[IC] [SELF-INDULGENT MUSEBOXING]

[senior_citizen]

because Sabra AUs are fun and games until someone loses an eye

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[senior_citizen]

[ he relaxes very slightly ]

So there's nothing you want from me. No game.

[scienceping]

Correct.

[senior_citizen]

... Guess that's all right, then. But I've gotta get back.

[scienceping]

Back?

[senior_citizen]

To Sabra. My team.

[scienceping]

Sabra La Tau is no more.

[senior_citizen]

What?

[scienceping]

The game is ended, destroyed.

[senior_citizen]

[ he looks terrified by the thought ]

My team is there. And there's so much I have to fix--

[scienceping]

Judging by the style of your uniform, I believe you were in Sabra La Tau long before Aeris or I arrived, by months if not years. Your team most likely had left or won before Sabra's destruction.

[senior_citizen]

[ ??? ]

But it hasn't happened yet.

[scienceping]

I believe you are under the influence of an effect from Court, reverting you to a time previous.

[senior_citizen]

Previous?

[ wait hang on. ]

You know a future version of me?

[scienceping]

I believe so.

[senior_citizen]

Someone who ... won?

[scienceping]

... I am uncertain as we never discussed it.

[senior_citizen]

[ slight nod ]

You knew me as captain. [ pause ] Did I ever mention Dr. Banner?

[scienceping]

I am unfamiliar with that name.

[senior_citizen]

He's on Lacerta. A really mild guy unless you get him angry. Anyway, he remembers a different version of me. Where I really was a captain.

[scienceping]

... What do you mean? You are not a captain?

[senior_citizen]

[ shakes his head ]

How could I? The army wouldn't take me.

[scienceping]

What of Dr. Erskine?

[senior_citizen]

[ no blank look, so he recognizes the name, but ... ]

I never met him.

[scienceping]

[quirks an eyebrow]

But you know of him.

[senior_citizen]

Dr. Banner told me about him.