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[[size 105%]][[span style="font-family: Courier"]]__Researcher Talloran__:[[/span]][[/size]]
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[[size 105%]][[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Foundation Researcher of indeterminate age eternally punished.[[/span]][[/size]]
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[[size 105%]][[span style="font-family: Courier"]]__[[[scp-3999|The Being]]]__:[[/span]][[/size]]
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[[size 105%]][[span style="font-family: Courier"]]The one who is correct.[[/span]][[/size]]
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[[size 105%]][[span style="font-family: Courier"]]__Doctor Hikari Yamada__:[[/span]][[/size]]
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[[size 105%]][[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Medical professional at Site-??. Hates being called "nurse".[[/span]][[/size]]
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[[size 105%]][[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Head of Psychology. Had two appointments with Talloran.[[/span]][[/size]]
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We are on the balcony of the second-floor of a lovely, expensive beach-side resort. The weather is perfect for relaxing outside; at 35°C (or 95°F), there is no reason not to get some fresh air. The wind is, at worst, incredibly light. Seagulls are out on the sand, and the ocean is still. We see our main star, RESEARCHER TALLORAN, lying in a soft chair underneath a parasol. Meanwhile, DOCTOR HIKARI YAMADA has opted directly for sunbathing. Despite the weather, both are in their professional work clothes. If one didn't know better, they'd think that it was colder than it actually is. PAUL MCGANN is on the beach, lying down on the sand and tanning.
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RESEARCHER TALLORAN awakens with a startle, with it being the first time in 452,380 years that a new cycle began in a place not born of darkness. The area is unfamiliar; when was the last time TALLORAN ever been to anything like a hotel, let alone a beach? To the right is someone real familiar; DOCTOR HIKARI YAMADA. It doesn't take YAMADA long to notice TALLORAN, now shuffling around the balcony in a nervous sweat. She looks up from her Wired June 2017 issue and chuckles.
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]You're finally up and about. You've been conked out for such a while, I thought maybe you'd have Sleeping Beauty Syndrome.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Hey, hey hey hey hey hey, w-where are we exactly? This is different. It's way, way different from before. Are... are, crap, are you --[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Relax. The Being can't follow you here. You managed to get some breathing room.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]B-but I don't understand. What's --[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]If I knew the answers here, so would you.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](YAMADA takes out a lantern from underneath her chair and starts to light it. TALLORAN continues to pace around, looking frantically over the area.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Right now, I'm just an extension of your memories and emotions. I guess you always thought highly of me, huh? Calm under pressure, even when shit hits the fan, the Foundation ideal. You definitely wanted that. Maybe that's why I'm here?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]But, but... I just don't understand. It's... it's bright out here, and happy, it's gonna get fucked isn't it?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Try and relax. It gets dark in there, so you'll need to just trust me and follow closely so you don't get lost. We have to move fast in there.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](TALLORAN halts, looking towards the inside of the resort. Now that it was mentioned, it is incredibly dark in there. Before TALLORAN can get more confused, YAMADA grabs TALLORAN's arm and walks over to the door. With that forceful determination, even if the world isn't making sense, an obvious, if small, look of relief spreads over TALLORAN's face.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I... sure. Only as long as you explain to me what is happening with all of this.[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I will. Just do us a favor. The moment I open the door, close your eyes and imagine this is Site-118. And if you must open your eyes, don't look up at me.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](Before TALLORAN can say anything, YAMADA opens the door. Immediately, an overwhelming sense of darkness and fluidity floods the area, and TALLORAN is forced not to look. Site-118 starts to come to mind. TALLORAN remembers; that was where ████████ last worked. Shit, THE BEING'S claws are scratching the eyelids. Site-118. It was a small enough site that it was easy to map out the area. That's right... down the stairs. Then take two lefts. Go down another flight of stairs. Claws have reached the cornea. Circle around behind the stairs, then open the door in front. You take one more right, and that's how you get to...)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]We're outside again. Open your eyes now.[[/span]]

