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Recap: Dani, an apparently typical 21st century twenty-something barista and amateur movie critic, traveled through time to the year 1947 when she decided to partner up with Aurora, a World War Two codebreaker. A doppelganger of Dani was created and she is time traveling with Beth, a British Navy secretary. Beth says her true occupation is that of a spy, not a secretary.
These travelers wish to locate places in time where they can find 13 authors of dystopian novels. Collecting a biological sample from one of these authors cancels the effect that their book's setting was redesigning the Earths found in 13 parallel universes into a real-life dystopia. Each of the time travelers know that if a person collects all 13 samples, they gain a god-like power to shape and rule over these 13 worlds in any way that they desire.
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Year: 2007- Timeline A
Place: At the door of Haruki Murakami's house, Toyko, Japan, 2007
Dialogue: Possession C and Haruki Murakami
Time: These events are occurring after Dani, Aurora, and C time jumped from 2088 to 2007
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Possession C: "Let me tell you my story over again. This time more slowly."
Haruki Murakami: "That's music to my ears. Make it like improv jazz rather than big band."
C: "I'm from the future, the year 2088. Currently, we're in the year 2007."
Haruki: "I agree it's 2007. I can even believe that you think you're from 2088."
C: "In the Japan of 2088, there are two classes - slaves, and slave-holders."
Haruki: "It doesn't seem probable. No artists, bankers, politicians, et cetera?"
C: "I wasn't born a slave. I was captured and made into a slave at age 18."
Haruki: "You said earlier that part was like a secret. Also, that you're Chinese."
C: "My core personality is to be dominant. If anything, I could own slaves."
Haruki: "I will say you are not making yourself seem a more palatable person."
C: "You have servants and I can be an effective overseer of all their labor."
Haruki: "Here you become illogical. You want me to hire you without payment."
C: "In exchange for food, board, and every tenth day off, I'll work for free."
Haruki: "At a slower metronome setting, this story version was easier to hear."
C: "As a demonstration I'll supervise the efforts performed by your butler."
Haruki: "One day only. By midnight I'll make a final determination about you."135Please respect copyright.PENANAJ1njPES7wB