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[seeingscarlet]

 
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Re: voice

[incogneto]

Yes, it's just that you have a very uncommon last name. I was talking to your friend Stephen and it seems that the three of us are either from the same or adjacent worlds, and I guess what I'm saying is that I think I knew your mother.

[seeingscarlet]

You did?

[He can't see it but she's gone pale.]

When?

[incogneto]

A long time ago. Before you were born.

We were... Very close, but only for a brief time.

You do look like her, I think I recognized it in you when we met.

[seeingscarlet]

I do?

[Out before she can stop herself - of course she remembers generally what her mother looked like, but details have become hazy with time and trauma and the twins only have a single picture.

Oh, she hates to be the bearer of bad news, but...]

When was the last time you spoke to her?

[incogneto]

A very long time ago for you, I suppose. It was in the sixties.

[ Which doesn't fall in line with her birthdate at least... But considering that Peter is in his twenties in the 1980s it does make more sense. ]

But... She was a remarkable woman.

[seeingscarlet]

Are you sure it wasn't my grandmother? I was born in the nineties.

[incogneto]

You were?

[ There's a sudden panic as he considers he might have discovered that he's a 33-year-old grandfather. ]

I think we may need to speak to Stephen.

[seeingscarlet]

If he knew us in his world he might know more. I haven't met him in mine but he seemed to know who I am.

[incogneto]

Yes. And he seemed to think we knew each other from before. I don't think it's a detail he would have mistaken, though I had assumed it was because he knows me as an old man.

But yes, it is very possible I knew your grandmother then.