knightofratatosk | [Accidental Voice]

[It's late in the evening after a busy day of work at the tea shop, cooking and chores, and animal-wrangling that Emil finally sits down to flip through his journal and catch up on the events of the day.

He's taken to using a certain Christmas card that Buffy gave him a couple of years ago as a bookmark in the journal, both to keep it from getting lost or damaged and because it's bulky enough (being one of those musical cards) that it makes it easy to find his place right away. It's never occurred to him that sticking something that plays music into a journal that can broadcast things to everyone else whose journal is open might not be the best idea-- he always keeps the card closed, and besides, he's been doing it for a long time without any issues.

Today, however, he's so tired and the couch is so comfortable that he ends up starting to doze off as he pages through the journal. Everything is fine for a while... until he rolls over a bit, dislodging both journal and card from their places on the couch beside him and sending them toppling to the floor, the card landing half-open atop the also-opened journal. Of course, this immediately triggers the card to start playing music....

So Luceti, enjoy the very tinny version of "Jingle Bells" that is currently being broadcast over the journals. Emil has no idea his journal is even on.]

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That's right. Wow, this Anima thing from your world really does sound like it's a lot like mana.

There do seem to be a lot of common denominators between worlds. Just...some things that bind all our world's together.

Yeah... I've even run into a few other worlds that have the same kind of money as mine, too.

I've found that common enough, but I'm from one of the many variations of Earth. Yen...dollars, all of that seems to stay the same.

Yeah, I guess that wouldn't be too surprising if they're all just alternate versions of Earth. I'm talking about totally different worlds, with different names and places and everything. Everything else about them is different, but somehow we still use the same kind of money.

Really? How many different worlds are like that, here?

So far I've run into three of them. There might be even more that I don't know about yet.

That's quite a lot. And they all have different names and races? Is Mana common between them?

That's just it-- we all have the same kind of money, but none of them have mana. Everything else about the worlds are different... well, except for things like gels and some other items. But none of the names or places are the same.

How strange. A friend of mine has had that experience, something we've talked about. Similar object names, with the same functions. And magic as well.

Really? And it isn't some other version of Earth?

[Now he's intrigued.]

No, it's not. I...don't know the name of the world at all though.

That is strange. But it's neat too, to know that a world that isn't like yours at all can still have some similarities to it. It makes you wonder how many other worlds like that there are out there.

It does...and I've heard lots of ideas. Some people think that every decision you make happens a different way in another world. I read about that in a science book once. But it sounds a bit outlandish.

Oh, I read about that too. I'm not sure I understand exactly how it works, but it sounded like a pretty cool theory. It's the idea that time is like a series of branches rather than a straight line, right?

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