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[devoutish]

Solomons & Melborn
1108 Sweet Cream Street

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[bywolves]

Yeah, I do.

[ Sigh. ] It doesn't matter now. Can't leave here yet. [ A beat. ] I'll talk to Gwen.

[devoutish]

What's she gonna say?

[bywolves]

Don't know.

Considering she died to make sure I fulfilled my destiny, I have an inkling.

[devoutish]

But surely she knows that you want to stay here. You've discussed all this with her before, yeah?

[bywolves]

Yeah, I have. And she seemed fine with the idea of staying here with me. With Mercy.

I've never explained what would happen if I didn't go back, though. [ A beat. ] I got into the habit of thinking that time just... stopped. In Elan, where I came from. There are versions of me existing and not existing in so many places that it should be fine if at least one doesn't ever come back, right?

[devoutish]

Yeah, but I don't much like that you've suddenly decided that the world will end if you don't go back, Royce.

[bywolves]

[ A long, long pause. ]

Hadrian is usually right about things like this. Morality things. That's all. [ Royce trusts his judgement, even when he gives him shit about it. ]

[devoutish]

It's not a morality thing. Whether or not the world will end without you isn't morality.

[bywolves]

[ Deep breath. ]

I don't want to think that I'm that integral to a world existing.

[devoutish]

Yeah. You're integral to a lot of things, mate, but I don't think that's one of 'em.

[bywolves]

[ A beat, and then: ]

A long time ago, someone in Norfinbury suggested that we weren't the originals. [ He closes his eyes. ] Like the ones here. The clones.

[devoutish]

Yeah. There's a part of you that might want that, eh?

[bywolves]

It's a big part. Yeah.

[devoutish]

I cannot imagine how I'd feel, if it were true. Suspect I won't ever really know unless it happens.