Rikki wasn't sure that she believed Robin's threat to "carve up" other-Sharon to find out more about her. Surely with modern technology Robin's team could learn much more by studying her alive - observing her behaviour, taking cell samples, carrying out MRI scans and the like - than they could hope to do from dissecting her corpse? But regardless of whether she - Rikki - agreed to help them or not, it seemed unlikely that they would let other-Sharon go anytime soon. She suspected that that might apply to Jim too, for all that Robin had said that once the sex-change formula had been stabilised the four of them could leave. Surely she wouldn't want to let a scientist as able as Jim slip through her fingers?
Should she tell Robin that she didn't believe her threat regarding other-Sharon? Perhaps it would be better not too. If Robin was underestimating her (Rikki), then it might be preferable if she continued to do so.
She had noted Robin's claim that this world had had the technology to access the multiverse since 1972. That would seem to imply that on this world someone had beaten Jim to developing it by a very wide margin. Unless? Could this world be measuring its years from a different starting point than the supposed birth of Christ? If so, then that suggested that this world differed from her own much more significantly than was immediately obvious. Perhaps Christianity wasn't the dominant Western religion here?
"So will you help?" Robin asked again, evidently getting impatient as Rikki tried to analyse what Robin had told her.
"All right," she said. It must be good to help get Jim's condition stabilised. And if helping in that would get her out of her cell, which seemed likely, so much the better. Not only would it make her own situation much more pleasant, but perhaps she might even get an opportunity to help other-Sharon.
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