⟪ she nods at the platitude, but doesn't consider it necessary to share it in kind. if anything, she is silently agreeing that it's best to focus on what can gain the most information – she simply assumes that the fact that she finds this pleasant is implicit in how she continues the conversation rather than to leave for her own room. ⟫

Parallel universes, then. ⟪ she doubts that is entirely accurate, but it's easier to work with, and hey, if nothing else, they share a basic premise. roughly. ⟫ America was not exempt when the world came crashing in.

⟪ now, she is sure there are groups of survivors, but it's, at the end of the day, neither here nor there. anything out of the country might as well be on another planet. ⟫

Is it technologically similar to this? ⟪ it's a safe guess, considering how easily angela seems to navigate the screens and vr displays. ⟫