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[bonescientist]

[The sea churns lazily, waves ebbing and flowing at the shore. The early morning sky is tinged with a gloomy gray, tiny raindrops drizzling down rapidly. The bad weather is lost on Brennan as she stands close to the shoreline staring into the distance, only a step or two shy of getting her feet wet by the water. Brisk wind howls every now and then

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[justdoingmyjob]

What's with today? Some kind of--

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[justdoingmyjob]

Looks like you could use an umbrella.

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[bonescientist]

It's raining. [As if this was just dawning on her.] I didn't even... well. It's just water.

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[justdoingmyjob]

Are any of them really there?

Not that...I'd want to see...

The only person I want to see is...

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[bonescientist]

[There's a brief pause before the response comes, the lull filled with the sound of the drizzling rain.]

Ange, I... I can hear mom talking to me.

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[bonescientist]

Hmm? Oh, I wasn't really going to go anywhere.

[Her tone is distracted, in a manner that suggests she's focusing on something else rather intently.]

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[adamantined]

Waiting is better than diving in headfirst.

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[bonescientist]

You're... probably correct.

[A beat.]

Yes. I can wait.

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[adamantined]

Are you okay?

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[bonescientist]

...What? Oh, fine. [Small sigh, a brief pause.] ...No. Not really. I can hear my mother talking to me although she's been dead for well over ten years already.

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[worksmart]

Why don't you wait. Give it a few weeks and I'll take you out diving if you'd like. Bad weather for dolphins, today.

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[bonescientist]

Yeah? ...You think there are dolphins? In there?

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[worksmart]

Further out, maybe. If there was a pod close to the shore right now you'd know about it.

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[bonescientist]

She told me to wait for them.

[There's a huff of distinct frustration, before she mutters:]

I don't even know why I'm doing this. She's not really here.