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[ambitionroad]

[Ethan takes a breath and turns on the feed, scrubbing a hand over his face before he remembers the mask, throwing up his hoodie as he fidgets. What can he even say to figments of his imagination? He feels crazy before he even opens his mouth.]

It was a car wreck wasn't it? I don't even have a car, but someone dies from a car accident every 13

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[limu_o_pele]

It's possible, I guess. We do have some dead people here. But most of us are still alive.

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[ambitionroad]

Comforting.

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[limu_o_pele]

Sorry, looks like I opened with the wrong welcome pack. [She smiles slightly.] I don't know if I can do comforting, but we can try pragmatic. What's the last thing you remember?

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[ambitionroad]

[He smiles, a little lopsidedly.] I was in lab, at school. And I can do pragmatic.

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[limu_o_pele]

A lab.

[She has to stop herself from just bombarding him with questions about that. She doesn't know anything about schools.]

Unless anything happened there, it's unlikely you're dead. People tend to remember how they died. You can also check your mirror - the one in your room. It should sort of... show your life.

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[ambitionroad]

A mirror, in my room. That shows my life.

Okay, screw being pragmatic. I'm dead. I have to be..dead. What if it happened instantly? I wouldn't remember it.

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[limu_o_pele]

I think you'd remember something. Pain, or pressure, or something.

[But she gives a little shrug, it's not like she knows what dying is like.]

Just... look for the mirror. I should be pretty big. And you'll know what I mean when you see it.

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[ambitionroad]

[He's just going to sigh forever.] I need a fucking cigarette.

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[limu_o_pele]

You can just dream one up.

[She tilts her head slightly. She'd already said she wasn't good at comforting, but still.]

It'll be okay. We're trying to find a way out.

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[ambitionroad]

[And a cigarette pops out of thin air. Instead of dreaming up a lighter he just sighs and puts it between his lips.]

Who's 'we'? Because with or without this mystical 'we' I'm finding my own damn way out of here. I'm a man of science after all. [if only that sounded more confident. but he was trying ok]

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[limu_o_pele]

Pretty much everyone you can talk to on this network. I don't think anyone wants to stay, though there's probably a couple somewhere.

[Like the dead people she'd mentioned.]

There's a 'resistance' thing, too, though I think they've already decided the royals are behind everything.

[She's meant to be recruiting, but she's not very good at it.]

Do you think science will do well against dreams?

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[ambitionroad]

Dreams are science. This is all just brain chemistry, and reactions.

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[limu_o_pele]

Just brain chemistry makes it sound really dull. I thought there was a lot science still hadn't discovered about the brain, yet?

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[ambitionroad]

They'll never discover it all. That's kind of what science is all about.

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[limu_o_pele]

Is that what you study, then? Biology?

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[ambitionroad]

Something like that, yeah. I'm going to be a doctor.