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| Zerna Jernal | Aug 16 2013, 01:31 PM Post #16 |
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"Yes ma'am." he whispered back. He followed Miss Clio inside and didn't say a word, he wanted her to open the dialog, that way she can chose the topic and not feel forced to talk about something she didn't want to. But he placed the small bag with tea on a nearby table and smiled warmly at her. |
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| Blood Queen | Aug 16 2013, 01:37 PM Post #17 |
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She watched them come in, noting the open door and the whispered order to keep it that way. While she'd known that Zerna had survived when she attacked him, she stared at him as if she hadn't expected him to actually come see her. She still wasn't sure he was who he claimed to be... until the bag of tea appeared and he set it on the small table she'd been given. "I don't have any chairs or I'd offer you a place to sit. I haven't lost all of my manners yet." |
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| Zerna Jernal | Aug 16 2013, 01:39 PM Post #18 |
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"Well, we have noted your courtesy and are grateful of your kind offer. But I bet you don't think I am the real one yet, do you?" He gestured to the replicator, indicating that he wanted to make the water for her. |
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| Blood Queen | Aug 16 2013, 01:41 PM Post #19 |
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"I'm not certain she's real either if it makes you feel any better." She glanced to the replicator and then back at him, nodding slightly. |
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| Zerna Jernal | Aug 16 2013, 01:48 PM Post #20 |
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"What would you say is a good way to prove that I am the real one?" he asked as he walked up to the replicator and made a large pot appear with really hot water as well as three cups. All three had motives of cave cats and dogs on them, but the base color was different on all of them. |
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| Blood Queen | Aug 16 2013, 01:51 PM Post #21 |
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"Theia told me about the kiss... which is convincing, I guess... but there were other people there. Any of them could have told you about it." |
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| Zerna Jernal | Aug 16 2013, 01:53 PM Post #22 |
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"I see. Did any of the clones you encounter any of the abilities I possess?" |
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| Blood Queen | Aug 16 2013, 01:58 PM Post #23 |
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"I wasn't aware you had any." |
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| Eneas Clio | Aug 16 2013, 01:59 PM Post #24 |
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"I told you she'd be hard to convince. Show her." Clio pulled a knife from her belt and held it out to him, hilt first. |
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| Zerna Jernal | Aug 16 2013, 02:09 PM Post #25 |
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He accepted the knife and sighed, he stabbed the knife deep in to his flesh a few inches from his elbow and pulled the blade slowly towards his wrist. The pain was quite intense, but he was starting to get quite accustomed to pain by now. As the blade moved through his flesh, it healed almost instantly, leaving only remains of blood that had managed to escape from his self inflicted injury. "And there are these." he deployed his claws for a moment before they returned in to his lower arms. "And of course." he held out his hands in front of him and made a very high intense spark jump from one hand to the other with a sharp crack sounded through the cell. |
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| Blood Queen | Aug 16 2013, 02:17 PM Post #26 |
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Her expression grew increasingly puzzled as she watched the rapid display of abilities. They were familiar, but not from the clones. "Well... no. I mean... one of them had the healing factor, but he died at my hands anyway. You should have too." She paused, studying him like she might study an enemy on the battlefield. |
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| Zerna Jernal | Aug 16 2013, 02:22 PM Post #27 |
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"I did die. But your action jump started the healing factor. So I have you to thank for that." he reached in to his pocket. "Before I forget, I have someone you might have missed." he pulled out the AI-core he had been working on. "She was in bad shape, so I did what I could with her corrupted memory, sadly I couldn't get it all back. But her hardware is all new, even a little more compact." Zerna held up the core to the cell inhabitant. |
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| Blood Queen | Aug 16 2013, 02:35 PM Post #28 |
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Seeing the AI core freshly polished and partially rebuilt, she scrambled off the bed she'd been sitting on since they arrived, reaching for the core and taking it from him as soon as she could reach. It was smaller than the casing she'd carried Theia in, but the feel of it was familiar under her fingers as she explored the device's surface with her fingers. It looked like it had when he'd given her Aglaia's AI core only days before the Imperium had taken him away, before years of heavy use - and occasional accidental abuse - had forced her to place the core in a stable housing. "You fixed her... no one knows how to fix her..." Looking away as she set the newly rebuilt AI core on the table next to the tea, she blinked several times, as if she were trying not to cry. |
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| Zerna Jernal | Aug 16 2013, 02:37 PM Post #29 |
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"Do you believe that I am the real one now? I also upgraded the holoprojector. She can take solid form now, so she can play cards with you or if you need a hug, she can give you one." |
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| Blood Queen | Aug 16 2013, 02:47 PM Post #30 |
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"Solid? She hasn't been able to take a solid shape in... four years? Or was it five..." She paused, trying to remember how long it had been since Theia had been able to touch anything. The answer didn't immediately come to mind; with the Imperium constantly hunting them, she'd barely noticed the AI's degradation until it was too late. Before she quite knew why, she embraced him, with little intent of letting go again. "I'm sorry... I didn't know..." |
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