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Her boyfriend must know how it works.

He thinks he's going to stay there, too.

Afraid that he won't be able to forgive himself if something happens, but aware that he isn't equipped to help either way.

He averts his eyes from you and your attempts to converse.

He is very excited to say the word 'legit'.

Trying to think of an insult. He doesn't like that your name is cooler than his.

He doesn't know what apathy means.

He'd rather have the girl.

Aw, give him something.

You try to picture any of your old assets saying those words -- and come up blank.

You're scaring him.

He doesn't know what 'mercurial' means, you nonce.

Must be. Yana trusted him too.

His Brave Face mask slips from the sweat underneath.

She's drinking from the same bottle, you're fine. Get her drunk, make conversation, see what guts she'll spill.

This woman's reading a solid ZERO on the empath-o-meter.

Flirtatious but firm, she won't talk unless you play along.

A touch of regret in her voice.

She doesn't care at all.

Said more for herself than for you.

Behind her mirrored sunglasses, she's around your age.

No complications whatsoever. If he'll work with the woman who lobotomised him, he'll work with anyone.

A mixture of guilt and the desire to lobotomise him even more comes over you.

He has been subjected to the 'Hershel Wilk Special'. The history of all your former assets, condensed into just a few days.

You are. He did.

Congratulations. You have made your point, and in doing so, you have toppled one of his few psychic pillars.

Lucid, self-aware -- this really isn't the worst version of yourself, all things considered.

The information to process is simply too much. He has no choice but to roll with it.

It's like asking a child with no experience of the world who they'll work with. He has no frame of reference.

It's not obliviousness, at least not primarily-- there's something else holding him back..

It's like watching all the worst parts of yourself bound up in a male body -- and an ugly one, to boot.

This tradition is sacred to him.

Instead of a vegetable, you've created a man in a perpetual psychotic break. And now he's robbing random pedestrians.

The irreverent self-image of a trickster people, eternal underdogs.

Get in her head.

The one that looks just like yours.

She shivers, smiles. Trying to dispel an unwanted thought.

A lost cause. He's not going to budge on this one.

He doesn't think it's for the best at all. Part of him is still hoping that the visions will arrive, albeit late.

Read between the logistical acrobatics -- he just really wants to work with you again.

There is a new mutedness to him, and new shadows too.

That childhood book has a strange grip on him, even now.

Woah, woah, woah, easy! That nickname is offensive and unapproved.

You hurt his feelings.

He's taking this seriously. You should too.

Snagged on a memory. A pleasant one.

How did HOLOCENE become a spy?

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