Aw, thanks <3 But, ha, yeah, L'Engle really does do this Quester mindset thing where her characters are always being the Absolute Best at Whatever (as landofnowhere said above). As I said in the raspberryhunter post, it would have been nice to have a version of Meg who was a scientist but didn't have to be a world-class one and who might have had a couple of kids to whom she wasn't always available full-time -- but I was worried I would identify too much with that version and not enough with the others, which wasn't the point of that story :P Still, there may be another AU in there somewhere...

Ahahahaha, yeah, my beta was all "...why are you worried about science in a L'Engle story?" "Fair." So, sure, if time travel is a thing that happens, maybe it makes parallel universes collide, right?