DRUUUGGGZ // Video.

[stopthat_destro]

[Rex turns the camera on, then clumsily drops it. After a moment, he picks it up, his reflexes a bit sluggish. He holds it up, the angle slightly canted, looking at the camera with slightly unfocused eyes.]

So we've got-- you're people who. Who think you come from another Barge. Or who are from another Barge. [He laughs a little.] I don't know

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[persephonepearl]

Oh Rex.

[stopthat_destro]

What?

[persephonepearl]

You don't need to do this.

[stopthat_destro]

I just want to know. I'm curious.

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[persephonepearl]

You fly too close to the sun, Rex Lewis.

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[stopthat_destro]

Don't we all want to be near the sun again?

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[persephonepearl]

This is not the way to do it! It is a false sun that use to enslave you!

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[stopthat_destro]

No, I'm free. This makes me free...

[Pause.]

Do you know anything about the visitors? Or the people affected by the flood... I just want to know about their home.

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[persephonepearl]

And when it wears off? Will you be free then? No, you will be changed.

I have been told that there, the wardens are good, like us. They try to make us better.

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[stopthat_destro]

Changed from what? I'm... nobody, anyway.

Make us better... That's what the wardens say here, now.

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[persephonepearl]

You are not nobody. Do not let them think that you are. You are Rex Lewis, a doctor and a good man.

They try to make us into better people, it seems. Not... more efficient murders and whatever else.