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[anewlanguage]

Every now and then, this place just outdoes itself.

[Today he's bitter about it, but Cain always adapts before long.]

Check in, all of you who've still got your hands or mouths or the ability to tap Morse Code.


[PRIVATE to DEAN WINCHESTER:]

Hey. Feel like home yet?


[PRIVATE to CASSANDRA:]

You all right?


[PRIVATE to BARBARA:]

You, you especially, check in.

Comments

[private]

[routemistress]

darling, right now I can barely make it to the loo on my own.

[That's a yes, she'd be glad to have you there.]

Re: [private]

[anewlanguage]

Let's bring him to you, then.

[It might be safer that way in any case.]

[private]

[routemistress]

be gentle if you can. Jack's still in there, whatever else is, and he's already prone to guilting himself half to death.

Re: [private]

[anewlanguage]

I know. I'll keep an eye on him, you do the talking. I don't blame him, but I don't think that's going to matter.

[private]

[routemistress]

no, it's not, poor love.

and I thought I had evil alter ego problems.

Re: [private]

[anewlanguage]

...Guess there's an advantage to already being my evil alterego.

[private]

[routemistress]

[She's been texting with her eyes mostly closed, unmoving except her breathing, but that makes her splutter with sudden laughter and she opens her eyes to look fondly at him through the comm screen.]

You know Babs and me are doing a project on alternate Gothams?

We should go find out. For research.

Re: [private]

[anewlanguage]

What's this project? Sell me on it.

[private]

[routemistress]

[When she's talking about projects, some of the tired falls away and her eyes sparkle.]

Database of all the alternate Gothams. I mean, look 'ow many we've 'ad just on this boat - I'm not sure any two of you ever quite come from the same one. We thought we could use lists of who's what and who's not in them all.

I thought maybe you and me could tackle some of the fieldwork.

[private]

[anewlanguage]

Huh. Yeah, sounds like something I could get into. What makes you think me and Gordon aren't from the same place?

[private]

[routemistress]

I think you two actually are. But the Bruce we 'ad 'ere wasn't, Selina was from somewhere else again, we've 'ad two different Stephs just while you've been 'ere.

And those're just the worlds more or less like your version. I asked Jack if 'e'd ever 'eard of you or Cass and 'e 'adn't - but 'e does 'ave a Ra's al Ghul. And Derek's from a future where Bruce didn't 'ave all 'is kids. I want to map all the variations.