Abby raised an eyebrow at Cam's questions. The trickster in her itched to tell the little girl that she was from the future, but not only was that remark corny, but Cam wouldn't get it. "The United States is the name of the country I'm from," she said as she sat on the side of the bed, "It doesn't exist in your world. Maybe you haven't noticed, but the people here come from all sorts of times and places. While there is a Rome in my world, I've never been there. and it isn't as big as it would be for you."
She sighed, slipping off her shoes and setting her stockinged feet on the windowsill. She wasn't equipped to be anyone's surrogate big sister, let alone one to a girl from a place she barely understood. She was a criminal, for goodness' sake! Yet here she was all the same, stuck with an odd little girl and too damn sentimental to just leave her on her own. Maybe this was karma getting back at her in a way that would last.
"My world has a lot more in common with this one than yours does, I think," she said. She snatched the remote control on the bedside table and turned on the TV. She flickered through the channels and eventually landed on a cartoon. The characters were completely unfamiliar to her; probably a show from some alternate reality. "We don't have flying cars - um, the things people are riding through the air - but we do have T.V.s like that one, and computers, though nothing as advanced as Adam."
She sighed, slipping off her shoes and setting her stockinged feet on the windowsill. She wasn't equipped to be anyone's surrogate big sister, let alone one to a girl from a place she barely understood. She was a criminal, for goodness' sake! Yet here she was all the same, stuck with an odd little girl and too damn sentimental to just leave her on her own. Maybe this was karma getting back at her in a way that would last.
"My world has a lot more in common with this one than yours does, I think," she said. She snatched the remote control on the bedside table and turned on the TV. She flickered through the channels and eventually landed on a cartoon. The characters were completely unfamiliar to her; probably a show from some alternate reality. "We don't have flying cars - um, the things people are riding through the air - but we do have T.V.s like that one, and computers, though nothing as advanced as Adam."