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[skyagain]

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[skyagain]

You think? Feels like the stuff we honed in on might have been part of the frame job, if that picture hint meant anything.

[ktiseos]

If that was what it meant, then it is possible. I do not think we could say with any certainty, especially not now.

[skyagain]

We can't, but that's about the only sense I can ascribe to it.

[ktiseos]

...I suppose that at this point, what matters more to dwell upon is whether there would be any reason to force someone to act a second time.

[skyagain]

Yeah. That's the question. [ he frowns looking at his metal hand ] ... If they keep possessing more, maybe that's the entertainment value. More killers, more bodies.

[ktiseos]

Keep an eye out, then, for any sort of suspicious behavior. It was possible in the Prism to identify it in those who were refracted, though I do not know if this would show in anyone similarly afflicted here.

[skyagain]

Refracted?

[ sometimes i think about how no one ever explains chroma to cloud. but he can guess it's like possession ]

Hard to say. There's no way to tell when they're first possessed, but it's true we've never had someone get away enough to check for after. They did say it's more... like a compulsion, though.

[ktiseos]

So they have. Still-- I would prefer to remain watchful, rather than simply assume there will be naught for us to see.

[skyagain]

Yeah. But I also don't want to immediately assume anyone acting weird is a killer. We never know what can pop up in these places. So... vigilance, not paranoia.

[ktiseos]

What, do I seem the paranoid sort to you?

[skyagain]

Pretty sure the other you was a little. [ it's said like a joke, though. ]

[ktiseos]

I assure you that we have our differences.

[kind of snippy, even if he can tell it sounds joking.]

[skyagain]

A lot of them, yeah. Sore spot?

[ that's the closest he'll get to apologizing ]

[ktiseos]

[his wings are very ruffled.]

He is not someone I would wish to be associated with, had I a choice in the matter.

[skyagain]

Fair enough. I'm guessing a lot of people here expect you to end up there no matter what, huh?

[ktiseos]

...some version of me must. Otherwise, he would not exist.

[skyagain]

A version, sure. But that doesn't have to mean you.

[ktiseos]

That may be so. I do not intend for it to be me, regardless.

[skyagain]

Then you might as well think of it like some weird mirror version of you.

[ktiseos]

-would that I could. But I cannot quite take it that far.

[skyagain]

Why not?

[ktiseos]

Because I have already been informed of that future, in my own home, from someone who has experienced it.

[skyagain]

... So... a time traveler?

[ktiseos]

Something of the sort. I had hoped they may still be wrong, but to hear others speak of this future self of mine they have met--

It lends all the more credibility to their tale.

[skyagain]

... Just because the future was written once doesn't mean you can't unwrite it.