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[coppelganger]

Hey, it's Sarah. Leave a message.

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[cuff]

It was a case one time, he hypnotized all of us. [ Well. ] Three of us. Cause we couldn't get the story straight. Figured he'd come up with the right answer somehow at the end of it.

Just threw in that i'd been abducted afterward. Probably just thought i'd been, who knows.

[coppelganger]

... Right.

[ Whatever you say, man. ]

[cuff]

[ Uuughgroan, why don't you believe hiiim, his hard life. ] Unconvinced, huh.

[coppelganger]

I don't know. You'd be surprised what I might believe.

[ I mean, she is a clone. But alien abduction is still pretty damn weird. ]

[cuff]

[ Oh ho, now there's an interesting comment. He narrows his gaze a bit, intrigued. ]

Like what? Everybody's got a story around here.

[coppelganger]

And yours is aliens?

[ Because why talk about me when we can talk about you instead? ]

[cuff]

[ You'll have to try harder than that, he interrogates convicts for a living. Not that he's going to push it or anything; people's business is their business. ]

Hey- mine isnt aliens. It's a whole buncha other stuff.

[coppelganger]

Yeah? Like what.

[cuff]

I dunno. Pick anything, just not aliens.

[coppelganger]

Monsters?

[cuff]

Nah, not the real kind. Had a ghost ship once, but didn't have any real ghosts on it. Just pirates.

[coppelganger]

Pirates, no shit?

[ She's totally picturing the "shiver me timbers" kind with peg legs basically straight out of Pirates of the Caribbean, don't mind her. ]

[cuff]

[ If only his life were that exciting. But he totally does not get the message here, so he... fails to dissuade her from the stunning mental imagery. No Davy Jones here, but Ray would be so much more excited if that were the case.

Maybe not. ]

Yes, shit. Cranky old pirates, kidnapping boats, scaring the piss outta other sailors.

[coppelganger]

So what'd you do, then?

[cuff]

You want the whole story? All the bells and shit? Or just the ending part where we catch the bad guy and put a boot in their face.

[coppelganger]

Depends on how much you wanna tell me.

[ She's not going to push him to tell her the whole story if he doesn't want to, but she seems willing to listen to it if he feels like sharing. ]

[cuff]

Oh, I don't care about the storytelling bit. The whole thing was just, y'know- [ Excuse him while he waves his hands around a bit to represent CHAOS. ] -there was drowning and toxic spillage and the domain of Canada. Which I guess is just another day in the life and all.

[coppelganger]

Sounds like a pretty exciting life.

[cuff]

Dunno, still got boring ones. Beer, music, cheap ass takeout. Livin the life.

[coppelganger]

[ Trying to sound super casual about this, like it doesn't apply to her. Asking for a friend, honestly! Or something. ]

So would you say your life's gotten more or less exciting since you ended up here?

[cuff]

[ Oh, well huh. Now there's an interesting question, he needs a second to think that one over, squinting a bit. ]

Different exciting, maybe. We don't got alternate universes back home, or y'know superpowers. But same shitty government pulling shitty stunts. Same kinda people, same bullshit. Different names for the same things. Got a place to live, got a job.

So far it's not all that much more exciting. Its not Chicago- so what. Just another place.

[coppelganger]

I guess that's comforting in a weird way.

[cuff]

Why, you lookin for something less weird?

[coppelganger]

Yeah, I might be.

[cuff]

Lotta less weird, little less weird? [ He holds his index finger and thumb further or closer apart depending on the words. ] You got any vampires where you come from?