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[latkje]

[ This is Nash. He has a pleasant but lazy expression. ]

I don't like to live in the past. It makes me feel old. But when a thought eats at you, sometimes the only thing you can do is take a bite, right?

Anyway, a few weeks ago something the Initiative did put people in their wrong bodies. I don't mean to drudge up bad memories, but— think about it. What are we, really? Hands, feet, fingers, eyes?

We've all got bodies, but souls? [ He shakes his head. ] Not for me to say.

But if the Initiative can keep our fingers and toes and move the rest around, it means there has to be something else, right? And whatever that something else is, the Initiative can mess with it it.

[ The implications are spooky, so he takes a moment to be spooked. And then waves that all away, shrugging. ]

You ever stop to think, and not know how to start up again?

Comments

[marked_for_death]

Well you are a rather busy man.

[latkje]

I seem to get into trouble when I try to keep still.

[marked_for_death]

I seem to remember you getting in just enough trouble when you were moving, or have you forgotten the state you were in when we met in that forest near Greenhills? Or will you try and tell me that wound was a mere harmless scratch?

[latkje]

I didn't say I don't get into trouble when I keep moving.

[marked_for_death]

Then you better make certain that you're more specific then. You wouldn't want a girl to get the wrong impression now, would you?

[latkje]

Actually, I specialize in the wrong impression.

[marked_for_death]

Perhaps I should be more specific. You wouldn't want me to get the wrong impression. Unless that is your goal all along? [Not that she'll fall for his tricks. She knows what you're like, but it's just too much fun toying with you.]