“Wait…” Clara said as her mind moved tangentially to a subject they never delved into.

“Why could I see you moving through those first two realities as though you were there?”

Julia made a circle using her index and thumb and moved the tip of her nose in and out several times.

“Fuck knows,” Julia said. “Part of me wants to say it had something to do with my not existing.”

“Huh?” Clara asked, trying to wrap her mind around that statement. “So there was no version of you there?”

“Yeah,” Julia said. “I could walk around, see, and hear what was going on.”