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[niko_tesla]

A man steps through the door, carrying a box and accompanied by a pigeon

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[tanyadams]

On her way to the door, Tanya pauses at the sight of the man, performing what is called a 'double-take'.

Nah, it can't be... Right?

She is staring a bit.

[niko_tesla]

There is a small bit of staring on Tesla's part as well.

She reminds him of someone he once knew, someone he hasn't seen in a very long time, and he studies her to see whether she could be the same. One never knows, in here.

[tanyadams]

"Ah... professor Tesla?" It seems to be him. And someone who works with electricity, too.

[niko_tesla]

"Not a professor," he says, with a faint nod, "but Tesla, all the same. Have we met?"

She doesn't sound like the woman he knew. But that's not necessarily a guarantee.

[tanyadams]

"Ah, no... probably we are not even from the same version of Earth, but... you are famous, in my world?" She is trying to not fangirl too much over the man who started the age of electricity.

[niko_tesla]

"Famous, and not infamous?" he asks. "Though either is better than forgotten--you are not Serbian. May I ask your name?"

He has been away from conversation for a while. It winds up like this.

[tanyadams]

She does not mind, Tesla is known for being eccentric, so anything others might find unusual, she finds just interesting. "No, I am not. I am German."

[niko_tesla]

"German," he says. "Yes. From the industrial region? You don't look like you're from the farmland, but then, you could be from there originally."

[tanyadams]

"I mwas born and raised in Frankfurt, moved to Berlin to study, and I am back in Frankfurt right now." She smiles and nods. "I am a city girl. Mostly."

[niko_tesla]

"I grew up on a farm," he says, "but I left it for the city. I don't think I could go back to living somewhere so isolated again, but then, cities are capsules of isolation, row upon row of them, stacked like bricks."

[tanyadams]

"I like the suburbs. Houses, yards, and neighbours that you can stop to talk with, and get together with on weekends." Tanya gives a small, wistful sigh.

[niko_tesla]

"I like New York," he says. "So vibrant, so alive, so busy--always in motion, like life, like electricity. And living in a hotel, nothing to worry about, none of the concerns of daily life."

[tanyadams]

"Must be interesting. Berlin was very active, but not so much. Or at least did not feel so agitated, just vibrant like every big city." She smiles and nods, directing a curious look at the machine Tesla has on the table.

[niko_tesla]

"I've never been to Berlin," he says. "I worked in Paris for a time, and that was as close as I got, and it wasn't very close at all. The old cities are different from the American ones, they feel and sound different, they have a different heartbeat."

The machine is something of a battery, made of glass and wires and magnetism, and it has switches on it.

[tanyadams]

"True... I might visit the United States, if I have a chance." She nods, taking a half step closer. "Pardon me... what is this machine?" She might not be a physicist, but Tesla's gadgets are the stuff of legends in her world.

[niko_tesla]

"It is a device for... for applying magnetic electricity to the human body," he says, gesturing toward it. "It is cleansing, and soothing, revitalizing. Very pleasant."