((WARNING: spoilers for all existing episodes of Caprica))
Land on your feet, in a crouch. Amazed. Hands outflung as if in flight. Fold your arms, unfold them, stretch one out before you and study your hand in amazement. Same scarred wrist. Run a finger over the keloid ridge. Reach up to feel your face. The back of your head. Fingers
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"What are you talking about?"
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One of the other answers caught his eye. "You're Greek?"
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He was a strange juxtaposition of clean and dirty. He wore a clean white oxford and gray slacks, courtesy of whatever being who decided that poor students shouldn't have to go naked. But his face was scruffy, and his right hand was calloused and had dirt permanently caked under the nails, like a mechanic. His left hand was smooth metal.
"You don't have to take it if you don't want it. Or if you can't have it."
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Only then did her glance catch the metal hand at his side. Naturally, her first thought was of the U87 prototype. She blinked hard.
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"Your daughter blew up a train?" Megan's black eyes were perfectly round with surprise. "Wow, that's... I mean, I'm sorry! I really am. That has to suck, for everybody involved. Anyway, who told you that doesn't mean you're not a parent? I mean, my da died but that doesn't mean he's not still a father, you know? I think being a parent has to be kind of like that, once a parent, always a parent. You're just... a parent of someone who's not there anymore?" Suddenly, Megan's common sense caught up with her mouth and she laughed helplessly. "Actually, that's probably a sore subject so I'll drop it. Hi, I'm Megan, and welcome to Hogwarts! It's kind of nice once you get used to all the weirdness."
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There was also that daughter blowing up a train thing, but... that didn't seem like the kind of thing you opened with, even for socially inept MMO addicts. Unless you were a troll. Which Codex was very much not.
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