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Is that so.

[Hm.]

Anyone I would know...?

Possibly? He's a lawyer, his name is Alexander Cumore. We've only met in passing, though.

The name is familiar, at least. He's likely attended some of the same galas I've gone to with Elda; I'll probably know him when I see him.

[One of our assistant district attorneys was a hooker in a past life. That's what he's getting out of this.

...That said, though.]

...Is it a good thing for you, knowing that someone else from your world is involved with Retrospec as well? Or does the obnoxiousness outweigh any benefits?

I haven't given that much thought yet. I suppose in a way it probably is a good thing, but of all people it had to be him...

[...]

Then again, I really don't get along with almost anyone else, so maybe that's a good thing too.

I suppose it comes down to what memories he receives as well.

[...I mean, with your luck one of you killed the other or something and he's going to remember that part first.]

Best of luck with it either way, I suppose.

[God, he wouldn't even be surprised at this point.]

Thank you. I do appreciate it!

You don't have anyone here that you recognize from your memories, do you?

...I don't, no. The closest I've come was seeing someone in the fog last month.

Oh? Who did you see?

His name is Sergei Vladimir; I believe I've told you about him before, though not by name. He's one of the men I knew with an affinity for knives - the one I met in that abandoned facility.

[...The one that likes cutting himself, for whatever reason.]

I remembered fighting him, after dealing with him in the fog. It was...a highly insipid fight, if you want me to be honest. It shouldn't have happened in the first place.

Ah, yes, I remember.

[Right, that guy.]

What do you mean by that, though? Why shouldn't it have happened?

Because I had a gun with me at all times, and yet I never shot him until we were already fighting.

[HE'S SO MAD? He's very understated about it, as is his general way, but he's so fucking mad.]

I could have circumvented the entire thing, but for some reason chose not to.

[...He knows he shouldn't be this irritated about not straight-up murdering a dude, but oh my god that turned into a bossfight that he is not giving you details about because YIKES when it really didn't have to.]

[Ohhhhh my god. On the one hand, murdering a dude. On the other, this sounds like it went places.]

Oh my. I'm guessing you didn't have a good reason for not shooting him, you just didn't?

[He's trying so hard not to look amused but. listen. you're cute when you're mad.]

[...Why are you like this.]

...I can't be sure. I haven't been able to work out how I felt toward the man back then, in all the memories I've had involving him. It's...conflicting, for lack of a better term, though I remember being vaguely pleased to see him when it turned out to be him in the fog.

[...]

The fight I remembered was also...strange, along those lines.

[...was...was he into sergei? he has no idea but he thinks he might have been into sergei. um.]

[you were totally into sergei...]

Ooh, that sounds interesting. How was the fight strange?

...We spent approximately as much of it flirting as we did fighting, to be blunt.

[Things he learned about himself recently: his past self was apparently a useless bisexual.]

[Okay, that's going to get him to burst out laughing, thanks.]

My, it sounds like you had a lot of fun fighting him! Should I be worried~?

[mnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngh shut up it's not his fault he had shit taste in men- ]

I should say not, if only because we spend far less time trying to kill one another.

[but it's c u t e HEY WAIT A MINUTE]

That isn't something I'm all that interested in changing, so hopefully that's not the sort of thing you're into.

[wink!]

[...]

...I don't believe so?

[...you can practically hear the :|a ]

...I was joking, but that's good to know?

[o h m y g o d]

Well, I do have several reasons to believe that I was.

[JUST...SAYING...]

Don't worry, I still rather prefer what we have now.

[good to know...???]

I'm glad to hear it! I would be a bit worried if you didn't!

[But that's gotten him to settle, so that's good?]

I don't know if he's ever going to show up here, but should Sergei make his presence known on the network at any point, I'll let you know. Granted, if he ends up being anything like what he is in my memories, he's a little difficult to miss.

I think it may be for the best to not engage with him very much, should that happen, but it's difficult to say for now. I obviously can't discern the future.

Ja, I'll be sure to keep that in mind. I'm curious about him, of course, but if you say it's best to avoid him, I will.

I certainly won't stop you from speaking to him, should we see him. But every encounter with him that I've recalled has seemed to end in us trying to kill each other.

[...]

...I also managed to succeed, this last time. So I doubt he'd be very pleased to see me.

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