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Ladder Upon the Wall

Summary:

There's no use climbing the ladder if you're on completely the wrong wall.
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Claire Murphy promised herself she wasn't going to touch Engineering/Mechanics with a ten-foot pole after a rather unfortunate incident pushed her into a universe that held a different night sky than her usual one. Yet, as she gazes at the innocent kid in front of her, her walls melt.
Guess, all it takes is a tiny red-head child in creating a monopolized industry.
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Or, Self-insert falls in Naruto and wants nothing to do with the plot. Her plans revolve around living past her thirty-first birthday and having a happy, content life. But all it takes is a misunderstood kid and one act of kindness which leads to the biggest plot divergence in the world.

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To anyone reading this, you’re going to be absolutely gobsmacked at some stupid (yet important) decisions I have taken that lead to the best worst interesting path I seem to be on right now.

Piece of advice, if you graduate from university and get a job offer by the government, don’t take it. I wonder if that moment was the moment my fate was determined; my freshly graduated self, getting a card from a dude who looked like an MI6 agent. He wore sunglasses indoors, at night! The bells that rang at the back of my drunk mind should’ve tipped me off.

I knew I should’ve listened to my paranoia about government bodied officials and not trusting them. But sue me! I was flooded with euphoria (and high on the odd, bubbly champagne which was being served).

If only I had saved myself from that decision, I wouldn’t be lost. I could have been home, with a family. Or in bed.

Or at least, I could look up into the night sky.

I would never have to think that there would be a day in my life in which I wouldn’t recognize the pattern of the stars. Where I would realize I was no longer in the comfort of my own universe.

I just hope I didn’t end up in a universe where aliens or robots ruled the planet.