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[bestswordmaster]

Whoever's idea it was to play some kind of juvenile prank on us, it's not funny. Call off your loud and obnoxious cronies and I'll consider not having them all arrested by the eerily identical authorities.

I'm serious. Why are they all the same person?

And what the hell is a "boy band" anyway?

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Voice

[cutesneeze]

Because they're all clones.

[They probably aren't all clones. Maybe.]

Re: Voice

[bestswordmaster]

What's a clone?

[cutesneeze]

A copy of a person. They're incredibly creepy.

[bestswordmaster]

A copy of a person?

[His mind flickers back to Kronya and Thales. They were copies of people, too.]

They're all changing their appearance to look identical?

[cutesneeze]

No, an actual copy, not a disguise.

[There's a momentary pause.]

Like - if you cut someone in half, and got two whole people out of it instead of a huge mess.

[bestswordmaster]

What the hell? I've cut people almost in half before, and that never happened. I thought there was no magic in this world.

Why would you even want nothing but copies of the same people as law enforcers? This is so stupid.

[cutesneeze]

[There's a long pause.]

I didn't mean that literally. There's no actual cutting anyone in half involved, just...growing a copy from a small piece. It's science. Really creepy science.

Everything about this place is weird.

[bestswordmaster]

Oh. [A pause. Felix knows jack shit about science, but 'growing people from small pieces of other people' seems bad?? He grimaces.] That's disgusting. And abhorrent. And...disgusting. It's the second worst thing I've ever heard.

[At 'weird,' he scoffs.] What an understatement. It's all nonsense. Cats and horses and ghosts come from eggs. That sinister woman pretends to be everyone's mother. Blobs of cream and piles of garbage are alive, somehow? Not to mention this absurd notion that weapons are illegal. And people from the same world remember it from different points in time.

[Is this a rant? ...yeah, it's kind of a rant.]

[cutesneeze]

What's the worst?

[That might just be a hint of genuine curiosity in her voice.]

[bestswordmaster]

Magical stones turning people into violent, mindless monsters.

[He answers without skipping a beat.]

[cutesneeze]

Better or worse: mindless monsters, or aware but with no control?

[This is a terrible game.]

[bestswordmaster]

Hm. Aware but with no control is better. If you can still think, you can come up with a solution.

[It is terrible. And yet...]

Tell me, where would you rank getting captured and knowing that a shapeshifter took your place and no one noticed?