No, it... [She instinctively sounds defensive, of all things, before she settles.] Only in part. It's... Do you know the Schrodinger's cat paradox?
[As much as the hug means to her, it's becoming increasingly difficult to storytell like this, so she pulls away to settle against Luke's side again, not wanting to leave completely.] The short version is that... Imagine you have a cat in a box with a vial of poison gas. If certain conditions are met within an hour, that vial breaks, and the cat dies. If that condition isn't met, the box opens in an hour and the cat lives. But for that hour, you don't know whether the cat is alive or dead. The theory is that the cat is both alive and dead.
[Explaining thought experiments at weird times is pretty much Clover's forte, this happens a lot, sorry about my canon, so she goes through this easily enough. It's only once she's done that she's slumping again, quiet and cautious.]
That's a really, really basic explanation, but the point is that June was Schrodinger's girl. ...My brother was on that ship. He was there when she died. I grew up knowing she died. But she was still right there during the second nonary game. And the second nonary game let one boy use the morphogenetic field to communicate with June nine years in the past to fulfil the condition then to keep her alive.
[...she looks confused, too. SORRY ABOUT MY CANON]
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[As much as the hug means to her, it's becoming increasingly difficult to storytell like this, so she pulls away to settle against Luke's side again, not wanting to leave completely.] The short version is that... Imagine you have a cat in a box with a vial of poison gas. If certain conditions are met within an hour, that vial breaks, and the cat dies. If that condition isn't met, the box opens in an hour and the cat lives. But for that hour, you don't know whether the cat is alive or dead. The theory is that the cat is both alive and dead.
[Explaining thought experiments at weird times is pretty much Clover's forte, this happens a lot, sorry about my canon, so she goes through this easily enough. It's only once she's done that she's slumping again, quiet and cautious.]
That's a really, really basic explanation, but the point is that June was Schrodinger's girl. ...My brother was on that ship. He was there when she died. I grew up knowing she died. But she was still right there during the second nonary game. And the second nonary game let one boy use the morphogenetic field to communicate with June nine years in the past to fulfil the condition then to keep her alive.
[...she looks confused, too. SORRY ABOUT MY CANON]