[In Conan's experience, you don't get that pale without experiencing some sort of a shock. As if Crowley's sudden appearance out of nowhere wasn't enough -- as a new arrival, Conan's yet to take the arrivals and departures from the Astral Plane for granted -- his expression and his actions were enough to capture the tiny detective's attention.
Hesitating momentarily outside the bar, Conan reasoned that if no one seemed to mind murder, they surely wouldn't kick him out of a bar, and pushed the door open.]
I.... Well.. [He frowns, drinking from the bottle again.]
Thirty years before I came here, my world suffered the apocalypse. After five years of war between Heaven and Hell, only a handful of demons and angels survived. They retreated to their respective realms leaving me alone on a world utterly destroyed.
Twenty-five years later and I have access to this Astral Plane. I live here now. That room and car next to the bar is mine. And... The Machine gave me something wonderful, Aziraphale. From another reality. He was my beloved in my world. So seeing him again, even different, was.... Extraordinary. I haven't seen him in over a month now...
Well, a few days back I was on my world and I saw a shooting star. Odd, but I still followed the human custom of wishing on it. I wished the apocalypse had never happened and that Aziraphale, my Aziraphale was back. Before long buildings and people started to return. And.... Just before coming here, there he was. As if he'd never been killed by his kind. It spooked me...
[As a detective, Conan had heard a lot of fantastic stories. This one though ... this one really took the cake. He had to suppress a lot of questions, focusing instead on the current issues troubling his companion.
Different history -- apocalypse would cut it. As for different rules -- existence of biblical creatures in his world, someone he knows but is different here -- so far it all correlates. But can it really be true?]
And you know the Aziraphale-san you saw in your world wasn't the one you met here? I read a pamphlet that says sometimes people from the Astral Plane might appear in your world ... You're sure it's related to the star?
I'm not sure it's related to the star, but... He's definitely not the same one. He... They don't feel the same. And the one I met here can't come to my world without me bringing him as far as I can tell....
Hesitating momentarily outside the bar, Conan reasoned that if no one seemed to mind murder, they surely wouldn't kick him out of a bar, and pushed the door open.]
Mister -- are you all right?
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No...
Yes...
Not really...
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Sounds complicated.
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It is. Terribly. Bloody complicated.
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[He looks at the bottle sadly, his gaze shielded from view by his sunglasses.]
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Ne ... is it something you can talk about?
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Thirty years before I came here, my world suffered the apocalypse. After five years of war between Heaven and Hell, only a handful of demons and angels survived. They retreated to their respective realms leaving me alone on a world utterly destroyed.
Twenty-five years later and I have access to this Astral Plane. I live here now. That room and car next to the bar is mine. And... The Machine gave me something wonderful, Aziraphale. From another reality. He was my beloved in my world. So seeing him again, even different, was.... Extraordinary. I haven't seen him in over a month now...
Well, a few days back I was on my world and I saw a shooting star. Odd, but I still followed the human custom of wishing on it. I wished the apocalypse had never happened and that Aziraphale, my Aziraphale was back. Before long buildings and people started to return. And.... Just before coming here, there he was. As if he'd never been killed by his kind. It spooked me...
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Different history -- apocalypse would cut it. As for different rules -- existence of biblical creatures in his world, someone he knows but is different here -- so far it all correlates. But can it really be true?]
And you know the Aziraphale-san you saw in your world wasn't the one you met here? I read a pamphlet that says sometimes people from the Astral Plane might appear in your world ... You're sure it's related to the star?
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... ne, are you sure it's over?
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Not that I've noticed.
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But if your world's been one way for 30 years without change ... and it's only since coming to the Plane that things have happened ...
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