For a moment, the question threw me. It seemed oddly familiar, this date, and I wracked my mind, sifting through memories ... certainly, the first September that had come to mind had been the one of '33, when the first steps of the so called Liberation had been taken and the battle for Genaros was waged ...
But that wasn't it, I was certain, and not just because I remember us hijacking the shuttle on the 13th. Whatever memory I was being nagged by, it didn't have the feel I associated with something I'd processed through a machine mind ... the eleventh of September.
Eleventh, ninth ...
At the risk of sounding cliche - it hit me like a brick in the face, inducing massive blinkage as I called up memories from before I'd met Sylvie. Ones that sometimes seemed more unreal than even my current situation.
Wait, this was an EVA timeline. Didn't NYC get flooded as a result Second Impact?
So, unless there was some sort of freaky Destiny and Fate thing about the date ...
"New York City, two double-oh one," I said, slowly ... then blinked as I realized we'd been using English from the first word of this awkward conversation.
"Not exactly local history, is it?" I followed up, with appropriate emphasis.
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm
But that wasn't it, I was certain, and not just because I remember us hijacking the shuttle on the 13th. Whatever memory I was being nagged by, it didn't have the feel I associated with something I'd processed through a machine mind ... the eleventh of September.
Eleventh, ninth ...
At the risk of sounding cliche - it hit me like a brick in the face, inducing massive blinkage as I called up memories from before I'd met Sylvie. Ones that sometimes seemed more unreal than even my current situation.
Wait, this was an EVA timeline. Didn't NYC get flooded as a result Second Impact?
So, unless there was some sort of freaky Destiny and Fate thing about the date ...
"New York City, two double-oh one," I said, slowly ... then blinked as I realized we'd been using English from the first word of this awkward conversation.
"Not exactly local history, is it?" I followed up, with appropriate emphasis.
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm