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[vitative]

[Have a soft voice over the phone:] Where... am I?

... Was I... taken in for an upgrade...?

I do not... understand...

... Am I... dead?

[Hello, residents of 456 Stone Street, and any surrounding neighbors.

There is a blond, with bright blue eyes in blue pajamas on the front porch.

She might look familiar... like a robot who may or may not

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[personajesus]

[....so Aigis. how do you feel about one not!dead jesus character standing off to the side and staring at you? because, yeah, that's kind of what he's doing.

just.

staring. at your complete lack of roboticness. this really shouldn't remind him of his death, but it does.]

[vitative]

[... she stares.

And stares. Pale. Her eyes are shining.

And she says the first thing that comes to mind.]

... I am dead?

[personajesus]

...what?

[and he's instantly frowning, taking a step closer to her before shaking his head. what was going on?

what was Mayfield trying to pull now?]

No... of course not.

[vitative]

[She's frozen to the spot, words not wanting to come.]

... But... you are dead.

And... I am with you...

You... are--You are... Minato-san?

[Hair falls into her eyes. She takes a moment to brush it away. A human gesture--she had never been annoyed by it before...]

[personajesus]

[he notes the gesture as well and blinks. she was... really human? but how? when they had arrived, Mayfield hadn't taken her body from her, so this was... why had it taken it now?

...and why was Aigis acting like this..?]

Yes.

...You... don't remember this place?

[vitative]

[And now she scrambles forward, stumbling over her feet. She stops a few inches before him, reaching out for him, but... her fingers stopping just short.

... he is warm.

... She can feel it.]

... What is going on, Minato-san?

[And she looks scared, with tears in her eyes. She's in a human body, she can't summon Athena, she can't fight, and her dead best friend is standing right in front of her.]

Why can I see you?

[personajesus]

It's... [he trails off at first though, reaching a hand out and placing it gently against her cheek - it's surprising, that it feels so much different than it did before, and so it takes him a second longer before he starts speaking again.]

...you really don't remember? [for a second he looks genuinely sad, but it's gone as soon as it had come, and Minato shakes his head.] Don't worry. You aren't dead.

[vitative]

[she shakes her head, having almost jerked away from his touch]

Then how?

[personajesus]

[ajghdah

just going to pull away, then.]

....welcome back to Mayfield.

[vitative]

[what no don't stop touching me. She reaches out to touch his chest.]

... You are breathing.

[personajesus]

....I am.

[hey, you're the one that jerked a little, not him.]

[vitative]

[Her hands clench in his shirt.]

... You are warm... Your hands... are warm, too.

[I'm not used to feeling! He was warm and it startled me ;_;]

[personajesus]

...I'm alive. So...

[just. trails off. he's really not sure how to deal with this kajhgda she just keeps... reminding him of when he died... because somehow she had looked so human then.]

[vitative]

But that does not...

I was there when...

[And the tears are stronger, and they're starting to fall and she can't stop them, they're even harder to control in a human body.]

I fought...

[She can't make the right words, and she can't breathe, how is he standing in front of her--?!]

[personajesus]

...I know you did. We both fought... and we did our best.

[he pauses, before reaching out again to wipe some of those tears away with his thumb.]

Mayfield... doesn't pay attention to any of that. Being "dead" doesn't matter here.

[vitative]

[And her hands drop from his shirt]

... I'm sorry, Minato-san.... I'm sorry.