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notwhatiwas

✘ 17 ✘ coincidence

Jun 27, 2010 23:39

...Is there anyone from Gaia here who isn't--and hasn't ever been--part of ShinRa's Administrative Research Division?

[He sounds genuinely curious, under the neutrality normal for his tone of voice.]I already knew that a large number of the people on this ship who come from the same world are acquainted with each other, like we're selected in ( Read more... )

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skin_and_steel June 28 2010, 19:03:19 UTC

I've wondered about that. Makes you wonder if Redd's just picking people that he knows will get under our skin. I mean, of all the people he could just pluck out...

notwhatiwas June 29 2010, 05:49:49 UTC

I do wonder. The balance for those from my planet is almost striking now that the fourth is here. And we all originated from the same department.

skin_and_steel June 29 2010, 13:37:21 UTC

...the fourth? Do you mean those bastards that you told me about? [There's just a hint of anger at the end, though not directed at Vincent himself.]

notwhatiwas June 29 2010, 13:46:24 UTC

...No. Not exactly.

[He's quiet for a second. Edward's been on and off the network lately, he wouldn't really know.]

One is my old...director.

[There's something left unsaid there; the weight of his words is even heavier than usual, there has to be some kind of serious baggage attached to that man.]

The newest is his apprentice, who became his second some time after I was killed--in my timeframe, he's been the director for some time. The other is his second, the one who arrived here a month after I did.

We all started in the same group, the same subset of the company.

[Beat.]

But they had nothing to do with the experiments.

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