... Generally speaking. [a light correction, after a bit of hesitance.] Whether it's the exact dimensional coordinates or not... impossible to tell without data to cross-reference. It hardly matters.

[the initial assumption isn't wrong, though. the people he met in his own timeline, the versions of his friends that he travelled with and cherished... he wouldn't accept any replacements so carelessly, no matter how seemingly identical they were. but since Noah is someone he never met in his world, this version of Noah that he knows now... if he ever did cross paths with another, whether he originated from Add's timeline or not, he wouldn't make an acceptable replacement either.

time and space is infinite, but each of those infinite instances are still unique. if he didn't believe that, his journey would've ended years ago, back when he first reached the past he wanted for himself...

none of that is voiced for now, though, because he mind is being directed elsewhere and he's had just enough to drink to consider humouring it.]

We weren't that close... we were just travelling in the same group, that's all. He was an interesting specimen, when he wasn't being nosy...