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( The device is recording, but not because Robin has figured it out. No, no...that's entirely unintentional. In fact, she's still in the conference room of the Department of Displaced Supers, looking incredulously back at the headless entities standing at a forty-five degree angle from her, if the video feed is anything to go by [it isn't]. )

This? You're saying this is a phone? Where's the cord? You know what? No, okay, let's go back. Tell me again about how I went Back to the Future and wound up in Florida, because I'm gonna be honest, Kenneth — can I call you Kenneth? — I'm gonna be honest with you, Kenneth, it sounds like you've had a few too many...

( Robin brings two fingers to her lips and mimes smoking a joint. )

I'm just saying.

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Uh....hi - helloooooo. [Sally gives a wave, both hands not one, trying to get the recorder's attention as she sits up a little more on the couch she's seated on in her apartment.]

You're deeeefinitely recording when I don't think you meant to - and still from the DoDS which means you're probably new, so hi. I'm Sally and I don't think Kenneth is going to be super helpful between you and me.

[Sally's eyebrows pop up and there is a slight amusement creeping onto her face.]

And between you and me, Kenneth's biggest problem is, probably, not his drug habit. The whole intro spiel is never helpful. Us residents have gotten much better at it, though he's not wrong about where you are. You are in a different time and place

( It takes Robin a second to notice the movement in the corner of her eye and, until she does, she just assumes the female voice is coming from somewhere down the hall and it certainly doesn't occur to her that the other woman is addressing her.

Just as movement catches her peripheral, Kenneth gestures to the weird screen thing and Robin looks down. A little 'o' of surprise forms on her lips as she looks down at the image of the upside-down woman waving her arms and talking. )

Oh, whoa...whaaaat?

( She looks up again. )

Kenneth, you've been holding out on me.

( She picks up the device and looks down at it. She smirks a little at the other woman's crack at Kenneth. Yeah, he's not super helpful, that's for sure, but it falters again a little when the woman confirms time travel. Literal time travel. )

...seriously? How is that even possible? Also, oh, hi, Sally. Hi. Robin. So wait—

( She looks away from the screen and gives Kenneth a shooing motion with her hand. )

Thanks for nothing, Kenneth. You want to get me a bottle of water? I'd love a bottle of water. Thank you so much.

( Her attention moves back to the screen. )

Okay, so wait, it's really 2022? I'm really in the future? How is that even possible? I've seen some seriously messed up stuff, but...

( Her voice trails off and she moves both hands toward her head, miming "mind blown." )

[Sally grins as it finally seems to register in the younger woman that she's there and she feels a bit of relief - it does seem to be easier coming from someone here. And the displaced - especially in her case - care a lot more about their own.

Not so much with the department.

There's a moment of recognition at the name Robin, but surely this isn't Steve's Robin....that'd be an insane coincidence, right? Though there were just a couple of people from Hakins that Sally clocked arriving.]

Hi, Robin. [She only gets that much out before Kenneth is shooed and Sally barks out a laugh that she can't quite help, fully and wholly amused.]

I'm pretty sure it's something major to do with technology - technology that I don't understand to be totally honest. And, yes, it really is 2022. You're in both the future and an alternate version of Earth too, even if it sounds a little crazy.

I mean...crazy and I are pretty uncomfortably familiar, at this point, but yeah... Yeah, this is a little over the top.

( She lifts her eyebrows a little bit. )

So...like...wow, I don't even know what to say and it's quite a feat to render me speechless, so congratulations to you!

I know the feeling. [Sally gives a wry facial shrug.] Somehow it just keeps growing and we keep getting used to it more and more here, though.

[Sally reaches for her cup of iced coffee - home made this time - and takes a sip.]

I can sometimes have that impact on people, actually. Big personality in a small body - also for transparency sake I'm Steve's roommate here, one of them, anyway. I've heard a lot about you. Like....a lot a lot. He talks about you all the time. So even though it's a clusterfuck coming in like you did you're not going to be alone and I'm freaking excited, despite the circumstance, that I get to meet you.

( Robin looks confused. )

Roommate? How long has he been here, exactly? I saw him like ten minutes ago...

( She's still trying to wrap her head around the full implications of time travel; she'd been too high from the Russians' drugs when she saw Back to the Future, so she doesn't really understand how it all works. ),

Harrington talks to people about me? Awww.

( It's a playful sound rather than an endeared one. She huffs a little laugh and lifts an eyebrow. )

Did he tell you about all his children, too?

It's complicated and time works really weird somewhere along the way in the transition from here to there. Steve has gone back to Hawkins and come back - it sends you right back to where you came from, basically, without missing a beat.

[Sally shrugs, explaining...and yet not at the same time.]

I mean you're his best friend so of course he does. [Sally makes a playful face.] And we've heard all about the children too. I think he's filled us in on everything, honestly, we tell one another most things, I think.

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