I don't know. [He paws at this eyes as Glacius pulls his arm around him, his touch cold on Carlisle's still-bare skin.] I- I can't ever know for sure, but the way he said some things, and the hurt in his voice... I thought, perhaps, some of how he was was simply intrinsic to your people. You two are... so different.
[And that's for the best, especially with how things are now, what they have between them.]
But this other you with your memories and feelings -- what he said was so like Algidus. They were things he had said. Reactions, little tells here and there. Behaviors the two of you shared. I even thought you might be him when we first met. If—
[He swallows, trying to keep the quiet panic rising in this voice as his nerves make his stomach churn. The stars don't help him, the vastness of even illusionary ones making him feel small.]
If he'd found you, would he have truly tried to take your place in this city? With all these worlds and times, if there is another you out there, is there another me?
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[And that's for the best, especially with how things are now, what they have between them.]
But this other you with your memories and feelings -- what he said was so like Algidus. They were things he had said. Reactions, little tells here and there. Behaviors the two of you shared. I even thought you might be him when we first met. If—
[He swallows, trying to keep the quiet panic rising in this voice as his nerves make his stomach churn. The stars don't help him, the vastness of even illusionary ones making him feel small.]
If he'd found you, would he have truly tried to take your place in this city? With all these worlds and times, if there is another you out there, is there another me?