You aren't cold. This is notable due to the way your skin is bare and the way the snow settles in your hair and melts on your face - diamonds and water droplets, gathering at your feet and tingling between your toes. You aren't cold, though it's the north and the north is always cold and ice and dark skies - long nights, and blizzards, and even
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What kind of song it that?
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...song? I...
[Click click. She checks something.]
[And then closes her eyes and goes. Silent.]
Mm.
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[It's something between a question and a statement.]
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[ "You are Priscilla, naked..." ]
[ Turn off the post. ]
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Sorry, video must've- sorry.
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You remember your life before.
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[She rubs her face in the shadowy corner of her bed. A fox's ear flickers at the bottom of the screen.]
I've had more than one life. I remember... things.
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So much it gets jumbled.
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[He almost says as much, but he is distracted by her singing. Rather than speak at all he listens quietly to the words and to her voice.]
[To her hunger and the way it echoes his own.]
[But it's not really hers. Not anymore. She is gone again.]
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[...and she wonders what he's thinking. Wonders if he misses her, that other her - or more, wonders whether he misses her more than he missed the Priscilla that she is, when she was gone.]
[And wonders if the Priscilla that she is really qualifies as either one, or if she's become some... strange hybrid thing.]
[She spends a good deal of time wondering these things.]
Isley?
You're... quiet.
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Mm. My father used to sing it to me when I was a little girl.
...I could sing it to you sometime. I still remember all the words.
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