Iman winces at the moodshift, great job, pats on the back all around. It seems like important information - fascinating, too, but in a really awful way. Can this brother of hers really cross through dimensions, just like that? Tear universes apart, receive information from between worlds? That would be immense, that would be - well. It would her life's work and her aspirations, accomplished with what sounds like no effort at all, by some jerk.
It's a little confounding.
Fortunately, that fuels her capacity toward protective sympathy. "Hey," she says as comfortingly as she can manage. "The multiverse is a big place. And this corner is, well, I want to say it's defended. I guess we don't know how well yet. I'm working on figuring that particular shit out right now." She glances up at the Doctor. "And something tells me I am not the only one."
Not a perfect consolation. God damn, consoling people is hard. How do people do this on a regular basis? Not wanting to sugarcoat anything, she says, "I mean, granted, from the sound of it, the Doc and I did both kind of... come through on purpose," she says. "Or at least after some mild provocation. But. Consider this." She smiles the smile of the scientific method. "If this Rift is making informed decisions, and I'd put money down that it is - which is a mind-blowing hypothesis all by itself, but stay with me here - why would it bring you here, and go to the energy-conserving effort of bringing you back to life, if it had any plans to let your piece-of-work sibling in here so he could undo it?"
So, working with a lot of variables and suppositions here. Not very scientific. But fuck it, right? Callie's feelings are more important than rock-solid theorizing, which is a series of words that has never before happened to Iman before.
"Even if he did get through," she says, a bit brashly, "we'd protect you. Right?" Back up to the Doctor. Help me out here, owl man. "I mean, you've got this incredible piece of architectural whatever-the-hell, I have approximately several thousands questions you ask you about this by the way, when, you know, we can pencil it in. Surely you've got... means of defense, or whatever."
At some point she should probably mention Satan. These people are both pretty new. But now would be a terrible time for that.
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It's a little confounding.
Fortunately, that fuels her capacity toward protective sympathy. "Hey," she says as comfortingly as she can manage. "The multiverse is a big place. And this corner is, well, I want to say it's defended. I guess we don't know how well yet. I'm working on figuring that particular shit out right now." She glances up at the Doctor. "And something tells me I am not the only one."
Not a perfect consolation. God damn, consoling people is hard. How do people do this on a regular basis? Not wanting to sugarcoat anything, she says, "I mean, granted, from the sound of it, the Doc and I did both kind of... come through on purpose," she says. "Or at least after some mild provocation. But. Consider this." She smiles the smile of the scientific method. "If this Rift is making informed decisions, and I'd put money down that it is - which is a mind-blowing hypothesis all by itself, but stay with me here - why would it bring you here, and go to the energy-conserving effort of bringing you back to life, if it had any plans to let your piece-of-work sibling in here so he could undo it?"
So, working with a lot of variables and suppositions here. Not very scientific. But fuck it, right? Callie's feelings are more important than rock-solid theorizing, which is a series of words that has never before happened to Iman before.
"Even if he did get through," she says, a bit brashly, "we'd protect you. Right?" Back up to the Doctor. Help me out here, owl man. "I mean, you've got this incredible piece of architectural whatever-the-hell, I have approximately several thousands questions you ask you about this by the way, when, you know, we can pencil it in. Surely you've got... means of defense, or whatever."
At some point she should probably mention Satan. These people are both pretty new. But now would be a terrible time for that.