ic contact; MoM

[coppelganger]

Hey, it's Sarah. Leave a message.

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[ewenique]

( It makes her heart hurt, meeting Justyna and the others for the first time. That barely any time at all ago, and yet so impossibly far away. If only they had known, then. If only they had known to stay away from one another. But it was not the fault of teenage girls that they were murdered, and the thought alone makes anger burn in her gut again. It wasn't fair. This place wasn't fair. )

You ask me a riddle when you announce yourself on the network?

Your security standards are very inconsistent.

[coppelganger]

you started it with the riddles. I just returned the favour.

[ewenique]

Your name is Sarah Manning. You did a news broadcast announcing your status as clones. One of the clones you and your sisters discussed has since departed, Rachel Duncan. She has health problems. None of you are very discrete, so indiscrete that none of this information will mean anything to you.

( And so she switches to video, for just a couple of seconds. The face is younger, a good ten years at least, and there is the brief glimpse of burns down one side of her face before she pulls her hair forward. )

Be more careful.

switching to video also

[coppelganger]

[ It's the way she crouches forward and pulls her hair over her cheeks that strikes Sarah as familiar, more than the scars or the accent. ]

MK?

[ She says it without thinking, surprised, but then just as quickly decides she has to be wrong. This girl is young, way too young. It can't be her. ]

[ewenique]

( Whatever MK was expecting, it wasn't that. She freezes up for a second, the definitive deer in headlights. This isn't the plan, and her mouth works silently for a second. She should hang up, she should hang up, she should— )

How do you know my name?

[coppelganger]

Oh, fuck.

[ Give her a minute here. ]

[ewenique]

( No. No, no no. No.

MK will provide no minutes for Sarah's convenience. She looks at her, at how shocked she is, and how much she reminds her of Justyna, and she shakes her head. No.

The feed cuts, abruptly. )