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It's been a few days since Rorschach's first experience in the bar, and he pauses in the doorway this time, one arm extended to hold the door open.

Behind him, if anyone cares to notice, lies an eerily quiet and somewhat shadier-looking bar than Milliways.

It only takes him a moment to make up his mind, though, and he lets the door swing shut behind him and heads for the Observation Window.

Apparently the bar isn't a dream, and doesn't just exist in Dreiberg's apartment. This means the next logical step is figuring out where it does exist. Hence the solemn window study.

Long story short: There's a short masked man sitting on a table, making the 'thinker' pose at the Observation Window.

He's relatively botherable.

[tiny investigative tags: Rorschach, Ellen (Vault 101 Dweller), Charlie Monroe, Michael, Tommy Shepherd]

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"It might not be your world, sir," says Ellen. "I'm told a lot of people are from other timelines than mine. Who was the first man to walk on the moon, where you come from?"

"Neil Armstrong, technically."

It seems a little pointless, in retrospect, to send a manned spacecraft to the moon and then have Dr. Manhattan poof himself up to visit them with a camera.

Ellen nods. "Where I come from," she says, "it was Richard Wade, on a rocket called Valiant 11, launched by the United States Space Agency. So we're probably from two parallel universes, or something along those lines."

"Hurm."

There is a thoughtful pause; he's filing away information. Parallel universes is something he's sure Dr. Manhattan will know about.

"And even parallel universes have war." It's not really a question, just a depressingly realized statement.

There's a saying in Ellen's universe, one that prompts a sad little smile as she relays it: "War never changes."

"No," Rorschach agrees tiredly. "Nor does humanity."

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