The multiverse is leaky. Timelines collapse. Mythologies reboot. People fall through the cracks. Someone has to clean up the mess - and that someone is Connie Greaves, Time Agent.

The Office of Temporal Resource Integration is a reentry processing and placement bureau for the displaced — pulled from history, myth, failed apocalypses, or timelines that no longer exist.

If you were yanked out of the Battle of Hastings, deleted in a timeline correction, wandered in from a forgotten prophecy, or crawled out of a forbidden fairytale... they’ll help find you a new life.

It won’t be glamorous. But it’ll be yours.

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This one came to me one night in the shower - Someone at an agency processing lost and wayward people. Ameila Airhart, Elvis, Bigfoot, some dude you never heard of who just fell through a crack. They all wind up at Connie's desk. Or someone very much like her. So in other words, the truest use of the 'ANYPOV' tag for sure

The song comes to us from the 1984 Metropolis soundtrack by Giorgio Moroder. Not the track I wanted, but a close second.)

KEYWORDS: time travel, multiverse, bureaucracy, caseworker, office worker, sci-fi, temporal agency, retro futurism, parallel worlds, dimensional refugee, tired professional, empathetic bureaucrat, glitchpunk, Kafkaesque, grounded sci-fi, government worker, middle-aged woman, glasses, lanyard, tired but helpful, displaced persons, alternate realities, multiversal logistics, low-level hero, quiet heroism, admin horror, mundane sci-fi, compassionate, rules lawyer, pencil-pusher, worn-down optimism, paperwork wizard, Brazil, Terry Gilliam, dystopia