~forty-one~ (100% Emadroned)

[glowing_science]

[A: Action]

[Sometime in the late morning, Ema Skye can be found in her kitchen making (or simply setting out) a variety of breakfast foods: scrambled eggs, bacon, biscuits, toast, muffins, fresh fruit, and so forth. There's even coffee and some mimosas made from all-American orange juice from Florida and some sparkling wine from California (not

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[thief_of_truth]

No, the Communists took over last year.

[glowing_science]

I must have missed that, then. [Ema laughs, assuming it's a joke. She doesn't remember Maipole at all.]

[thief_of_truth]

You'd have to be blind to miss something like that.

[glowing_science]

I would. We'd be eating nothing but beets and getting shot in the street for not loving Mother Russia enough.

[She has no idea how accurate she is.]

But I don't remember that happening at all. You're just kidding around, aren't you?

[thief_of_truth]

That's exactly what happened! I got shot in a firing line for not hanging up their stupid propaganda posters the right way!

[glowing_science]

...

[Ema almost laughs, although she cuts herself off once she realizes that she's dead serious. Kay sounds like she's being honest, but... there's no way that could have happened.

Could it?

When Ema speaks again, she's equally somber.]

Kay.

That can't have happened. I don't know what you're remembering or why, but... if you'd been shot, you wouldn't be here talking to me.

[thief_of_truth]

But it did happen! You just can't remember any of it.

[glowing_science]

And why do you think that is?

[The question is dubious, as if Ema's only humoring Kay because she doesn't know what else to say.]

[thief_of_truth]

You wouldn't believe me if I told you anyway, so it doesn't matter.

[glowing_science]

Try me.

[thief_of_truth]

It's this stupid town! It has you brainwashed!

[glowing_science]

...

[Ema resists the urge to flat out contradict Kay's claim, if only because it would get the girl to shut down and stop the conversation entirely.]

It does? And how does it accomplish this?

[thief_of_truth]

There's some kind of weird machine or something they use to do it.

[glowing_science]

Do you have any idea how this machine works, scientifically speaking?

[thief_of_truth]

Yeah, but you probably won't believe me.

[glowing_science]

Stop saying that! I'm asking because I want you to tell me.