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At a booth in Milliways sits a woman in her thirties, stirring a cup of tea, watching the stars explode. There is a fat boring-looking lawbook under her elbow, and a barcode across the back of her right hand.
Mark (with kappa)
Ruth (with Maggie)
"...Bad guys wanted a kid they could brainwash who would hopefully have powers as strong as my brother's and fiddled with my DNA a bit to get it, so I'm arguably not a straight-up clone of my mom but whatever, but got caught before it was time to pop the lid."
"I mean, Mom and Dad were awesome about it, no harm done, they didn't have the opportunity to psychologically scar me even a little bit."
"The actual nasty stuff I was referring to was...remember how I said my brother was a hundred and ninety seven? And it was 2123?"
"I told someone asking about the tattoo to go ahead and get one," snorts lawbook lady. "Get one, go gloveless, loiter in public places, and get arrested without telling the cops they were an original. Make trouble on clones' behalf."
"Ah."
"Um, hang on, my grand-niece wrote a book I think you might be interested in."
She goes over to the bar, and comes back with a book entitled Medical Technology For The Outworlder: How To Increase Your Lifespan And Wealth by Moira Xavier. "Most people back home think she wrote it as a gag but actually it was so Milliways can sell copies to people in worlds with lower tech levels than ours. I think rejuv beds can repair damaged organs, so if people having theirs nonconsensually harvested is a serious problem in yours this might be useful." It's a thick volume.
"Um, hang on, my grand-niece wrote a book I think you might be interested in."
She goes over to the bar, and comes back with a book entitled Medical Technology For The Outworlder: How To Increase Your Lifespan And Wealth by Moira Xavier. "Most people back home think she wrote it as a gag but actually it was so Milliways can sell copies to people in worlds with lower tech levels than ours. I think rejuv beds can repair damaged organs, so if people having theirs nonconsensually harvested is a serious problem in yours this might be useful." It's a thick volume.
"Yeah. Our family was from Germany originally but my older brother moved to the States after everything while he thought Mom and Dad were dead and they decided to stay near him after my niece managed to retrieve them via time travel."
"Yes. Yes, it is in English. Technical English, even, so you don't have to deal with futuristic slang terms."
She waves a hand. "You generally. One does not have to deal with futuristic slang terms. I wouldn't expect you personally to be a medtech."