The Roof, Late Saturday Morning

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Fall was coming, Karolina could feel it. She wasn't sure how she felt about it, the whole idea of fall on the east coast, though she supposed she was going to take it as it came. No use fighting the seasons.

Still, she'd taken her glorious breakfast of a Pop-Tart up on the roof this morning, sitting on the ledge and looking out over the town. The day was mostly cloudy, but even with just a little sun coming through every once in a while, she was happy enough. Recharging.

And after hesitating and fidgeting a while, she even took off her bracelet. There was no one else on the roof. She could let her true colors show – if that's what they were, the shimmery yellow and pink and blue. She wasn't sure yet.

But it did still feel nice to be out in the open air.

[ooc: Open, omg!]

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"I can't even tell why some of them think it's appropriate to make jokes about certain topics," Liara admitted. ... She'd always had that problem, but the asari were, if in possession of more of a sense of humor than she was most of the time, a bit more serious than the humans she'd encountered so far. "But it's not terribly important."

She dropped her arms on the railing. "How have you been?" she attempted.

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"The new term started," Karolina shrugged. Like Liara might not know that. "I'm taking drama and, um, astro science? So, mostly I'm getting used to the new schedule."

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"Astro science," Liara echoed. "That's Commander Alenko's class, isn't it?"

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"Yeah, that's him," Karolina confirmed with a nod and a curious look. "Do you know him?"

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"He is from my... universe," Liara settled on. The terminology still didn't sound right. "But several decades into the future. He seems to know me, but I don't know him. It's... confusing."

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"Oh." Well, that was something Karolina could nod understandingly at. "I... sorta have that with someone too. It's not decades, but he knows me and I don't know him."

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Liara looked up at her. "How do you deal with him?" she wondered.

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Karolina shrugged. "I don't know. I think he's friends with... other-me ––" That was an awkward and odd thing to say. "–– so I don't know, I'm just friendly with him. It's weird, but it's not bad."

And there were things about him that gave her hope.

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"Part of me wants to ask Commander Alenko to take me back with him," Liara admitted. "At least so I can see if I can't find the artifact that brought me here in my time." She hesitated briefly before adding, "I don't know if we are friends in his time. He's... reserved."

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"He seems that way," Karolina admitted. Then her head tilted again. "Would you really do that? Go into someone else's time?"

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"I don't know," Liara said. "It... would be easier if there had been studies. It would be rather unpleasant if my going there would somehow cause the universe to implode."

Yes. Unpleasant.

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"Timelines are an issue," Karolina nodded. "That's kind of why I haven't asked Victor about much. I don't know if I should have that kind of knowledge, you know?"

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"I don't know," Liara said -- honestly. "I can't really argue against knowledge. If our past can teach us so much about what the future should be, then our future-past should be nothing but educational, shouldn't it?"

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Karolina actually found that logic just a little hard to follow.

"I guess," she said, but sounded like she wasn't so sure. She shrugged, as well. "Guess I also might just not want to know."

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Liara was... kind of a scientist down to the core. She may have had more trouble processing the idea of knowledge being at all harmful than she did processing the existence of humans as a species.

"That's fair," she offered, though she couldn't quite wrap her head around that one either. "Goddess, I just wish there were studies. You would think someone would have looked into this before us."