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[enarms]

[ he's laUGHing. ]

Incredible take down.

[ but he's also aware of that sixteen, of the man, of the time she inhabited. and of that home from university. of course she was. of course Rosalind Lutece was a child genius, stomping all over societal bounds. ]

God knows what you'd have been like if you were born in my time.

[ probably the same but a billionaire by 12. ]

[originallutece]

God knows what you'd be like if you'd been born in mine.

Interesting to think about, isn't it? I don't remember any Watsons around, but to be fair, I never memorized Burke's Peerage.

[enarms]

I'd have been a nightmare.

[ he's self-aware enough to know that much. ]

I doubt you'd have found it in there anyway. Common, as names go.

[originallutece]

A nightmare is a bit strong. What prompts you to say that?

[enarms]

Remember my alleged parade of women and your loathed army boys?

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[originallutece]

"Alleged".

[originallutece]

A nightmare if you'd tried to court me, perhaps, but it may surprise you to find men went through women just as quickly in 1887.

Besides: I might have liked you if you'd been rude. It'd be different, anyway.

[enarms]

No, I don't think it would surprise me.

I wouldn't have been rude.

[ just as dull and boring, sorry pal. he's not an imaginative flirt, just a practiced one. ]