[ Well, there it is. Simon stops, half-turned to her, searching for an inflection, or an expression, or... something. Even when A2 has 2B’s Pod, even when A2 said the 2B partnered with 9S as if they were unique, even when 2B, the one he knows, showed up without her Pod — he’d still managed to cling to the idea that it was another 2B that was killed out of mercy in the throes of a deadly virus. Not that it wasn’t still unfair and horrible, but it wasn’t a friend.
And it was easy to keep thinking it, because now she was here, and now she’s tugging at the end of the thread to unravel it all. ]
A2 told me—
She said she killed you. On Earth. But you came here from Hathaway, and you’re... alive.
[ one could not be blamed for thinking Simon is having an amazingly hard time with this, for a dead guy who’s standing here holding a conversation. But she came here straight from Hathaway. And she’d had Pod, then, the entire time. ]
How- how is that possible? [ his voice is strained and confused. Somehow 2B’s placidity makes it.... worse? He can’t tell who it’s for, or if it’s even really fake. ]
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And it was easy to keep thinking it, because now she was here, and now she’s tugging at the end of the thread to unravel it all. ]
A2 told me—
She said she killed you. On Earth. But you came here from Hathaway, and you’re... alive.
[ one could not be blamed for thinking Simon is having an amazingly hard time with this, for a dead guy who’s standing here holding a conversation. But she came here straight from Hathaway. And she’d had Pod, then, the entire time. ]
How- how is that possible? [ his voice is strained and confused. Somehow 2B’s placidity makes it.... worse? He can’t tell who it’s for, or if it’s even really fake. ]