EJ003X | audio | night 011

[littlemissfutility]

Hello?

[ The voice is whispery right now, but it still sounds young and female. Enough talk, and some of the vowels might sound just a touch southern. ]

Is there anybody out there? Dawn? Is Dawn here?

[ A pause. ]

If someone's out there, I need help. And if whoever's out there doesn't wanna help - I'm armed.

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[ichoosefight]

...Haiti, I think.

[ She can't exactly look it up, but it sounds right. ]

Corpses brought back to life? Is that what you mean?

[littlemissfutility]

Weird.

[ Sorry, Haiti. ]

Yeah. You know, the reason the world ended.

[ichoosefight]

[ Well, that answers that question. ]

No, no zombies, or walkers, that I know of.

And, uh...

Have you heard of the idea of alternate universes?

[littlemissfutility]

Yeah?

[ichoosefight]

That's kind of what we're dealing with here.

I mean, for one thing, there was no zombie apocalypse in my world. And yours can't happen to it, because "zombie" is a very common word and a popular monster for the horror genre.

You're from Atlanta, Georgia? I'm from Gotham, New Jersey. It's not a local thing.

[littlemissfutility]

It makes sense, I guess. But it doesn't explain how we got here in the first place.

[ Also: ]

...Gotham like Batman?

[ichoosefight]

Yeah. Your world has Batman? People keep thinking I'm crazy or something.

[littlemissfutility]

I mean...kind of.

[ichoosefight]

...Is he, like, fictional? SS5 said that her world has a fictional Superman, and they haven't made any kind of alien contact.

[ Batman and Superman make sense to write about, but... is there a fictional Steph? Maybe? ]

[littlemissfutility]

Yeah. He's imaginary, like Science Dog.

Sorry.

[ichoosefight]

...That's so weird.

But you thought of him when I said "Gotham". Is Gotham fictional too?

[littlemissfutility]

Yeah. I mean...maybe there's a place called Gotham in New Jersey, but if there is, it's not a big city full of - of evil clowns and people who dress up like penguins and stuff.

[ Congrats, we've officially run through her Batman knowledge. ]

[ichoosefight]

[ . . . ]

Man, my universe *sucks!* What the hell?

I mean, I already knew that, but still.

[ She huffs a sigh, and moves on. She's not sure exactly how she feels about all of this, so she's just going to not worry about it. ]

That's crazy, that one world can be another world's fiction. It's not like it doesn't happen in stories, but I never really thought about it before.

[littlemissfutility]

Yeah.

[ Maybe everyone's fictional to someone, and you just don't know who yet. It's bizarre to think of. ]

If it helps, my universe kind of sucks, too.

[ichoosefight]

I wouldn't say it helps, but I appreciate the thought.

I'm sorry about the world ending.

[littlemissfutility]

Sorry about the Joker.

...Is he really that crazy?

[ Look, if you get a chance to ask these kinds of things, you kind of have to. If Carl's still alive, she can tell him about this someday. ]

[ichoosefight]

I can't imagine anything you've heard is worse than what he's actually done. And I'm a pretty imaginative person.