He wasn't the best of students, and was usually over burdened with studies.]

H-have you ever l-looked at something that was s-so different from what you were f-familiar with, that it was h-hard to figure out how one could have e-ever become the other?

[huntersdaughter]

I guess I never thought about anything like that. I was raised into expecting the unexpected, so there hasn't been too much to surprise me.

[curiously] What's so different for you?

[shotapope]

M-most the world everyone is familiar with, i-is dead or g-gone or somewhere I-I've never heard of....

[huntersdaughter]

Oh.

Are you sure it's the same world? I've heard that some of these people are from other worlds. Ones that are really close to the same, but just a bit different.

[shotapope]

I-it matches up what we kn-know about the past, so... I don't think it's d-different, at least, n-not for that time. The m-maps matched in t-terrain too.

[huntersdaughter]

What year is it for you, then?

[shotapope]

It's the year Three thousand and s-sixty.

[huntersdaughter]

I'm from two thousand and ten, that's still a lot of time to mess things up, I guess.

We've got an apocalyptic battle starting, Alec is from a world where people are hunted... [shrugs] Things change. Let's hope that the people don't change too much.

[shotapope]

[Blinks a little bit, is so very unused to hearing his name but referring to someone else.]

Th-the Apocalypse is going on wh-where you're from?

[huntersdaughter]

[that's why she asked about the name thing]

Well, pretty close? Lucifer is walking around and Michael is trying to put his action into play.

[shotapope]

H-How terrifying! W-will the world be o-okay?

[huntersdaughter]

I think it'll pull through. [she doesn't really know and won't be finding out anytime soon either]

A lot of people are pretty fond of the place. [smiles] It's got all their stuff.

I found the Popemobile. [taps the book she brought] If you're curious and ready to change from the end of the world to bullet proof bubbles, you know, for a conversational topic. [smiles again]

[shotapope]

Oh y-yes! I'm c-curious about it.

[huntersdaughter]

[nods, and opens the book flipping through the pages until she can show him this photo of the vehicle in use]

See? The back part is bullet proof. He just chills back there.

[shotapope]

[Can't help but laugh a little bit, it's just ridiculous looking.]

D-does that mean it's s-safe back there?

[huntersdaughter]

From bullets? Yep. I think he just rides in it for parades though.

[shotapope]

Oh. It d-does seem like a n-nice way to t-travel, at least p-people couldn't shoot you wh-while in it.

[huntersdaughter]

Which is helpful.