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[unpresidential]

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[unpresidential]

Your... Operator?

[head tilt. clearly, he has no idea how any of this works.]

[compossible]

Yeah, you know--the guy who's supposed to help me while I'm off in another world and time, but mostly the guy who slacks off or makes snarky comments instead of being of any actual use--

[....yeah.]

That's my Operator.

[unpresidential]

Ah.

[was he supposed to know that? he doesn't know how time travel works outside of movies and dramas. and none of those had operators.]

The only operators I know... they're the ones for phones. That's all.

[compossible]

It's okay, he doesn't deserve to be known anyway. [wow, harsh.]

Operators for phones? I don't know anything about that. [A pause, and she smiles.] See? We're even.

[unpresidential]

[it sounds harsh, but he's not judging. he doesn't have the right to.]

Mm... looks like it. You'll run into that a lot around here, probably.

[compossible]

Hey, when I do, can I bring things to you to ask about? You seem like the sort of guy who won't take advantage of a poor, lost, confused young woman.

[you are none of those things, Elcia]