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This video is making me gayer out of spite,' Jules muttered, clear even from the other side of the room.

Ava had never really had to deal with an emergency; just the slow disaster that was her life.

Of course Jules was alive, they had never faced a challenge whose ass they couldn't kick, and they had the stores of righteous rage that all retail employees collected.

She'd lived with fear and anxiety for so long, and fell into fits of dread and despair over the smallest things. Going to work. Making a dentist appointment. Grocery shopping. The light right after the sun went down, when she realized she'd accomplished almost nothing that day. All normal things that normal people could deal with, and she was never equal to the challenge of them. Catastrophe seemed to lurk around every corner, and she felt constantly out of control.

We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!

Existence isn’t a gift, it’s a right, Jules had replied. But having to reclaim it every day makes life easier to appreciate, maybe.

My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit.

I guess I'm too much of a grammar nazi!" ... Ava wondered, not for the first time, why anyone would so proudly declare themselves to be any kind of nazi.

I will trade you my soul for coffee," they'd said solemnly. Then, when they saw that all Ava had were Nifty! brand beans from PriceLow, they cringed and said, "Those only get part of my soul.

Every world has it's monsters. I've been watching the news and yours is no exception.

We'll keep each other firmly on this earth.

I understand this was a stressful shift for you," she said. "Why don't you take the rest of the day off? You've got some PTO saved up, I think.

Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while.

Existence isn’t a gift, it’s a right…but having to reclaim it every day makes life easier to appreciate, maybe.

To go where she wanted, she had to get lost, and it seemed almost instinctual to do that now.

It showed me that there were infinite possibilities, at all times. After I made captain of the Anahita, I worried over every decision, doubted whether I was brave or smart or strong enough to pull my mission off and protect my crew. I could remind myself that somewhere in the multiverse of possibility, there existed a world where I was all of those things. Maybe it was the world that I already lived in.

they had the stores of righteous rage that all retail employees collected.

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It's what everyone thinks," Jules said. Their face - normally open, armed with joy and humor - was stony and closed off. "Like doing things my own way is the most ridiculous shit they've ever heard of, even though it's the only way I've ever been happy. Nobody says it to my face, but everyone here treats me like it's a miracle I've gotten this far on my own

The unique layout of LitenVärld encourages wormholes to form between universes. These wormholes connect our stores to LitenVärlds in parallel worlds.

It's okay," Jules said. They looked....not calm, exactly, but not scared. They looked, as they had for most of their trip, thrilled that they weren't getting misgendered while answering customers' stupid questions about how much weight a towel rod could really hold.

The showrooms sat next to each other uneasily, like habitats in a hyper-condensed zoo. Here was the habitat for the Pan-Asian Appropriating White Yoga Instructor, complete with tatami mats and a statue of Shiva; next

Ava wondered, not for the first time, why anyone would so proudly declare themselves to be any kind of nazi.

Seriously?” Jules said. They sighed with melodramatic disappointment. “We find a wrinkle in time and you tell the manager?

It was hard to articulate what Ava wanted, even to herself. She didn’t want to find Jules and run straight back into their arms. But she’d felt something new growing between them, something fragile but important. And she wanted to protect that, nourish it, and see it mature.

She didn’t know if Jules was dead. They were Schrödinger’s Cat at this point, alive and dead and all points in between until Ava made a choice to find out.

Every world has its monsters. I’ve been watching the news, and yours is no exception.

They had told her once that they’d never expected to live to be twenty-five, and they still had a hard time imagining that they’d live to be thirty.

but Ava could hear everything Jules was feeling in those two words: grief, but also acceptance,

She’d lived with fear and anxiety for so long, and fell into fits of dread and despair over the smallest things. Going to work. Making a dentist appointment. Grocery shopping. The light right after the sun went down, when she realized she’d accomplished almost nothing that day. All normal things that normal people could deal with, and she was never equal to the challenge of them. Catastrophe seemed to lurk around every corner, and she felt constantly out of control.