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John R. Lunise
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On the subject of horses, allow me to ask you a question: When you were a child, what was the name of the bear family who taught valuable life lessons in easily digestible books?
Chances are, you answered 'the Berenstein Bears'. And, as it happens, that is incorrect; it is the Berenstain Bears.
How can everyone misremember this? How can something so patently true turn out to be terribly false? Some people will tell you it is the 'Mandela effect', named after a shockingly large number of people believed Nelson Mandela died in prison... but simple mass misremembering is a fairly boring answer, isn't it?
Consider instead a possibility physics allows us: that infinite universes exist, that every possibility spawns a diverging universe. Consider then that these different universes must be ruled by mathematics and science, that were were able to observe them, some concrete, tangible difference must exist to distinguish them.
Consider also that the laws of physics as we know them are, in some cases, simply and utterly inoperable. The quantum scale, for example. Or a naked singularity. It is, therefore, conceivable that through some quirk of physics, some awesome miracle... we have merged or shifted into a world in which horses never existed, and chocobos always did.
Impossible, you say, and perhaps rightly so... but I have no better explanation.

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Alicia Clover Lovely. We're not going to get homework on this, I hope? I have enough problems with modeling friction, let alone modeling transitions in subjective reality.

John R. Lunise It is slightly outside the scope of the syllabus.

Alicia Clover A small relief, I suppose. Though it would probably look odd to assign it to those that don't perceive the change.
Alicia Clover Is it unusual that this unsettles me? Even if it's not something I can control, even with everything you've said - and it makes sense, it does, but it...
Alicia Clover It scares me.

John R. Lunise Fear, especially in the face of the strange and the unknown, is natural and nothing to be ashamed of.
John R. Lunise Just so long as you do not allow it to rule you.

Alicia Clover I'm certainly going to try. I can't let something like this keep me down. I just need to think about how I'm going to handle myself and keep moving forward... probably.
Alicia Clover And I don't have my usual creative outlet to work with, either. It'd be nice to just set everything aside and deal with it later, but alas, it's not an option.

John R. Lunise Oh? What is the matter?

Alicia Clover Well, ordinarily I'm an actress. But Papa's new movie comes out next week, and we're not working on a project right now, so... I'm spinning my wheels a little bit.
Alicia Clover I mean, it's probably good for me to spend time around people and not be on set, but the distraction might be nice right about now.

John R. Lunise Why not gather some friends and film something just for fun?

Alicia Clover You know, that's not a bad idea. I hadn't thought of doing something like that.
Alicia Clover I'm going to have to scare up my cast first, though. I don't really have anyone I can call on quite that readily.

John R. Lunise We are on a social media network, are we not?

Alicia Clover I suppose that's not untrue... Honestly I've been off-balance the last couple days. Everything's just been so sudden.

John R. Lunise Take care of yourself. You have a great deal of things left to do in life; don't let a rough few days get you down.

Alicia Clover Mm. I can only hope it'll improve after this. This hasn't really been a good week, not with everything that's happened.

John R. Lunise The holiday was for the most part pleasant, I hope...

Alicia Clover Largely, yes. The ball of string that almost murdered me is another matter entirely, and the pageant could have stood to be better.

John R. Lunise What was wrong with the pageant? Good heavens, we worked so hard on that...

Alicia Clover Nothing... massive? Just a comedy of errors, really - we just didn't prepare well enough. Not for lack of trying, mind, it just didn't quite come together. Almost having a backdrop fall on me certainly didn't help matters.

John R. Lunise Oh good heavens, I am so terribly sorry. I should have looked at the backdrop when I was helping.

Alicia Clover It's hardly your fault alone, sir. We had a lot to do and not long to do it in. And I'm tough - I can stand at least that much.
Alicia Clover It's a hazard of backstage tech work - things go wrong, occasionally things fall over. If one can't handle that much, perhaps they need to seek another vocation.

John R. Lunise Yes, but I was there, I have some experience. It shouldn't have happened regardless.

Alicia Clover I also have experience, it's something I'm cautious of by now. I accept that it shouldn't have happened, but it's of no moment now. I survived.
Alicia Clover Perhaps that, too, is something that would not be missed if it were to change. Well, as long as the change didn't involve it falling on me instead.

John R. Lunise One depressing thing about the idea of infinite universes are that there are literally infinite versions of you that had the backdrop fall on them.

Alicia Clover And also infinitely many where it didn't, right?
Alicia Clover But also probably some number where something even worse happened, now that I think about it. I think I'll take this world's version of events.

John R. Lunise One of the comforting things about infinite universes, conversely, is that you only perceive the one in which nothing ever kills you.

Alicia Clover A small comfort, really. Why can't I perceive the one in while I'm already a movie star at this age and never need to do real work a day in my life?
Alicia Clover Or perhaps the one where I have enough things to do with my free time that I don't spend all my time on a social network most people can't even detect?
Alicia Clover Or maybe the one where I understand physics well enough that homework takes twenty minutes instead of an hour and a half, although that inadvertently goes back to the second option.

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