"Don't play dumb, U.R.T.V. #669." The false one folded his arms across his chest, a tinge of arrogance lining the act. Or so went Nigredo's imagination--it was far too dark to claim fact. "I'm you."
You're not me. A trick, an illusion, a Head Doctor's form of entertainment. He could list labels and name names, but the truth remained as solid as the other could never be. This was anything but himself.
"Or would you rather I list the evidence? If I know everything about you, I might as well be you." Silence. "Don't you think?"
Nigredo might have shot him, then. There was nothing that told him he couldn't; the other was a danger, and danger had to go. He might have in the next second, if not for the pesky detail regarding the intangible and bullets. That and a girl stepping in-between. Irritation couldn't quite describe what he felt.
"Senna," Nigredo said, more unkindly than he might have meant, "this doesn't have to be your concern."
The other nodded in agreement. "You're just in the way of me killing myself. You--" He smiled, a picture in innocence. "--wouldn't want to be in my way."
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You're not me. A trick, an illusion, a Head Doctor's form of entertainment. He could list labels and name names, but the truth remained as solid as the other could never be. This was anything but himself.
"Or would you rather I list the evidence? If I know everything about you, I might as well be you." Silence. "Don't you think?"
Nigredo might have shot him, then. There was nothing that told him he couldn't; the other was a danger, and danger had to go. He might have in the next second, if not for the pesky detail regarding the intangible and bullets. That and a girl stepping in-between. Irritation couldn't quite describe what he felt.
"Senna," Nigredo said, more unkindly than he might have meant, "this doesn't have to be your concern."
The other nodded in agreement. "You're just in the way of me killing myself. You--" He smiled, a picture in innocence. "--wouldn't want to be in my way."