Year: 1947
Place: At the door of the residence of Aurora Jones, Edinburgh, Scotland
Dialogue: Aurora and Rob
Time: Two days after Aurora told Dani what happened to "Daniel" and the 13 other Earths
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Aurora: "Why are you here, Rob? It will be about a week before I no longer live in Scotland."
Rob: "I'm here to tell you that the Royal Navy has reassigned me, Aurora. I'm not a guard."
A: "Oh. Stop standing at the door and come in. I hope they didn't find out how you helped us."
Rob: "They never will. No one knows it, but Dani and you served us all well. How is she?"
Aurora: "Dani can walk with help. She turned 38 today too! She said she was in her twenties!"
Rob: "I can't get over that Brie's going to get away with murder. Other Dani bled to death."
Aurora: "We can't let the authorities examine the other Dani's body. Again, Dani is 38 years old."
Rob: "Okay, Dani lied, move on. I suppose Brie will be going up the river for a long time?"
Aurora: "Correct, military charges for going AWOL. Orwell said he would bring assault charges."
Rob: "More good news: Her voice box's been permanently damaged. It's not going to heal."
Aurora: "Rumors say she is not grasping sign language. No one will believe her tale regardless."
Rob: "I sense you feeling guilty. Come on, it doesn't matter if she could speak. She's a liar."
Aurora: "What I said to the psychiatrist - Brie leaked. Likely why you were reassigned as a guard."
R: "Right-o who cares? I'm going to be a spy again in London. I got credit for capturing her."
Aurora: "Know what irks me? I realize now what changed after I had talked to the psychiatrist."
R: "What changed for you? I'm the one who was bumped down to guard duty."
Aurora: Guys at the dockyards then starting to act significantly squirrely, so much so that I quit."
Rob: "Forget about what Brie did. Besides, she's also been accused of stealing the laptop."
Aurora: "I know now when you left us at the docks, it's because you thought of a way to swipe it."
Rob: "They never found out I stole the one bound for D.C. You got all three at this time?"
Aurora: "Right, and we will be going to 2088 to find Dani better doctors. To a non-slave country."
Rob: "It's odd that some countries would revert back to that. Well, is there anything else?"
Aurora: "Do this: When you come home to visit your dad, can you check in on my brother too?"
Rob: "Sure, guys like us stick together. I heard you got him a job at the factory you left."
Aurora: "Yes. Dani and I will start time jumping again. Our time travel created many anomalies."
Rob: "It's lucky that Dani, besides English, only knew how to write in French. Lucky for us."
Aurora: "Yep, at the dockyards there are still codebreakers, but none of them can read French."
Rob: "That, and though she can speak a bit of Japanese, she doesn't know how to write it."
Aurora: "Correct, so they had to call me in. Thank you for making the referral, sweetie."
Rob: "Last, what did you kept mumbling and repeating when you got back from the past?"
Aurora: "Macau-Cyprus-Cuba. New Zealand-Madagascar-Galapagos. Sri Lanka-Robben Island-Easter Island. Places we will travel to throughout time to correct the anomalies that we created."
Rob: "That's a lot of mumbo-jumbo places to memorize. What kind of country is Macau?"
Aurora: "Macau is part of China in the future. An author, Ge Fei, will write of a tourism dystopia -"
Rob: "- I don't need to know, forget it. Is there anything else you want to tell me, Aurora?"
Aurora: "Yes, we have jumped once to 2007 to see if doctors had the technology to assist Dani."
Rob: "They didn't. You already told me. Yet, you want to spill your guts on anything else?"
Aurora: "It turns out Dani fathered a child there in 2007. She must be virile, as I'm pregnant too."
R: "You must not be far along, but I knew it! Have fun in your travels. I'll miss you, Aurora."
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Author's Note
Hope you enjoyed this story of agency, deception, dominance, in addition to self-identity.
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