[ she looks at his hand and doesn't seem bothered by his hesitance or by his wish for comfort, but when she says thrice it's said like that's not completely insane ]
At that time, that was the third time. [ she has her own hands behind her back, folded carefully ] It's not quite like an echo. It's them as they are. My dad did it the first time, and they told my mom it failed. It didn't. They were using him to work for them. He broke away, and--things happened. There were issues. He died again. But they'd kept a backup. A copy. And we thought maybe we could fix the issues, and then--
[ gestures helplessly at the mirrors because sometimes the plot of your canon is capitalism is bad actually ]
He is. [ and this isn't like, quite the same, because it's not like her dad spent his entire life like it, but. ] Sometimes death's the only alternative.
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[ she looks at his hand and doesn't seem bothered by his hesitance or by his wish for comfort, but when she says thrice it's said like that's not completely insane ]
At that time, that was the third time. [ she has her own hands behind her back, folded carefully ] It's not quite like an echo. It's them as they are. My dad did it the first time, and they told my mom it failed. It didn't. They were using him to work for them. He broke away, and--things happened. There were issues. He died again. But they'd kept a backup. A copy. And we thought maybe we could fix the issues, and then--
[ gestures helplessly at the mirrors because sometimes the plot of your canon is capitalism is bad actually ]
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CHRISTANDRASTE ALIVE ]... At the very least, he is free now.
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