Legend

Myriad Reality

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I, uhh…
*Skirts my gaze around the work to look back to you and nod*
Yeah. Feel that.

@Audacious

We also learned that she's a clone. Somehow.

Myriad Reality

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Thank you for that. It means a lot to me, to make sure he never wakes again.

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*Raises an eyebrow to your expression, looks past you, and immediately averts my attention elsewhere, scrunching my face up tightly*

@Audacious

Violet, please remind me to never ever never be a doctor.

Myriad Reality

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That's why it's worth asking, but deciding that I know better than she does for how she should live is harmful regardless of the outcome.

*Turns my attention to the bit in my gloved hand, which is now the length of an earthworm. It shudders a little before I look back to Stella*

Parenting is a catch twenty two, unfortunately.

@Yatagarasu

*My face turns a pale shade of green*

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*Steps through the fissure and looks around*
… Everyone make it through?

@Audacious

*Hushed*
Never been better.

Myriad Reality

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Then a full body restoration it is.

*Looks over at the metal square as the bit I cut out grows slightly before splitting into two*

Seems the soul-trap is working, that's good. We can strengthen it in a bit.

*Walks off to place one of the two pieces of Artemis into a machine that seems to be filled with water, then comes back*

If there's nothing we can salvage to speed things up, then it's just a waiting game.

*The piece I still have in my hand begins to visibly grow*

@Yatagarasu

IIIIIII'm gonna be sick.
*Starts to lose my footing*
Be strong Isis, be strong.

Myriad Reality

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I wouldn't trust any of them anymore.
*Pulls the glass down and stares the body up and down directly, my eyes shimmering*
Unless we run into some kind of complication, there's no point in salvaging anymore. This body is ruined.

@Memory

Is there any way to tell if this is the same Artemis I know?

Myriad Reality

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*Glances at Isis*

Not that it changes anything, but do you have any idea if that was always the case? Or do you think the original is the one you knew and this is a different one than you knew?

*To Stella*

If that's the case, this should be pretty simple. You mentioned liquefied organs, are any of them intact?

@Yatagarasu

*Without changing the direction of my gaze, calls Artemis, only for the call to be unable to connect*
I don't know. I didn't know she had any clones.

Myriad Reality

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*Puffs one cheek and looks at the ceiling for a second before getting back to Artemis' corpse after putting on the gloves*
That's really more Dawn's area—
*Mumbles and pulls out a bone fragment connected to marrow*
if she could ever get a grip that is—Looks to be a variant of true humanoid. Generic class episilon.
*Holds the fragment in front of my magnifying glass*
And this one... definitely a clone.

@Memory

What do you mean clone?

Myriad Reality

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The guy put a self-destruct on a doomsday weapon? That seems counter-intuitive.

*Finishes the symbol and sets the square above Artemis' head on the table*

Stella, do you see anything that would imply her species? Don't want to use the wrong tool on accident.

*Puts on a pair of gloves and grabs a scalpel, as well as a pair of gloves for Stella*

@Yatagarasu

I've been asked a big list of questions today I don't know the answers to. Throw that one on top of the pile.

Myriad Reality

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Blunt force trauma. Extensive degloving across patient's body. Organ liquidation. It looks like something between a pressure wave and a mechanical crushing injury.

@Memory

Well, that. She got caught in a self-destruct explosion of Dark Dynamo's doomsday weapon.

Myriad Reality

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*Nods and walks over to a table, grabbing a syringe and a flat metal square*

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Oh, no, there's no danger of that.

*I walk back over to Artemis and draw some blood from her*

How did the battle go, by the way? You won, but it seems to have cost a lot for 'Arty,' at the least. Knowing what happened could be useful.

*Takes the syringe and carefully draws a symbol on the metal square with the blood*

@Yatagarasu

She—