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[fistsofchange]

[This was unfamiliar technology to Lin, so before she tried making a post, she read the manual from start to finish. This "smartphone" was MUCH more complicated than the ham radio in the interceptor, but she eventually figured it out.]

Hi, I'm Bai Lin. I have a question. I've got that most of us are from different worlds. It's weird, but any time I talk to someone it becomes more and more obvious.

But I'm noticing a trend from talking to you all.

How many people here DON'T come from places where a nuclear war destroyed most of the world's population before you were born?

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[fistsofchange]

So this might be a weird question but...

[She wasn't super educated, and she wasn't always the fastest thinker, but she wasn't stupid. Several things he had said weren't quite adding up.]

Are you, uh...super old?

[founderinglight]

2040 plus, yes. It's no great secret.

[fistsofchange]

SUPER old.

So what does that make you? Did you drink an immortality elixir or...?

[founderinglight]

Oh, no, nothing like that. I am extremely mortal, I just persisted as a sort of ancestral spirit for quite some amount of time.

[fistsofchange]

OH! So you’re a ghost. I see.

[Accurate or not, it was an answer that fit into her world view.]

[founderinglight]

Former ghost, thank you, I'm positively mortal and corporeal these days.

[fistsofchange]

Neat. How'd you manage that?

[founderinglight]

It just sort of happened when I arrived here. Not complaining, I missed food.

[And hands. and a lot of things.]

[fistsofchange]

I hope this isn't the afterlife, then. There's still too much I wanna do.

[founderinglight]

I can assure you it's not. Mostly by virtue of some timeline shenanigans that don't make particularly much sense to an outsider, admittedly.

[fistsofchange]

Until something changes my mind, I'll trust you on that one.