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[Joshua is holding his wrist out before him, smiling at the watch's camera. This thing is interesting... this whole place, really, is interesting to him. He's sitting in a cafe, with a steaming cup of coffee in his hand. While aware of his need to spare the money he had for food here- after all he was practically human again- it did good to rest his nerves.]

I've been investigating this extra thirteenth hour in the day as others are calling it. It's quite interesting, really, for more reasons than one. Most interestingly... restrictions on my abilities are lifted during the Thirteenth Hour.

[In other words, he's completely human every other hour of the day, and that's incredibly frustrating.]

I'm perfectly aware that there are those here who are more experienced with this world than I am. I'd like to know more about the Thirteenth Hour, if it's possible. What exactly it is, why it exists, what effects it has on this world... Anything you can tell me~

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An interesting theory. If we viewed it like a spectrum, you could say our universe is red and this one is violet. Similar in nature, almost side-by-side, but on completely different wavelengths.

[It surprises him a little that he knows that Angels are capable of crossing universes... how much did that Fallen Angel tell him?] I'm not sure. It might be out of my own power to even contact one, but if anyone from our universe could cross over to this universe, it'd have to be an Angel.

Well we got here. There's no such thing as a one-way door! The target is 700 nanometers!

[Lots. And he actually listened, then] How are you gonna flag down one of those feathery functions, anyway?

At least for you there certainly isn't, I'm sure. That's an awfully small target, though~

[Joshua wonders how much he'd be able to reveal... though knowing Sho, he probably knew more than Joshua even realized as it was.] I know one of them personally, I can contact him across universes psychically. Granted he isn't 'out of range' as it were.

Well, technically, the target is between 620 and 740 nanometers. The wavelength of red light. Or can't you keep up with your own metaphors, zero?

Ha. The Angle said that the Composer kept an Angle ally. Never said what they DID for you, though. Well maybe you can pick up on his frequency and get his asymptote over here.

I think you're taking my metaphor a little too literally... Though if we really are going to equate our universe to red light, it's still quite a longshot to a small target. Especially considering the fact that 'red light' would likely consist of all of our infinite parallel universes.

If anything he'll be picking up on my frequency..... You know, this Angel friend of yours happened to know quite a lot about me. I'm curious to know exactly who your mysterious contact is~

Then it's even MORE apt! There are digits here from all different kinds of worlds. Each of their worlds has their own set of parallel planes, divergent timelines. There are infinite points on this line. And I don't mean a lot, I mean actual infinity. A nanometer is actually generous, given the scale!

Ha! Like I'd tell you. I won't tell anyone. He told me what he did was zetta high treason, and I'm not low enough to sell him out.

We're talking about a figurative nanometer, Minamimoto. In actuality, yes, we are literally looking at infinite other universes where we just want one. To put universes on a spectrum is, itself, being generous.

But given that our own set of parallel universes is infinite, I suppose it isn't too much of a stretch to believe that we could at least reach our own part of the spectrum. If we can accomplish that much, finding our way back to our own original universe becomes infinitely easier.

[Hmm...] Yes, you're right, whoever the Fallen Angel is is going to suffer severe consequences for what he did. If you won't give me an inkling to his identity... how about a motive? Did he explain why he was helping you?

I can tell this isn't going to be easy, no matter what kind of metaphor we slap on it. Each little world and its parallel universes are... probably... separate from one another. Probably. They're the points.

[Sho has SOME morals, man; don't bite the hand that feeds you ~~and makes sure you get revived properly~~] .... Backup. He said I was backup. I asked him what he meant by that, but he wouldn't say. And that's the truth.

No two universes intersect, so yes, points... If you want, we can view this differently. [Joshua pulls up some basic graphing software on the watch and puts up a graph with a basic y=sinx function, from 0 to 2pi.] Expanding on our theory that we're on a spectrum, or a circle, imagine we're currently here. [Joshua points at the origin on the graph.] And our universe is therefore somewhere between 3/2 pi and 2pi. There is literally an infinite number of points in between those two x coordinates. Our universe could be anywhere in between there. At the same time, we're close enough that this current universe is not very different from our own in terms of basic laws of physics as well as human civilization.

[He's going to put the math talk on hold though because... this honestly intrigued him more.] .... Backup? So you were a pawn in something bigger...

[ooh trig, Sho loves him some trig. Obviously. He named his attacks after trig.] I wonder about the stuff around pi. Are those universes where... I don't know, cockroaches rule the world? Or maybe there's nothing at all. Makes sense, though. But if I had to wager a guess, I'd say that the same laws of physics apply over the whole graph, with a few exceptions. Hn...

Hey! I'm not some factoring pawn! I was backup! Which means I was a contingency plan in case SOMETHING went wrong. What, though, I don't know. Maybe whatever Shades was doing with those red pins. We never really had the time to talk. Our meetings had to be zetta short, and they were spent teaching me the taboo refinery functions. Most of which is in Angelic. Do you know how factoring difficult Angelic is?

Edited 2012-11-20 20:38 (UTC)

[Joshua knows. That's why he decided to go with that particular metaphor. As long as it was cyclical, it didn't really matter what the metaphor was involving the multi-verse.] If only infinity weren't so big, we'd be able to find out for ourselves....

Hold on. [A thought occurs to him. Pulling the graph back up, he adds a y=cosx function and circles the intersecting points.] Perhaps universes do intersect. [This was all nothing but guesswork, though.

Joshua just scoffs a little at Sho's pride.] Neku was the backup for the red skull pins. I'm not sure what you were backup for, but whatever condition it was, it clearly wasn't met.

It's too bad. Might be kind of fun to explore lots of different worlds. A few pit stops on a road trip back to our own world! Cockroach world would be zetta awesome.

[he frowns, looking at the intersections] Yeah, but what does it mean? Hmph. I hate not knowing.

[he has that in spades.] I told you what I know, other than the guy's identity, which you won't get out of me. End of function! I might never know what I was a backup plan for, but it doesn't matter. What the factor was Shades thinking anyway? Normalizing Shibuya? Ha! What a joke.

Edited 2012-11-21 05:38 (UTC)

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