"Yes, well, lucky you."

"Our world is mostly okay, except it doesn't have reincarnation and Yellowstone exploded recently."

"Um, yikes. Are you in an ash zone, do you want a cute little ash scrubber robot...?"

"I still live on the same continent, so some ash, yes. I couldn't possibly explain where I got the cute little robot so if you could make it disguise itself as a Roomba or something..."

"I dunno what a Roomba is but draw me a picture and I can make it pretend to be one whenever somebody besides you is around."

"You had a supervolcano go off on your continent. Eek."

"We had a little warning. I helped with evac."

"She saved one point five million people," says Alli.

"Damn," murmurs Lorica.

"Holy shit. That's impressive."

"When are you guys all from, anyway? You mostly dress like aughts and tens as best I can remember..." Marie says. "So if it's just that my world could have but didn't have Yellowstone go off that's one thing, but I think we should all check to make sure that's not in our futures."

"It blew up late 2003."

"I'm a little earlier than that, but I feel almost positive that if it's going to go in my world, it'll be because Behemoth or possibly the Simurgh or possibly a geokinetic supervillain did it and the fact that it hasn't already happened suggests it's not that easy to do."

"Nineteen ninety-three for us. We'll definitely get some people to check."

"Okay, it's 2086, if this were going to happen it would probably have happened by now."

"Which at least indicates it's not a universal in Earth timelines."

"It's also possible that it would have happened but someone prevented it."

"Well, I can look into it, but I'm not a precog and they know that. I guess I could claim it manifests weirdly in some way I wouldn't have noticed..."

"Not being able to plausibly tell people about Milliways must suck. That having been said, I've never heard anyone else mention Yellowstone exploding, and I've met lots of people from Earths later than 2003."

"So it could easily be just us."

"It's entirely plausible. Is there anyone you could tell about Milliways and expect to be believed, Bar could probably sell you something to help with the ash problem."

"I mean, if I bring home enough weird little robots maybe someone would believe that something happened. Milliways in particular is pretty unbelievable."

"...I know you're phobic but being able to just show someone that you're not lying or joking is so useful."

"Phobia is an irrational fear. If I were irrationally afraid of telepaths, I would, say, not be able to comfortably believe your claims to have ever met an ethic or to have your power under decent control. I am rational amounts of afraid of something that happens to be something most people do not consider particularly important, in much the same way someone who is immunocompromised would have to be warier of sneezing people than I am because they want to be more careful about managing the genuine threat represented and I can just make Alli heal me if I get a cold."

"I apologize for misusing the word. I didn't mean that it was irrational, but apparently I misremembered what phobia meant."