Hard to say, [ peter says, attention flickering back up to villanelle. ] She says she's from Earth, but that doesn't preclude her from having been here whenever whatever happened here happened.

[ he thinks, vaguely and loosely, of a time across time when he'd been stuck with logan — oh, sure, it'd been fun in retrospect, a total barrel of laughs living on a sort-of version of planet of the apes, worrying about the cretaceous-tertiary extinction event, about eating aunt may's muffins and lying about it, robotic dinosaurs and doctor doom (unrelated), but the point is that none of this needs to be linear or make a degree of rational sense.

(doom had helped him time travel once, too, back into (a version of) his past to deal with the issue of the tinkerer and aliens and—

—why is his life so complicated? whilst it means he has a wealth of similar-yet-different scenarios to compare and contrast this — all of it — to, it still hasn't provided him with any absolute answers.) ] Time isn't linear, and Beacon's particularly egregious in its approach to it, so... [ a breath of a pause, and peter looks briefly at bruce, the slight movement of his head drawing peter's focus. he shifts his weight and shuffles back a couple of steps; bruce pulls open the trapdoor with relative ease.

he doesn't think there's a person in beacon that hadn't wondered what was below the trapdoor. he's not convinced it'll answer the question of what brings them back when they die, but that doesn't mean he's not curious. based on their bell escapade, he's also not entirely expecting the cause of the noise to still be down there by the time they're down there, but—

only one way to find out, right? ]