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It's a clear, starry night. The resort is behind RESEARCHER TALLORAN and DOCTOR HIKARI YAMADA, and a path in a sparse forest stretches outwards.
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TALLORAN is in awe of the surroundings. It's been ages since there was such a peaceful moment as this one. Back when reality still existed, if one were to be generous. YAMADA waits a few seconds for TALLORAN to get a bearing for the setting before walking forward, dragging TALLORAN along with her with the lantern in the other hand.
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]See, isn't it fine?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Yeah... I guess it was. It's uh. Wow. Shit. It's really nice out here, isn't it. Is this still a trap?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]No. If it was a trap, you'd have been caught in it already. We have a bit of a walk to get to what I want to show you, so let's talk some.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I guess. You're not The Being, but what are you? Why is everything here all safe and cozy? How come --[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I still remember you?[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]You still remember me?[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Hah! Thought you'd say that. I mean, you do have to keep in mind, I am only an extension of you in here. You must remember enough about me though, if I'm here now.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]So you... aren't actually Dr. Yamada then. For certain.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Yeah, though I can't say that's a bad thing. I'm sure the real real Yamada would hate to be in the position we're in right now.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]But wait![[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]You don't... you don't fully act like her. She was... shit. I can't remember that well. She wasn't as dry though.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Not sure! I guess it's because you can't remember me well enough to fully capture my personality. How do you think I acted then?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]More uh... playful? Sparkly? Yeah. I think so anyway.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Alright then. Just --[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]-- like --[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]-- that?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](TALLORAN snorts.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]A little bit too peppy, but in the right ballpark.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](The two share some laughs as they continue to walk on, conversation having died down a substantial degree. It's only a full minute before TALLORAN speaks up again.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Why is it that I'm safe here? What makes this different from all the other times The Being got to me?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]You'll have to think about what was different from usual in the past couple years then! Surely you must have an idea, O Grand Researcher Talloran.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]That's just it though. You obviously don't remember because I can't remember. I don't know why The Being would let up on me now when it never has. At least, I don't think it ever has. Maybe this thing has happened before, and I can't remember that! Fuck, why does any of this happen?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](There is a short pause as they approach a grand, scenic gate by the end of the path.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Maybe it's because you came to an understanding about something. You didn't just spend the last few hundred thousand years in vain. I'm not sure what you finally understood, but it had to have been something, right? That's the only thing I can think of. And maybe that's why we're coming here. Do you remember now, where we are?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](YAMADA sets the lantern down and opens the gate with both of her hands, motioning for TALLORAN to go in.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I definitely would have remembered this giant gate. I guess the forest and its path are familiar... shouldn't it be ladies first?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](YAMADA smiles and continues to motion. TALLORAN breathes in deeply, exhaling with as much force. TALLORAN sighs, tenses up, and heads through the gate.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](The dirt path quickly transitions into one made of stone. As TALLORAN continues on it, a look of familiarity and shock starts to appear, eyes opening wide. YAMADA follows behind, quickly keeping pace. The two eventually reach their destination, and TALLORAN quickly runs over to it; [[[scp-765|a calm, quiet pond]]].)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Oh... oh wow. How serene. It's still here...[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Mmhmm! Spick and span, isn't it? No ducks out here, unfortunately. I really wish they came by more often. Once in a while was never enough.[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]That's right. Yeah. Yeah! The one time I was here, we both came together on assignment. And, and we stayed here for the full week. This place was... real nice. Why didn't we get assigned to it more often?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I don't know. You were always so stressed, why didn't you come here more often? Also, I'm not exactly --[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Please don't remind me of that. I just need this bit of joy right now.[[/span]]

