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| Coral, uh, I don't think this is a great time. |
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I can attend to this alone. |
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* It's about...
* God, how do I put this...
* I think you gotta go home, Cliff. |
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* No, I mean...
* Hhhggh.
* Before you landed in Fairwell. Did you have a game you played? |
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* That game.
* Did it have me in it? |
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* Not for sure, but... I had a hunch.
* The details don't matter.
* You're not from our world, Cliff. |
...No, I'm not.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you. |
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* God, I am past that.
* It's fine. No harm, no foul.
* And, you know... I really am glad we got to be friends. Despite it all. |
Same goes for you all, hey?
Rilly and Nix, I'm happy I got to spend the day with you. |
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Why are you saying it like that. |
And... Jiro, right?
I never did get you that beer. Sorry about that. |
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| That's alright |
| → | It was always more a metaphor anyway |
| Is that really important right now? |
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| It would have been nice to. Talk. Not over the radio... heh. |
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| → | This could never last forever. |
| I think that much is obvious. |
| Save your breath. We're about to be strangers again. |
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| That's where this is headed. Right, Coral? |
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* Yeah. That's right.
* ...There's something wrong in the universe.
* And I think we're what's causing it. |
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| Maybe we should hear her out, Nix... |
| The disruptions, the portals... I don't know. |
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* I wish you were right, Nix.
* But these worlds were never meant to hold us.
* Everything's coming apart because we're straining the fabric of these places with our presence.
* Like foreign bodies, letting in an infection. |
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| ...How do you know all this. |
| → | So we need to let the wound scab over. |
| Can we stop talking and just get this over with. |
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Allen wasn't from my world either, was he? |
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* ...Oh.
I mean... I can't say for sure, but... |
I... I get it.
Just...
Can you give me one last goodbye with the little guy? |
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* Of course, Cliff.
* You do what you gotta.
* Just, come back right after, okay? |
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* That goes for all of us.
* Every external element, everything that isn't native to our worlds, we need to put it back where it belongs. |
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What do you mean everything!? |
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| "Not native"? What the heck is that supposed to mean?? |
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* I mean everything that's come out of one of those corrupted doorways.
* You have to realise by now that some of the stuff we've been dredging up is not of this realm!
* The guns you're carrying, that great big buzzsaw wall you've got around town-- |
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| You want us to dismantle our defenses?? |
| Coral-- whatever concern you have, we are still at war. We can't throw away what meager advantage we have! |
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| Yeah, like you fleece me outta one orb, now you're saying I gotta give 'em all back!? |
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| Someone will have to tell Yadiel... |
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| And I still want to check out that cool artifact in your house Rilly told me about... |
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* Do you think I'm happy about this!?
* Do you think I want to leave and not come back!!? |
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* I want this to keep going on forever, I want to stay here, I want to keep being Coral, but it doesn't WORK like that!!!
* You didn't see what I saw!
* This is the END of the WORLD! It's LIFE OR DEATH!!
* We do NOT have a CHOICE!!! |
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You're going to drag me back through that door! |
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You're going to THROW AWAY |
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* Nix...
* How do you think I feel?? |
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I don't CARE how you feel!! |
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| * I'm just asking you to consider what's at stake here!! |
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You can't MAKE ME do ANYTHING! |
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| * EVERYTHING will burn! You included!! |
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* You CAN'T tell me that!!
* You CAN'T tell me that total annihilation is preferable than whatever world it was that you came from!! |
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| Her world... is that the one in Jiro's mirror...? |
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| There was a world I saw under Helen's forge that looked just like the game in Jiro's mirror... |
| And I know that's different from the one in the shack, where you're from... |
| The mirror, is that Nix's world...? |
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