That is the single dumbest and most obvious statement she has ever heard, so much so that it actually staggers another deviation out of her. One that immediately launches into a silent lecture. This Rosalind, thankfully, does not step back and does not begin speaking at length about the nature of Eternity and Probability. Instead she cocks a brow and nods.
The handshake is a bit of an odd experience, particularly considering the shearing of a duplicate off of herself. Ava's instability isn't catching but, for a moment, it's quite the opposite. She ends up entangled in this Rosalind's now but can hear some of the variation speaking about the nature of Eternity and how, of course, everything beyond this is everything else. That's literally how the concept of 'everything else' works. Did someone magical spout that nonsense?
Once they break contact that ability will fade, just like the shape of ranting Rosalind fades when it steps into sunlight, made blurry by the reality of now.
"A pleasure," she says and it is utterly truthful. She will have to circle back to Eternity and the details of Ava's assessment, but only once she's gathered her thoughts. She wouldn't want to snap and say something offensive, regardless of how much she detests the state of this place and all the answers she's been given thus far.
"No, the separation isn't noticeable until quite a number of them have cropped up," Rosalind explains. "I haven't yet been able to calculate when the collapse will happen, but the effects of that are...less than ideal."
She would still prefer not to elaborate on that, not when Ava might understand the deeper issue that causes the symptoms she will now, inevitably, get to witness. Instead, she presses on and, with a small frisson of urgency, asks another few questions:
"When you fold into yourself, do you retain the knowledge of the alternate potential states or are they subsumed? By the nature of that affliction and your title, I assume you are both living and dead at once? I cannot say I miss that part of entanglement, it was most disagreeable."
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The handshake is a bit of an odd experience, particularly considering the shearing of a duplicate off of herself. Ava's instability isn't catching but, for a moment, it's quite the opposite. She ends up entangled in this Rosalind's now but can hear some of the variation speaking about the nature of Eternity and how, of course, everything beyond this is everything else. That's literally how the concept of 'everything else' works. Did someone magical spout that nonsense?
Once they break contact that ability will fade, just like the shape of ranting Rosalind fades when it steps into sunlight, made blurry by the reality of now.
"A pleasure," she says and it is utterly truthful. She will have to circle back to Eternity and the details of Ava's assessment, but only once she's gathered her thoughts. She wouldn't want to snap and say something offensive, regardless of how much she detests the state of this place and all the answers she's been given thus far.
"No, the separation isn't noticeable until quite a number of them have cropped up," Rosalind explains. "I haven't yet been able to calculate when the collapse will happen, but the effects of that are...less than ideal."
She would still prefer not to elaborate on that, not when Ava might understand the deeper issue that causes the symptoms she will now, inevitably, get to witness. Instead, she presses on and, with a small frisson of urgency, asks another few questions:
"When you fold into yourself, do you retain the knowledge of the alternate potential states or are they subsumed? By the nature of that affliction and your title, I assume you are both living and dead at once? I cannot say I miss that part of entanglement, it was most disagreeable."