[[=]]
[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](TALLORAN splashes the pond, sighing.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]That also explains the gate; I remember you showing me that once.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](YAMADA sits down by TALLORAN, dipping her feet in the water.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Ah, how nice. You remember working with me, right? You got to hear my patients express gratitude for my work... heh, they even called me something real particular around you. You remember, right?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Yeah. "My sunshine." How endearing. You were some people's reason for living. That's an amazing quality in and of itself.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Somehow, I forgot about this... I didn't think I'd be finding the pond here of all places. But wait... I remember. When we were here, we got interviewed by... uh, by...[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Dr. Glass, wasn't it?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Yeah, but I didn't see him when we walked in. I don't even know if I can see more than one of my own manifestations of people I know.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](TALLORAN looks up at YAMADA before realizing someone is sitting on the bench behind her. The figure's back is to everyone. He waves his hand and calls out.)[[/span]]
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[[=]]
[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Hey! Long time no see, Talloran.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](BLACKOUT)
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The duck pond.
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TALLORAN, YAMADA, and GLASS are all on a bench overlooking the pond. The perspective has shifted now, as everything but the bench have moved around to accommodate the three overlooking the pond. While GLASS and TALLORAN are in full-focus, YAMADA starts to loose transparency and clarity.
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Funny that you remember me better than Yamada. If she were here, that'd be real insulting to her, wouldn't it?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](GLASS takes a bite of an apple. Despite the apple and GLASS appearing solid, GLASS phases through the apple. Crunching noises can be heard as GLASS continues to chew, throwing the apple in the pond for the ducks.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I still feel insulted, you know! Hmmph. I guess I get it though.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Huh?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Well, people tend to remember the negatives much better than the positives. That's just how our brains adapted to survive. You may have been great friends with Dr. Yamada, but the two times you've spent with me is easier to remember specifics for. We didn't exactly talk about the happiest of stuff, right?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I guess not? I guess if I'm seeing the Head of Psychology himself, then it's very much not a happy case.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]YAMADA[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]What did you two talk about anyhow? That's not something the calm and steadfast side of you would be dealing with.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I remember the first session for sure. It was about the uh... the roughness I've had dealing with anomalies. No one tells you this when you first join, but you're just so likely to end up traumatized and messed up. I thought I got through my first couple years fine before they found me having a meltdown by some humanoid's cell.[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Do you remember the anomaly?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Would that even matter, really?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]No wonder I couldn't figure out which one that was just now. And the second session?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Hey, wait... if I remember it, that means you would, so why don't you say it?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](TALLORAN stares down at the ground, frustrated, as GLASS gets up to pick another apple off of a nearby tree.)[[/span]]
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[[=]]
[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]For patients undergoing psychotherapy, it helps them process stuff a lot easier when they explain what they are feeling or remember of events. A manifestation is still just a manifestation, but you are you yourself. So you should say it.[[/span]]

[[=]]
[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]You're no fun.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I'm only fun on my off-days.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](GLASS bites into the apple.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]It was... about my teenage years and young adulthood. I had a real rough time surviving before I got picked up by the Foundation. It's tough. But it's hard to remember that many details about it. I just know quite a bit of it was my own fuck-ups.[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Like?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Again, hard to remember, but... not taking the chance to move houses when I had the finances, or not sticking up for myself when it would have saved me jobs. Shit like that.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Maybe The Being is eating up your negative emotions. That could be likely, especially if you're at the point now where you're unstressed enough that you can spend time here and enjoy it. I mean, relative to everything else.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Fuck, I don't like that. That'd mean that being hurt for all this time is supposed to be a positive![[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]And to you, that'd be wholly negative, ri --[[/span]]

[[=]]
[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Yeah actually, it would be! Hey, Yamada, aren't you still there?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](TALLORAN looks up, only to see YAMADA completely gone.)[[/span]]
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[[=]]
[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Oof. Unfortunate.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]W... what? But I can still remember her. Why isn't she here?[[/span]]

[[=]]
[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I think our subject of discussion's finding you.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](The two remain silent for minutes. THE AUDIENCE grows impatient. The world gradually shifts itself again. GLASS looks up at the sky.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Hey... our session is almost up. But I just want to ask you about something. Earlier, you talked about the Foundation being traumatizing, and having a rough young adulthood. But you didn't say anything about it being wholly your fault when it wasn't, and vice versa, right?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](TALLORAN remains silent for twenty seconds.)[[/span]]
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[[=]]
[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Do you think you've accepted that oftentimes, the bad shit that happens to you isn't your fault? And that when it is your fault, you know it and can accept it?[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](TALLORAN remains silent for another minute. THE AUDIENCE starts to riot.)[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Sometimes, if you shift your point of view, you can reach new levels of understanding with yourself, and with your actions. I didn't have time to teach you that out there in reality, but here I think you understand.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]TALLORAN[[/span]]
[[/=]]

[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]I...[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](As TALLORAN stands up, the physical form that is taken begins to gradually break off and disintegrate. Bits detach, and TALLORAN shakes, staring at GLASS surprised.)[[/span]]
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[[=]]
[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]GLASS[[/span]]
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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]]Who knows when our next chance at calm is? But when you get it, remember what you learned on your way there.[[/span]]

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[[span style="font-family: Courier"]](THE AUDIENCE floods the stage, taking the form of THE BEING now, and the world shatters. TALLORAN hesitantly nods and reaches out to GLASS, before the body completely breaks and there is no remaining light.)[[/span]]
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