003 - post mortem

[mayitlastforeve]

[Action, outside 2238 Stevens Rd. Open.]

[After Naal's first nuclear apocalypse can only come one thing - Naal's first regain. Naal has received the impression that regains just kind of mysteriously happen overnight rather than coming in the mail, so she's quite surprised to find a package with her name on it. She used to get mail by courier or

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Action: 2238 Stevens

[after_thesky]

[Sarah Jane is somewhat surprised by the change, but it not particularly troubled by her new appearance]

Naal?

[after_thesky]

Not entirely. I never married, Luke is adopted. But we're a family all the same.

[mayitlastforeve]

Oh. ...could you not conceive?

[To her, 'marriage' is a foreign concept anyway and has no bearing on adoption.]

[after_thesky]

No... I had never really planned on having children before Luke came along. He needed a family though, and it was the best decision I ever made.

[mayitlastforeve]

Oh. [All strange things to her. But the words, at least, she can understand.]

I'm sorry you were separated...

[after_thesky]

I miss him, but... I wouldn't want him to be here.

[mayitlastforeve]

Really? Do things like before happen often? Everything can be destroyed and restored like it was never gone?

[after_thesky]

It's not the first time. There was a lot of damage reset back in April, but what just happened was a bit more extreme.

[mayitlastforeve]

Even so... I wish my friends were here. Kiel, at least. Even if I am dead and they are living... [Selfish, selfish.] I didn't think something like this would happen. [This half-reprieve that has severed that neat, dichotomous path she had laid for herself.]

[after_thesky]

Wait, you're...?

[Very little surprises Sarah Jane any more, but that did the trick quite nicely]

[mayitlastforeve]

Already dead. [Well, only figuratively, but she sees little enough difference in it.]

[after_thesky]

Well, I should know by now I've never quite encountered everything.

[mayitlastforeve]

I think... that my world is very different from yours.

[after_thesky]

That wouldn't surprise me in the least. THere are so many different worlds out there, after all.

[mayitlastforeve]

We knew of only four... surface, under, sky, nether.

[after_thesky]

[Well, now she's interested]

What are they like, in your home?