[Coquelicot's doing her best to sound cheerful. It's not working very well.]
... that was a pretty powerful illusion, wasn't it? I-I didn't know the town was strong enough to do something like this... it all felt so real. As long as everyone came out of it alright, though, we'll be fine- none of it's going to come true, right? We're not really
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Merry Christmas, Coquelicot, are you feeling all right?
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Mm, I'm... okay. We got a lot of our stuff back, so-
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You sound a lot younger than I remember! [... says the now twelve-year-old girl.]
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[Which is true- Coquelicot was always sneaking around/past her drone-mother as much as possible, so she'd always entered the house through her room's window.]
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Oh, I see.
So... you want to ...talk to me?
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[Besides, Coquelicot's never HAD a sister before. Or, outside of the Paris Floral Assault Troop and maybe the people at the circus, anyone she could call family, really.]
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But what if that's how we'll all... lose hope or go crazy?
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I had this conversation back home. If you're afraid of one fate coming true, smash it. Change it. I don't care if we are stuck here forever, I don't plan on losing hope or going crazy.
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[And that one short, blunt statement tinged with not-well-hidden sadness is all you're getting.]
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She's home now. That's all that matters. That person left in her place isn't really her.
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So just...forget about it. All of it.
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