Andromeda raised an eyebrow. All right, that was older than she was expecting. How different a person -- and their world -- could become in perhaps forty years or more. Then again ... "Some of the people that I know here I haven't seen for nearly twenty years -- as I mentioned, them being dead."

When he spoke about alternate timelines, she couldn't help but take a bit of pause. It wasn't anything she'd heard about before. "I didn't know that was a possibility here. I suppose it's understandable, given how complex decisions can be -- but I've never heard of more than one version of a world occurring." And she's certainly not enough of an expert in time-travel to understand exactly how it could happen.

"If that's the case, though, I hope people aren't being too judgmental. It hardly seems fair, if you aren't even the man that they know in a strict sense. I'm glad that you have at least a few friends to back up your side of things, though. Otherwise I'd suppose they might think you were just lying to protect your best interests and actual motives." It's what she'd have done if she found out she was an unsavoury character in a few years' time.