Jaime nodded. "We met here," she agreed. "I ... had no intention, at all, of starting a relationship. Worked pretty hard to avoid it, actually, but ..." She shrugged and glanced toward the window. "But it happened anyway." She was silent for a moment, then shook her head. "I don't regret it." While she was familiar with the feeling of waking up afraid he was gone, she didn't for a moment regret forming the relationship. Or letting it happen. Whichever.
She shrugged to the question. "I don't know. She -- Bridget, the chick we met -- she didn't really say anything one way or another, but I just assume they're pretty against creating situations like that in whole realities. He'd have no one in my reality to be merged with. Could get messy." That was if she understood the concept of and need for merging technology.