hotel: clementine

[shaft]

not post trial....

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week 0, saturday

[shaft]

[ Wherever Clementine is, suddenly they are in the same space.

Claude is looking at her curiously. ]

[stillnot]

[ she instinctively gets defensive and mean! amazing ]

What?

[shaft]

[ that is the correct response to a strange man staring at you ]

Hey.

[stillnot]

[ you know what, you're right ]

Hi.

[shaft]

I don't believe we've met.

[ ... ]

How are you?

[stillnot]

After today? Tired.

[ but, you know what, she wants to be nicer. ]

And, uh... How about you?

[shaft]

... Yeah, me too.

[ sighs ]

Which setting were you at before this?

[stillnot]

The Realm. It was the one that was a simulation.

You?

[shaft]

I don't think I've heard of that one yet.

I was at the school.

[stillnot]

That's where Alphinaud was, right? The Alphinaud that's here.

[ weeeeiiird. ]

[shaft]

That's right.

Did you know another Alphinaud...?

[stillnot]

Yeah. We were roommates pretty early on.

Aaand now he has no idea who I am. [ which she isn't particularly emotional about, but. again. weeeeiiiiiird. ]

[shaft]

[ and they were roommates... ]

I had the same experience with Molly. It's uncanny. They look, sound and act just like the person you know, but...

[stillnot]

Alphinaud, Lup, Hua Cheng, Emet...

[ bro this is so many people ]

Well. I guess Emet looks a little different.

[shaft]

[ wow ]

That... is a lot of people. Is there anyone here that recognizes you?

[stillnot]

Bucky and Zuko.

[shaft]

Oh. That's the one that messed with your memories...?

[stillnot]

So you have heard of it.

[shaft]

I must've missed the part where it was a simulation.

[ huh! ]

Wait, so you met a younger version of me too.

[stillnot]

Fair enough. We were there and we missed it for weeks.

[ haha. also im losing it at my own memloss. cLAUDE I FORGOT ABOUT HIM ]

A little. We didn't talk much.

[shaft]

[ i see cola... ]

That's alright. I wasn't nearly as charming at that age.

[stillnot]

[ DONT JUDGE ME ]

Oh, now I remember. You jumped out and scared us while we were looking for a body.

[shaft]

Was that a popular decision?

[stillnot]

No.

[shaft]

[ closes his eyes ]

Sounds about right.