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[swatwithdragons]

[The comm clicks on to Lance. He looks beyond furious; his entire face is an expression of pure, barely-restrained rage, the sort that makes one tremble with its intensity. It’s not a righteous sort of rage. This is a ‘kill someone’ sort of rage. Yeah, he not happy. Straight after thisIf I ever find out who’s responsible for those fucking mirror-

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[fallsoutofbox]

[The Doctor looks none too pleased either. This is far from being RageLord, but it's definitely a don't-mess-with-me face.]

I don't know what you saw, Lance, or what somebody close to you saw - but some people had a very good reason to believe what their window showed them. Or at least they lacked a reason to doubt it.

Being duped, or even stupid, does not make anyone worthless, and you'd better take care who you're insulting.

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[tenuefarfalla]

[Let's just pretend this came in while Cho was reading the post.]

Did you see one?

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[fallsoutofbox]

[He shifts a bit, surprised by the question, but not ashamed.]

Yeah. I did.

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[tenuefarfalla]

It just...

It showed you the truth, didn't it?

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[fallsoutofbox]

It --

It showed me something I believed. I didn't actually see it as a bad thing, at first... But no. It wasn't the truth.

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[tenuefarfalla]

So it--

Mine showed me what life would be like if I'd been different. It seemed... valid.

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[fallsoutofbox]

I saw a world without me; one where I'd never existed. Long story, but I actually never did. It was plausible.

...Seeing that stuff can hurt. But honestly, it doesn't matter whether those images are true or not. Either way it's just cruel. This city's idea of a - of a joke. Or some kind of immune response. The best we can do is try to do some good here.

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[tenuefarfalla]

But mine was true. Things would have been better that way. I've always known that. I thought that was the point of them?

[Clearly she just doesn't understand.]

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[fallsoutofbox]

[Meanwhile he was misinterpreting her reaction entirely, and he's just starting to understand that.]

...Oh. Ah. ...I'm not certain there was a point. Other than to mess with people's heads.

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[tenuefarfalla]

[Cho has just now seen the anon post, with it's edit, and she thinks it's kind of sad.]

That's awful. You try to go home and all you end up with is... all the details of what your life would have been with someone different in your place.

[Because that's what she got.]

That must be heartbreaking for a lot of people.

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[fallsoutofbox]

It's not always encouraging.

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[tenuefarfalla]

But just because it's true doesn't mean it's real. I'm not a man.

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[fallsoutofbox]

...No. No, even if some of them are - potentially true, none of them are real.

[Pause. It bothers him that she so clearly believes things would have been perfect if she were different.]

Nobody is perfect. No one. Not even the people who appear to be. Especially the ones who appear to be.

Neither would you, even if you had been different. That's not a bad thing - that's just people.

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[tenuefarfalla]

No no. Not perfect.

[That's impossible and Cho knows it.]

Just better.

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[fallsoutofbox]

...I'm sure that's not -

- well, subjectively, any person could be better, but that's. Subjective. Better according to whom?

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[tenuefarfalla]

[Cho doesn't understand the question. Not really.]

Just... better. By-- my family's standards, I suppose. By mine. By society's.