[ Collette would have loved to hear more about the kitrites... even if her architectural appreciation isn't top notch. Knowing more about places and people she'll never see has a bittersweet excitement to it all.
She allows herself to lean in, lulled by contact. There's nothing to protest in her book. After all, hadn't she been using this morph to specifically help put people at ease? If it worked both ways, doubly good.
Sometimes everyone needed a little comforting familiarity. She's not sure if Vanadi's ever had a dog before, but she'll be glad for the fact he's as attentive to what feels comforting and calming to someone wearing the genetic make-up of a member of the canine family.
Especially as he tells her the one thing she most wanted to hear: You won.
She can guess the cost. She can postulate, on what Vanadi has said, why she herself is alive for Vanadi to speak with. If their two lives were as similar as Collette suspects, then the changes came at the last minute. Windows to another world, or teleportation into another world, either way can save a girl as she's passing out of this world into whatever's next.
She's almost jealous of her other self, this Collette who has the option to go home. Seeing Phillipe again, seeing Anne, probably finally getting to go skiing and moving out of the hospital because wouldn't Phillipe get transferred back home after all of that? Of course he would. They'd be a family again, and that thought was nice.
She likes believing that's precisely the life other!Collette is living, one where she comes to Cittagazze for a lark and to find adventure, and that's all. It's a nice, if contradictory, fiction.
Collette tries to lick Vanadi, whatever's most convenient. ]
< Of course we did. Hah! After everything we did, there's no other way it could turn out. >
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She allows herself to lean in, lulled by contact. There's nothing to protest in her book. After all, hadn't she been using this morph to specifically help put people at ease? If it worked both ways, doubly good.
Sometimes everyone needed a little comforting familiarity. She's not sure if Vanadi's ever had a dog before, but she'll be glad for the fact he's as attentive to what feels comforting and calming to someone wearing the genetic make-up of a member of the canine family.
Especially as he tells her the one thing she most wanted to hear: You won.
She can guess the cost. She can postulate, on what Vanadi has said, why she herself is alive for Vanadi to speak with. If their two lives were as similar as Collette suspects, then the changes came at the last minute. Windows to another world, or teleportation into another world, either way can save a girl as she's passing out of this world into whatever's next.
She's almost jealous of her other self, this Collette who has the option to go home. Seeing Phillipe again, seeing Anne, probably finally getting to go skiing and moving out of the hospital because wouldn't Phillipe get transferred back home after all of that? Of course he would. They'd be a family again, and that thought was nice.
She likes believing that's precisely the life other!Collette is living, one where she comes to Cittagazze for a lark and to find adventure, and that's all. It's a nice, if contradictory, fiction.
Collette tries to lick Vanadi, whatever's most convenient. ]
< Of course we did. Hah! After everything we did, there's no other way it could turn out. >
[ Not true, but true enough. ]
< Thank you. For knowing, and for telling me. >