"Everyone's entitled to a secret identity," she says. "But I guess you know theirs already after all."

She breathes a sigh of relief. "That's - actually really reassuring. If you were from my future, and - I wasn't there." She shrugs, uneasy. "Well, it's not the best thought."

Alternate universes, though, that's a weird one. There was an incident once that was rumored to be the Justice League from an alternate universe, but nobody ever figured out much about it and the Justice League didn't really talk about it. Alternate universes were a whole shenanigan-level up from the stuff her team dealt with.

Deals with. The stuff they deal with, present tense. "Okay, so, alternate universes. With that more or less out of the way - you said you work with someone, here? I don't need names, but I am interested in what you can safely tell me."