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3- [Video][Locke City]

[Arlene's surroundings have changed. She's no longer in a grimy and sweaty 24-hour diner in Gateway City; she's dressed nicely, with her hair and her makeup both done nicely and a brand new professional-looking outfit.

She's on her knees with a hand at her head.]

I was shot. I was shot in the head...

[She knocks against the side of her skull, and there's the sound of flesh and bone against a metal plate.]

What the fuck? Is this happening to everyone?

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Seems to be going around, whatever it is. You alright? That happened to me before, too.

[Getting shot in the head that is.]

That exact thing? Like... you remembered a bullet going into your skull and then had a metal plate in your head for no reason? No one ever put it there.

This isn't exactly like getting back a sword. I'm brain-damaged now.

Well I didn't get a metal plate out of it...

More like lost my frontal lobe for a few weeks...

But still. Kinda? I mean. Yeah...

[Awkward trailing off.]

Edited 2015-10-01 01:12 (UTC)

What do you mean, "for a few weeks?" You got that kind of injury from an echo?

Huh? No, well I mean I got shot in the face and echoed off of that. You got an injury from an echo?

[It's not unprecedented, but usually it's just the scar. Or the plate, in her case.]

But echoing back scars and things isn't that weird. What triggered it?

When did you get shot in the face? Did you... have any lasting damage from that? Because that's what I'm worried about right now, and you sound pretty OK.

Nothing at all triggered it. I was just sitting in my apartment and then I was on the floor. I sat up and there was this metal plate. I feel like I should see a doctor, but are they even trained for something like this?

Over a year ago. I uhm... I'm kind of an unusual case. You probably wouldn't do to take me as the rule.

I... shit? No trigger? You can't think of anything that could have set that off? Watching one of those emergency hospital shows or something?

I dunno, and then we've got the whole numbered problem on top of it. Not everyone's real fond of us still.

What makes you an unusual case, huh? I thought we all were on account of being what we are.

I can't think of anything. I was literally doing nothing. I was sort of thinking about painting my nails and decided not to.

I'm unusually hard to kill.

That's... not good. Not good at all.

Not good? Hello, I think most of us would really like to get that kind of echo. Mine have been next to useless so far. Those dinosaurs attacked me? I got a bridal veil.

I meant the way your echo happened isn't good. Mine's... alright I guess. I lived through major brain trauma I guess.

[He barks a surprised laugh.] A bridal veil? What the hell? But don't worry, I felt the same when I first started getting echoes. Got stupid colored hair and an attitude problem. Real helpful stuff.

Oh, sorry. I get it now.

If there's some kind of god handing these things out, I'm starting to think that he's just a colossal dick.

You're telling me. Picks the least useful and most obnoxious ones first. Pfeh.

You think there is someone like that putting us through all of this?

I don't think we're that lucky. If it were, it'd be something we could fight. This? I'm not so sure.

Heh. Kind of like a disease when you put it that way.

You know... that's kinda not far off. When you think about it.

You think we're terminal?

It's been two years for me, I think we're doomed. Still no cure in sight.

Two years, huh? Anyone been around longer than that?

Not many, but a few. And really only by a few months, I was pretty early on.

Even if you lost your echoes, though, your life would still be tough. Think about just losing all that.

It'd fix a few problems.

[He wouldn't want to start fights so much for one.]

It'd create a few, too. Nothing that's been a part of you for that long would just vanish without a trace.

Pretend it happened. What's the first thing you'd do?

Apologize.

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