[ Of course she asks. They're sounding boards, partners. It's a theory that unsettles her more than the others, if only because the emotional fallout of such a revelation β World War III, the complete eradication of the nations they'd fought to defend β has lingered all these weeks since they woke up from the other reality. It isn't hope or dread she feels at the possibility it wasn't entirely true; she doesn't know what to feel, not without more information.
But she wishes he were here to anchor her in it all the same. Just as he'd done in the dreams. ]
We can't even trust that what we saw was real.
[ But she's no stranger to the lies spun by propaganda, governments determined to rewrite the past in their own narrative. She shouldn't be surprised. ]
Atomic warfare was new in 1945 but we understood what it could do. [ And the consequences of detonating warheads on a civilian target. It still makes her sick. ] Even if they saw it coming, even if they took shelter below ground, do you believe there's a chance humanity could have survived an assault on that scale? And then eluded detection after all this time?
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But she wishes he were here to anchor her in it all the same. Just as he'd done in the dreams. ]
We can't even trust that what we saw was real.
[ But she's no stranger to the lies spun by propaganda, governments determined to rewrite the past in their own narrative. She shouldn't be surprised. ]
Atomic warfare was new in 1945 but we understood what it could do. [ And the consequences of detonating warheads on a civilian target. It still makes her sick. ] Even if they saw it coming, even if they took shelter below ground, do you believe there's a chance humanity could have survived an assault on that scale? And then eluded detection after all this time?