[ He swallows, takes a step back, and the lights around him start flashing far more quickly - and far more encrypted. As if he's looking anywhere but her at all.
It was impossible. This wasn't a case of her losing her memories, she was physically a year younger than she had been - her features changed almost imperceptibly for anyone other than Marlowe. Marlowe knew, without a doubt, that this was her. There was no way they could fake him out. But she also wasn't her.
[ A halucination? Improbable. His own mind would offer the most up to date version it could, and anyone else projecting a vision into his head wouldn't be able to do so with that level of detail--
He took a step back, and then another, and he knew his heart rate was rising. ]
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[ He swallows, takes a step back, and the lights around him start flashing far more quickly - and far more encrypted. As if he's looking anywhere but her at all.
It was impossible. This wasn't a case of her losing her memories, she was physically a year younger than she had been - her features changed almost imperceptibly for anyone other than Marlowe. Marlowe knew, without a doubt, that this was her. There was no way they could fake him out. But she also wasn't her.
[ A halucination? Improbable. His own mind would offer the most up to date version it could, and anyone else projecting a vision into his head wouldn't be able to do so with that level of detail--
He took a step back, and then another, and he knew his heart rate was rising. ]
That was a year ago.