[Howard absolutely does need it to fortify himself, and he takes a long swig as she talks, his Adam's apple bobbing as he drinks. But he's also listening to every word she says.]
Wonderland? [He sets the bottle down and arches an eyebrow.] You follow a white rabbit there?
[Never mind that she certainly hadn't gone missing for any length of time at home; they've already established that this involved time travel somehow, and so something like that seems negligible.]
Anyone else, I'd ask if they'd been on drugs. [But not Peggy, not with him.] We - I say we, but frankly, it was mostly Doctor Wilkes and Whitney Frost - figured out that the Zero Matter came from another dimension. According to Wilkes, it had devoured everything in that world and wanted to come to ours to do the same. So it's not too much of a stretch to assume that there are even more universes out there.
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Wonderland? [He sets the bottle down and arches an eyebrow.] You follow a white rabbit there?
[Never mind that she certainly hadn't gone missing for any length of time at home; they've already established that this involved time travel somehow, and so something like that seems negligible.]
Anyone else, I'd ask if they'd been on drugs. [But not Peggy, not with him.] We - I say we, but frankly, it was mostly Doctor Wilkes and Whitney Frost - figured out that the Zero Matter came from another dimension. According to Wilkes, it had devoured everything in that world and wanted to come to ours to do the same. So it's not too much of a stretch to assume that there are even more universes out there.