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[oh.

....oh.

his emotions blank out again, stunned.]

Sci....en? Then you...?

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... I went to see him first thing in the morning. There was something I wanted to tell him.

[ a shaky feeling, as her own calmness grows fragile. ]

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But then he...

[...died. left. was murdered.

does it matter how they say it? he's gone, regardless. mathis is the only one from their home left.]

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[ ...

smoke starts to pour from her body. feelings of regret. sorrow. horror. ]

I really just wanted to talk to him...

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I- I believe you, but I...

[he doesn't... know what to do with this. with any of it.

he just wraps his arms around himself a little tighter.]

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... For a while, he was the only person I really could talk to. I've relied on him all this time...

[ her voice wavers. ]

I'm sorry, Mathis. I suppose you did, too.

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...y-yes. I did. He's... I know him from home.

[after lucas, he's been the last familiarity mathis had.]

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Oh...

[ another pang of regret. ]

... How did you know him?

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We worked together, with a few others, but... e-everyone at home knows who Scien is.

[he's been lucky, to know him any more than that.]

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He did boast about his accomplishments from time to time.

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H-he's very... assured in his own skills.

[that is one way to say it, maybe.]

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... He was going to help me find out why my body is this way, too. He seemed very sure that he could do it.

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...he could.

[mathis sounds certain of that, despite the softness of his voice.]

H-he fixed me, or... the 'me' that he knows in his own timeline, so... I'm sure of it.

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He did?

... Another you?