[But she's not an A.I. fragment, to be backed up and uploaded elsewhere. She's not the Alpha's living gestalt memories gelling into being over a period of inching years, piggybacking off of someone else's electricity and neural patterns.]
And you...what? Just came back?
[He's well aware that he hasn't quite earned that level of incredulity. Not when it's, technically speaking, happened before.]
[But he'd stopped thinking he'd see anyone from his days at Project Freelancer, aside from the unflagging constant of Carolina, years ago. To hold onto hope otherwise would've been entirely too cruel.]
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And you...what? Just came back?
[He's well aware that he hasn't quite earned that level of incredulity. Not when it's, technically speaking, happened before.]
[But he'd stopped thinking he'd see anyone from his days at Project Freelancer, aside from the unflagging constant of Carolina, years ago. To hold onto hope otherwise would've been entirely too cruel.]