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Sometime post-Happy Hour, Ash has staked out a quiet booth.

Aside from keeping an eye out for errant beaver children, there's not much going on.

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Kevin wanders past with coffee.

The mun has no justification for this thread except that she and Becky are bored.

The pup's pretty bored too. And when Ash gets bored, he starts thinking about things, and... that makes bad things happen.

"Good coffee?"

"It is. Bar's learned how I like it, I think."

How he likes it is very strong with a lot of sugar. Habit, from his med student days.

"Yeah, she's good at that."

And then the part of his brain responsible for proper socialization kicks in.

"Ash Williams."

"Kevin Fawkes. Good to meet you."

"You too."

He gestures to the unoccupied half of the booth.

"Take a seat, I could use the company."

Kevin nods and sits down.

"So what's your where and when?"

Sort of vague because the mun actually can't remember *facepalm*

"Detroit, mid-90s. You?"

"California, 2000."

He considers this.

"... I wonder how you can talk to people from the future here without it affecting stuff. Isn't there supposed to be some paradoxy stuff that happens there?"

Says the man whose fiance is from the 1300s.

Kevin shrugs.

"Parallel realities?"

He's not a physicist, but that doesn't mean he's completely unaware of the theory.

"They can't all be parallel, though. That'd mean only one person from each reality could be here, and that's a little implausible even for this place."

... This is why he shouldn't think so much.

"...well, my brother's here, so that's clearly not true."

"Exactly.

... there was supposed to be a point in there somewhere."

"...I think we got lost."

"... That happens to me a lot."

"Maybe we should talk about something else?"

"That'd probably be a good idea, yeah."

He smirks.

"So... come here often?"

Kevin doesn't miss a beat, mostly because he's almost sure it's not an actual pick-up line.

"Been here just over a week now."

No, it's most decidedly not.

"How're you settling in so far?"

"Pretty well. My brother being here helped."

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