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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:36 am
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"No, it's okay," said Melany hurriedly, "I just wish I'd thought before opening the door. I liked Temperance." In a smaller voice, she added, "I thought we were friends." She was clearly reconsidering that opinion now.
But she looked up and smiled at Horace, even if his eyes were on the road and not looking at her. "Yeah, but... I don't know. I guess... a lot of people would've... A lot of people answered my email, and they were all like, why do you want to die, don't kill yourself. But none of them offered a solution. It was like they wanted to pretend to help, or to prove I was a bot..."
She said, "My ex is on the listserv, you know. He's the one who sent me the invite. I don't understand why he did that if..." Melany lapsed into silence, wrapping her arms around herself in a tight hug.
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:16 pm
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"Um... right after he woke up, in mid-December," said Melany, nervously tugging her borrowed shirt into some kind of order as they stopped by the check-in desk and did check-in things. Because of the hour, the place was fairly empty; she fell silent on the matter of her boyfriend until they were called back and the doctor on duty was off to get sutures. "I... would that mean that Ezra is dead?"
She wasn't crying. She'd been visibly mortified when their doctor turned out to be a Rather Attractive older guy in front of whom she was meant to be bloody and topless, but like, she was a ballerina, as she'd told the doctor. She was fine. "It would have to, wouldn't it," she said, nervously twining a lock of her dark hair around her fingers. "Then my Ezra is gone forever. He's been replaced by some stranger with the same face?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:30 pm
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The doctor was kind of cute: small favors, etc. Melany, however... well, it was no wonder he was worried about her. "That might be... I don't know. He seems to be friendly-ish with all the other people I know are from that other, uh, bit." Horace frowned. "Okay, here's what I think - what if when you black out, that's like the other world's you - that's the you that this Ezra remembers. And it's not you, not really, but then there's you. And this you, the you that you are is why he was kind of nice, like inviting you to the listserv?"
He placed a hand briefly on her shoulder - no shock, thank goodness. "I'm sorry, but remember, this is all conjecture, I could be wrong." He didn't think he was, though, not about Ezra. "It means your Ezra could be replaced... I don't know if that means dead or what, though."
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