Memory

Myriad Reality

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I meant th-
*Shakes my head*
Nevermind. From what I heard- I got here late- is that they know she’s a clone. But might need you to verify that for certain?

@Audacious

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I... I could, but honestly Stella's—

@Meta

They want to figure out whether the patient is the same version of their friend that they recognize, not a different clone. Apparently they didn't realize they were friends with a clone at all until today.

Myriad Reality

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You do radiate confidence, and the enthusiasm that cones with it. That’s not such a bad thing, is it?

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*Holds my hands out toward you to emphasize your point*

@Audacious

Well, we said we were going to fix your friend, right? We'd look bad if we weren't ready to do something way harder than that.

Myriad Reality

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Oh yeah, we’ve met her.
*Looks her way*
She’s got some pep in her, for sure.

@Audacious

*Sticks my gloves into one of the sanitizing mists*
I'm tempted to resent that.

Myriad Reality

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*Narrows my eyes ever so slightly in thought*
… Scarily good. I give you scarily good.

@Audacious

Just wait and see. You'll be impressed.

Myriad Reality

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Typically that'll do insignificant 'dimming,' just barely enough to be notable. But most types of souls recover from that pretty quickly, even outside of the body.

@Yatagarasu

Can they make a soul harder to recover? Like some kind of anti-recovery poison?

Myriad Reality

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Looks like we’ll get to ask, too. These folks seem like a well oiled machine.

@Audacious

*Snaps*
Best in all the worlds.

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*Smiles and records another*

Thanks, Dawn. I appreciate it. We're in Lab K. I'll cover things before you get here.

*Sends the message*

Dawn'll be here in a little bit. Let's get the patient covered up.

*Looks to Envy*

Take her dad to another area for a bit, okay?

*Envy nods and picks his corpse up, walking through a door in the back as I start draping sheets over Artemis*

Oh, right.

*Places the growing spinal cord in a box*

Well, Stella, in most human-esque species, the soul is interlinked with part of the consciousness. The more you feel something extreme, especially things like hatred, the more the soul reacts. If she was trying to harm herself, for example, that would link to a dimming of her soul.

*Pauses*

But mind-altering substances can also give a temporary dimming, due to the disruption of the consciousness.

@Yatagarasu

Huh. Amazing, I take it back, I was wrong.
*Listens, enamored with the lesson*
What if you knocked someone out before killing them? What would happen to their soul?

Myriad Reality

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That would explain the soul's dimmed state, too.

@Yatagarasu

Can you explain that part to me, pretty please?

Myriad Reality

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*Looks back at the metal square with a distant look in my eyes*

So far so good. We'll need to put a little extra oomph in her soul to get it regenerating, but -

*Gestures lightly with the now foot-long bit of spinal cord, which now has a slight bulb at the top end*

- the nervous system is coming along. The extra material should be get to a decent size soon, which will speed things up.

@Yatagarasu

*Makes a face when I draw a blood sample into a syringe*
Blood's polluted. Neurotoxins. Stimulants. It's like she was trying to die.

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*Replies*
My eyes are the only way to help them?

@Meta

Aaaand here we go.

Myriad Reality

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*Smiles*

Well, if we don't get a response soon, you can go ask her in person.

@Yatagarasu

That aside, 's everything stable?