i_speak_softly | Sixty-Sixth Theory [Voice]

[Things have been remarkably normal for Don lately, a very tolerable mix of the mildly bad and the mildly good. On the one hand, he's coming down with a case of his annual flu, and he actually kind of misses his elf. On the other hand, his various lessons have been going well, he's enjoying the new toys Robert gave him for Christmas, and all the effort that went into creating the winter room has been entirely worth it.]

[In between keeping his hands and mind occupied, and lounging indolently just because he can for once, Don has made a habit of posing a random question over the journals every day. Today the low-grade fever is making it hard to think straight, so the question is a strange one:]

People. In Luceti. Are from different worlds. [Give him a minute, he's pretty sure he's going somewhere with this.] But. Some of us have a lot in common, in surprising ways. Who... Who in Luceti seems like, you know, like long-lost twins? Even if they maybe haven't met each other here yet.

Or. What combination of people here would just be... really interesting. I mean, if you put them together to make a new person. Who's different from anyone we already have.

[A long pause.]

I think I'm sick.

[He's going to. Um. Do something about that. Then he will be back to answer any comments.]

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I think I can get that part. You mean like from other universes? [Rogue's already been preparing him for the possibility, and he knows that Billy's from some kind of different other versions of his world.] Like a Bizarro world?

Yes.

[Please continue this train of thought.]

Well.. I kind of know there are people from other versions of my earth. But could that mean there are versions that are... like us, but evil? Or is that just too scifi for this place?

No, evil twins are... theoretically possible.

[His tone is mild - just entertaining a hypothetical.]

Theoretically. And they theoretically should have goatees, right? Even a turtle version? [Now he's just losing himself to silliness.]

[Don hesitates a moment - that doesn't sound biologically plausible at all - but okay, he's up for a game of silly.]

How else would we know they're evil?