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Kim comes downstairs.

She sits at the bar and orders another salad and diet soda. Healthy eating day three.

But the bar also gives her a cup of soup. Apparently, the bar thinks salad is not a good meal.

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"Kim!" Romana's happy to see her.

"Hi, Romana." Kim smiles and looks over.

Romana smiles back and sits down at Kim's table assuming the other girl won't mind.

Then she eyes Kim's soup and looks concerned. "Surely you're going to eat more than that..."

Kim doesn't mind at all.

"Soup's a meal. Actually, where I'm from there are entire diet plans designed around it."

Romana makes a face of disgust. "Diets are absurd. You're a lovely girl and eating food won't hurt you."

"Please tell me that in the future they got rid of diets."

Kim smiles a little at that. "No, but after living on burgers and fries I'm thinking I should try eating a little healthier."

"Depends on which location but I believe your planet gave the idea up."

Romana chuckles. "Ah. I see. Well then it is sensible to eat better." Motherly tone. "But you could do with a little protein. Are you fond of Thai food? Chicken pad thai's good."

"They did? What did they replace it with?"

Kim grins. "Yeah, I love thai food. They have thai food here?"

"Obsessing over nanobots, I think."

Smiles. "Hm. I bet we could get some if you want."

"Nanobots? You mean that in the future people are part...machine?"

Kim grins at that and looks down at her soup. "Yeah that sounds like a better idea."

"They inject themselves with it to make things easier. Or to learn more. It sort of replaces books in a lot of ways." Looks forlorn.

Romana goes over to the bar and orders some chicken pad tai, beef pad sei ew, cucumber salad and rice.

"There. This will do the trick."

"So people in the future don't read? That is so sad."

Kim looks at the food and grins again. "This really does look...a lot more filling." She takes a bite of the chicken pad tai. "Oh, much much better. Do they still have thai food in the future?"

"People in the future are...well, not bad but not very clever either. Not in ways that count anyway. They lack substance and individuality. Everyone knows the same things and has the same interests. But that's a long ways off and only one possible outcome so don't worry."

Beams before helping herself to some pad sei ew. "See? You can eat better and still eat. And there is thai food in the future. If you know where to look."

"So you've been to future Earths that have...different outcomes?"

Kim takes a bite of the cucumber salad. "What is some of the oddest food you've ever had?"

"Yes. After all, nothing is frozen in place or certain beyond a shadow of a doubt. The only thing constant is change."

Romana debates ~~as mun makes shit up~~.

"The highland spotted frog-pigs of Niegella 19. They taste like steak dipped in moldy jello. And that wasn't by choice."

"It must give you a lot of power over the future, being able to go back and forth in time. I mean, how are you sure the place you return to is the one that you left?"

Kim makes a face. "That sounds...like really bad school food."

"Oh, I try to observe as much as I can. Although...death is something I try to help prevent. I can't help it really."

She looks thoughtful. "I'm not sure if you can. Sometimes it helps if you're travelling with someone from that point in time."

"Oh it was horrible. I would never take anyone to that planet. Ever. Especially not someone on a 'diet.'" She winks.

[ooc: no problem, ttyl]

"I don't think I'd be able to stop myself from trying to prevent it either. I mean, I know I wouldn't. There's someone here from a week before something happens and part of me wants to tell him to try to change the future and another part of me wants to leave it alone."

Kim smiles a little. "I don't know, sounds like it would helpful for a diet, having all the food be inedible."

Romana frowns. "Oh, Kim, I'm sorry..."

"Bah. You'd waste away to nothing."

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