RADIO | AUDIO | some idle curiosity

[skeletonenigma]

[The message over the handsets is short, succinct, and to the point. Long story short: the detective is bored, so the first thought to capture some of his idle curiosity gets put to the Foreigners at large.]

Who else has received letters from themselves?

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[skeletonenigma]

I don't know. I thought it was something here, but now I'm not even sure I was the intended recipient. It's referring to someone who, in my universe, died over a century ago.

[Which was why solid evidence of alternate universe shenanigans perked Skulduggery's interest so much. It's another piece to the puzzle.]

Would you say that someone from Keeliai might have explained things to him?

[solo_patria]

That should be odd, you are right.

[Still, Enjolras is squinting, more than anything else here.] The boundaries of time and place HAVE become so blurred here...even death does not seem to have done much for some people, those who are meant to reach us here, or to be here themselves.

[Enjolras is pulling out his letter, smoothing it, smiling at the date, in spite of himself.]

I would suppose it could be possible that someone had done so. It would make as much sense as anything else. Funny, though. [He pauses, tapping the date of his letter absently.]

I should think it was a different version of myself, in any case, not...a future returned one by any means. Even I do not date my letters using the particular calendar he did. Particularly when he points out that there is no way for it to have remained in vogue in his world, either.

[skeletonenigma]

[The frown is evident in Skulduggery's tone.] You mean he used an older calendar to date the letter, and then deliberately drew your attention to that?

[solo_patria]

[Enjolras pauses, making a thoughtful sort of hum as he considers that.] Not so overtly as all of that, but he speaks of a world in which the same cycle of events occurred up to the manner of our deaths.

The Great Republic had a calendar of its own, drawn up to represent the new dawn of rebirth in France. When it fell, so too, did the calendar. He uses that same measure of dating, even while addressing the fact that so much else changed. It is an assumption, but a reasonable extrapolation given what I've been told.