05th anomaly ; video ; open

[dinosize]

Have you ever wondered what comes next? Evolutionarily. After humans.

[ Stephen is in his own cabin, a light and airy space that doesn't really seem to suit him. The camera is propped up on the edge of a sink, where he's washing out blood and dirt from the clothes he wore while out in the port.

He's not really looking at the camera. ]

Do you think humans could ever be a food source for another animal?

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[keeps_a_cool_head]

Can you describe these temporal anomalies?

[dinosize]

Physically? Or the effects?

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Both, if you can.

[dinosize]

Physically? Like a broken, glowing mirror. There were floating shards, and they mostly seemed to refract or reflect pieces of the world around them. Stepping through would take you immediately to a different part of time.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Would your location remain the same?

[dinosize]

Impossible to say.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Have you made any investigation into it?

[dinosize]

Our first priority was always damage control.

[ His tone is neutral, giving no indication of how he feels on the matter. ]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

As it ought to be, I suppose.

And after?

[dinosize]

They would close fairly quickly.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Shame. I wonder if there were a way to keep it opened for a set period of time.

[dinosize]

Possibly. We haven't found it yet.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Do you have anything you have with you from your world used in conjunction with these anomalies?

[dinosize]

How would I know? Isn't it all duplicates anyhow, the stuff that's here?

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Yes: I'm asking if you have such duplicates in your cabin.

[dinosize]

Why?

[keeps_a_cool_head]

I have an interest in wormholes. Yours is the closest I've heard to ones being terrestrial, instead of out in space.

[dinosize]

How are you defining a wormhole?

[keeps_a_cool_head]

An irregularity that warps time, space, or both.

[dinosize]

Then it was one.

I've got the clothes I've worn through it. Not much else.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

So it doesn't transport weaponry.

[dinosize]

...course it does. But I've only been through a handful of times, and it was mostly government equipment that I brought.

[ There's a handful of things that were his own. Pocket knife, and such. He's not interested in volunteering until he knows what's going to happen to it. ]

It has a strong magnetic pull, in fact. Metal objects go through very easily.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

And what was the largest object you were able to drag through?

[dinosize]

...well, there was a mammoth.

Um, four-legged creature, about four meters high, eight tons.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

A not-insignificant creature.

Still, I was thinking more in the way of starships.