Shuri & Tony
Shuri wasn't familiar with the Dried Blueberry Club, but would have been honoured had she been aware. As it was, she was pleased he would share his personal stash with her. She stuck her free hand in the bag and withdrew with about six berries.
"Thank you and exactly. A complete universe, fractured from the Prime one due to something the Doctah did when fighting a dark and horrible entity, or so I gather." Dr. Strange didn't speak in riddles, per se, but he tended not to answer in a direct manner. "I know what you mean. How is it we had the remaining Infinity Stone? And how is it we were aware of any of them in the first place? We even knew the place where one of them was kept." That would've been Asgard, initially. It went somewhere else after that, as she understood it, but how many people knew the God of Thunder or the God of Mischief?
She popped a blueberry into her mouth, chewed and had a sip of her drink before swallowing. "Those are good. So. Playing with strings is just annoying sometimes. I favour the quantum approach. I think there are infinite universes, fractures, parallel playgrounds, whatever you like to call them. I do not think very small changes, like deciding to order Chinese food on a Friday instead of your usual pizza, will split off into a separate universe. Something like utilizing the Time Stone and defeating a Big Bad is a small event when compared with the entire universe, as I think the Doctah was focused on saving Earth, but the ripples expanding from this event were sufficient to cause the fracture."
Shuri gestured toward the wedding guests with her glass. Nothing was spilled. "If one of them steps on a butterfly, barring interference from our revolving door tear, we will all still wake up in the morning. It isn't enough. I think if an Earth collapses, the others continue on. Some might be modified, depending on their proximity to the one that disappears and the nature of what caused the disappearance, but the only one affected is that particular universe, which happens to include Earth, which seems to behave like a cosmic trouble magnet or maybe..." She had another thought. "Maybe Earth is a fixed point in time and space. Not the only one, I should think, but one of the constants in the universe, which is why so many extraordinary events occur here."
She popped another blueberry. They really did help make thinking easier.