Huh. I knew alternate versions of a person was not the same as knowing that person at all, but it struck me as unfair all the same. I wanted to have connections here, ones that were already formed on some level rather than needing to be created and cultivated. I wanted someone who recognized my city and could talk to me about things that were familiar, made sense. Not that I didn't like the friends and acquaintances that I had made here already, but there was something to be said for having common ground.

I did notice too that Cindy wasn't using any names, which was a little weird but also not? She might not have been thinking about it, but I was curious nonetheless.

I nodded a little as she continued. It did strike me as odd that there were a lot of people here who knew some place like New York, who had some common baseline, but everything else could weave away so drastically. Or that we were all so very white, for the most part.

"Hydra sounds like something out of Worlds-- Uh." No one knew about Worlds War 3 around here. I had to get with the program. "A video game, back home. Is that some kind of creature? Because I'm bad a the mythology thing that evil organizations seem to love."