rendez-vous + APPOINTMENT POST

[tearmeanewone]

[This is an appointment post for Elizabeth at luceti.]

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[Action] March 25th

[tearmeanewone]

[Elizabeth is honestly stunned by this. She'd never thought that Rosalind had endured something as crazy as being mailed her degree instead of receiving it with the rest of her student-friends.]

[But of course, it makes sense that she's never heard this before. She was never educated about other cultures so it would intensify her sense of foreigners as 'others'. She was never told that a woman couldn't achieve what a man could, so she would feel outrage whenever someone looked down on her power.]

Well the joke was on them. She went and built a flying city.

[Action] March 25th

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She achieved what none of them could even dream about.

[He smiles a little more, still waltzing through the conversation. His own thoughts had been trained by that world, but he'd gotten proof enough in everything to change his mind.]

I wrote a book, while he studied the Lutece Field.

"Barriers to Transdimensional Travel."

What did she do?

Proved it wrong.

[And it's said with the utmost pride.]

[Action] March 25th

[tearmeanewone]

[Hearing Robert speak so fondly of Rosalind makes Elizabeth smile. She supposes that if she met herself, and she had done something so monumental, Elizabeth would be fond and proud of herself too.]

I think we all long for someone who understands us, and cares about what we care about. And watching the two of you together, I always got the feeling that you both weren't competing, but looking to understand together.

Or looking to mess with me and Booker together. [She laughs.]

[Action] March 25th

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[Robert chuckled. Being blunt with DeWitt might get him to do something, but being cryptic actually kept him motivated -- kept him frustrated. Speaking in riddles kept him from understanding everything at once, kept the nosebleeds at a minimum.]

I think Rosalind is the only mind I never felt the urge to compete against.

The rest? Both before Columbia and after? Had to be proven wrong. Or that I could do better than them.

[Action] March 25th

[tearmeanewone]

Well I never accused either of you of not being egotistical. [She chuckles back.] But I guess science wouldn't get anywhere if nobody was striving to disprove or improve the latest theory.

[Action] March 25th

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I am strongly inclined to believe that humble scientists don't exist. How can we when our work explores the limitations of the very universe and how to defy them?

[Action] March 25th

[tearmeanewone]

I'd be inclined to believe the same, given what I've read. You scientist types just can't get enough of yourselves. [Elizabeth laughs, even if it really isn't the most clever of jokes. She's still a little tired.]

[Action] March 25th

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[Robert chuckles warmly at the sound, leaning in to give another kiss to the top of her head.]

I'm told we tend to be quite unbearable company for anyone not of our kind.

[Action] March 25th

[tearmeanewone]

Absolutely. What with your wires and your cryptic statements... [She giggles again and wraps her arms around Robert's back, hugging him instead of continuing to dance.]

[Action] March 25th

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[Robert returns the embrace, chuckling faintly.]

Well, you can blame DeWitt for the cryptic statements. We found that he has a rather rebellious tendency. Tell him to go left... he'll go right.