You guess? Look, masked lady? Do you know me or something? I feel like I would remember someone in a safety suit with swirly fabric.
[Unless he's going really crazy, considering that loss in time between Steve and Bruce.]
I'm not - [Well, yeah, he sorta is. He sighs. Help is help.] - ...copper. I'll need copper wires. A soldering iron. Set of precision tools would be nice, too. But what I really need is money, or... whatever you call them here. Credits. Same thing.
[And that comes as a surprise - and for a moment, she's too taken aback to think of any kind of response, and put on the spot, defaults to a rather defensive truth.]
I've met you. [With emphasis on the 'I've' and 'you'. Because it certainly isn't the other way around.] A couple of times.
[And still making a valiant effort to skate over that subject as much as possible.] Copper's easy to find. If I can find any other quarians on the station, I should be able to convince them to lend me their tools. Credits.... I'm in the same position you are.
[He's briefly reminded of Yinsen, about how they'd supposedly met and Tony hadn't remembered, but Yinsen was human and Tony was drunk off his ass. No amount of drinking could make him forget Tali's appearance.]
...Thanks. [That's a little harder for him to say, because he's not used to people being so charitable.] Can't offer much in compensation. Not yet.
[Quarians, right, sure. That's about the look she's getting from him. He'll try and remember that but, well, Tony. What he remembers and what he doesn't is usually always up in the air.]
Been here a week, more or less. [He shrugs. At least he's calmed down from when he first got here.] All I know is someone somehow pulled me from my nice comfy place in New York on Earth and shoved on a shuttle to this dung hole halfway across the fucking galaxy. Real quaint, this place.
[Tali's had a long time now of being around humans - she knows that look. But she'll happily ignore it if he's not going to say anything.]
Well, I don't know what causes it, but it's some kind of dimensional rift. Maybe it's a macroscopic manifestation of quantum mechanics gone wrong or.... Whatever it is, Omega's been turned into one. Or a rift has... taken on the form of Omega. I don't know the specifics. Anyway, there's more than one of them. And I came here from another one. You were in one of those.
[Those last sentences especially are reluctant because this all sounds so crazy - but how much crazier, relatively, than waking up to find yourself at the opposite side of the galaxy to where you started out?]
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I'm not from around here. Don't think there's a fixer upper for what I have.
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Does the name Abax mean anything to you?
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Nnnnno. Nope, not a thing. ...Should it?
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No, I guess it shouldn't.
[And a very quick change of subject.] If you're working on an implant, do you need anything else?
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[Unless he's going really crazy, considering that loss in time between Steve and Bruce.]
I'm not - [Well, yeah, he sorta is. He sighs. Help is help.] - ...copper. I'll need copper wires. A soldering iron. Set of precision tools would be nice, too. But what I really need is money, or... whatever you call them here. Credits. Same thing.
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I've met you. [With emphasis on the 'I've' and 'you'. Because it certainly isn't the other way around.] A couple of times.
[And still making a valiant effort to skate over that subject as much as possible.] Copper's easy to find. If I can find any other quarians on the station, I should be able to convince them to lend me their tools. Credits.... I'm in the same position you are.
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[He's briefly reminded of Yinsen, about how they'd supposedly met and Tony hadn't remembered, but Yinsen was human and Tony was drunk off his ass. No amount of drinking could make him forget Tali's appearance.]
...Thanks. [That's a little harder for him to say, because he's not used to people being so charitable.] Can't offer much in compensation. Not yet.
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And then she lets out an explosive sigh.] Okay, how long have you been here - what do you know about what brought you here?
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Been here a week, more or less. [He shrugs. At least he's calmed down from when he first got here.] All I know is someone somehow pulled me from my nice comfy place in New York on Earth and shoved on a shuttle to this dung hole halfway across the fucking galaxy. Real quaint, this place.
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Well, I don't know what causes it, but it's some kind of dimensional rift. Maybe it's a macroscopic manifestation of quantum mechanics gone wrong or.... Whatever it is, Omega's been turned into one. Or a rift has... taken on the form of Omega. I don't know the specifics. Anyway, there's more than one of them. And I came here from another one. You were in one of those.
[Those last sentences especially are reluctant because this all sounds so crazy - but how much crazier, relatively, than waking up to find yourself at the opposite side of the galaxy to where you started out?]