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[The young girl had waited for some time. Watching. Listening. She noticed a certain trend among her fellow foreigners--one that she had yet to become a part of. And as the weeks past and she still had yet to join their ranks...]

[She didn't even bother attempting a smile as she turned the camera on.]

A lot of people have been talking about those letters.

But...what do you think it means if you didn't get one?

[It was almost a rhetorical question at this point; she might not have known for certain, but she could wager a guess.]

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[~~Leave it to Midii to break something.~~]

[The fact that Jack had already responded and admitted he hadn't received a letter helped some. Not much--it still left far too many unanswered questions--but it did offer her the opportunity to assume a different reason than her worst fear.]

That much, I would think is obvious.

You wrote something to yourself because the you of then thought there was something the you of now needed to know.

Yes, but unless the me of then knew there was a way for the me of now to receive it, the me of then wouldn't have bothered.

[A short pause. Even Skulduggery needs a second or two to make sure what he said actually makes sense.]

That means someone must have told me that was the case. Or possibly something. And that's not taking into account the various alternate universes some of the letters have come from.

[...]

[Okay, she had long ago accepted magic and parallel worlds and all those seemingly incomprehensible mysteries of the universe. But there was still something about what he said that bothered her. She couldn't quite put her finger on it. Not yet.]

It's as if...the letters arrived the same way we all did.

[Different universes. Different points in time from each universe.]

Except...I was told that if we ever went home, we wouldn't remember anything about Keelai.

[Skulduggery can personally vouch for that, unfortunately.]

Exactly. That's what makes it interesting. We may be in for a few more surprises before we leave.

There's also the possibility that someone else wrote all of these letters. I'm not sure why, other than to unsettle as many of us as possible. Maybe you're impossible to unsettle.

[She almost burst out laughing at the irony; a lack of letter had unsettled her more than anything her "future" self might have wrote.]

I wouldn't say that.

I'm just...I don't always express it as openly as some people.

Impossible to visibly unsettle, then.

[That doesn't make much sense, of course; if someone knew enough about every Foreigner to write all of the letters, it was very unlikely they didn't know what Midii's reaction would be. But the more Skulduggery learns about these letters, the less anything makes sense, and a part of him's resigned itself to being forever in the dark. Jokes come easily when you've reached that point.]

[It was difficult to tell if he was being patronizing or flattering...or if he actually, truly meant it. The latter would have been a huge compliment to her "acting" skills, at least.]

Sure. We'll go with that.

It's...easier than thinking that this is all real, and the only people who didn't get letters from the future are the ones who have no future.

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