'Crap' is an accurate summation. OA is still reeling, sifting desperately through possibilities. Was Nina... real? She felt real -- felt, full stop. Thought. Reasoned. Understood.
"I remember," she says again, dully, though this time it isn't merely a statement of fact. She's making a point. "Why do I remember Nina, but she didn't remember me?"
She leans towards Sniper urgently, looking up into their face. She'd told them to come to her and they had. This needs solving, will be solved; she's not going to give up on them. Not if they were distressed enough to carve those letters into their own arm, as she suspects. Not if they came to her specifically, whether by design or by quirk of fate.
She's no less angry at the broader injustice of it -- the delay from her mission, the lack of choice. Angry that Nina lived, angrier still that she had, as the inevitable result of her unnatural birth, to die young.
Maybe that isn't it. Maybe she still lives in OA, who remembers her. Maybe she can be conjured back, or maybe the burden of two lives is something she'll have to carry forever. Was that not always on the table?
"Have you ever died, Ojiro?" Her expression brooks no argument. There's no threat of a more direct anger, only urgency: failure to answer honestly will only slow them down.
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"I remember," she says again, dully, though this time it isn't merely a statement of fact. She's making a point. "Why do I remember Nina, but she didn't remember me?"
She leans towards Sniper urgently, looking up into their face. She'd told them to come to her and they had. This needs solving, will be solved; she's not going to give up on them. Not if they were distressed enough to carve those letters into their own arm, as she suspects. Not if they came to her specifically, whether by design or by quirk of fate.
She's no less angry at the broader injustice of it -- the delay from her mission, the lack of choice. Angry that Nina lived, angrier still that she had, as the inevitable result of her unnatural birth, to die young.
Maybe that isn't it. Maybe she still lives in OA, who remembers her. Maybe she can be conjured back, or maybe the burden of two lives is something she'll have to carry forever. Was that not always on the table?
"Have you ever died, Ojiro?" Her expression brooks no argument. There's no threat of a more direct anger, only urgency: failure to answer honestly will only slow them down.