What took him is supernatural in nature. He's not dead, but the only process we know for getting people back would probably kill him. The Admiral seemed like a safer option.
About a week before I came here? I would have thought people were talking about some sort of group psychosis.
[ She is sympathizing. Very clearly. No matter how weird her existence might be at this point, she'd thought she was normal for most of her life. Clever, good at putting together information, but normal. ]
The supernatural presence that we dealt with: it could change reality, make it into something else. He has the power to see the truth, to look past the story. He and his brother both.
Sometimes it was the present, something just about to happen. As it was happening. Definitely before there was any way for it to have gotten there 'normally'.
[ She tilts to one side. ]
For instance: we found one jammed inside of the cavity cut into a corpse, beneath the heart. It was the first clue we got that the corpse was going to jump off of the slab and kill half the deputies in the sheriff's station.
Which happened about five seconds after I read it.
[He sits back with that because those are two very big revelations. Taking out his canteen from a pocket, he shakes it before downing the rest of what's inside, the coffee downed and set to the side.]
[ She can smell the difference between alcohol and water, but she wouldn't have begrudged him a drink. And there is a bottle of scotch on one side of the room. ]
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Workaholic, huh?
[He sips at the coffee, finding a chair to sit on.]
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I won't deny that. I love what I do.
And I consider myself still on my last case. My deal has to do with what happened there.
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[He's mostly teasing, grinning over the rim of the cup.]
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[ But there's a little bit of something less cavalier in her smile. ]
I made a mistake. It cost someone else. I owe it to him, and his brother, to get him back.
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[He shrugs.]
Sounds cut and dry.
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What took him is supernatural in nature. He's not dead, but the only process we know for getting people back would probably kill him. The Admiral seemed like a safer option.
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[He's grown used to it himself and he kind of hates it.]
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[ She is sympathizing. Very clearly. No matter how weird her existence might be at this point, she'd thought she was normal for most of her life. Clever, good at putting together information, but normal. ]
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[He clears his throat.]
Being here actually makes me believe in my brother more than I did before.
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No, I'm well aware it's all real. Honestly, I'm not sure I would have accepted this place if I hadn't had my experience back home.
[ She tilts her head in obvious curiousity. ]
Your brother?
[ Which one, I wonder. ]
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[He taps the cup.]
Never knew if it was God or if he was just crazier than me. Now I - don't think it's God, but he's not crazy.
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There are some people who can see things, hear things, that other people can't. I learned about that recently.
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[He gestures to - well, the whole damn room.]
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My... grandfather, actually. Not that I knew him before the case a few weeks ago. He and my mom-
She didn't want to be around him, so I didn't grow up even knowing who he was.
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[He slouches forward, elbows on his knees, shifting to keep any weight off his right arm.]
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[ That, she doesn't hedge about. ]
The supernatural presence that we dealt with: it could change reality, make it into something else. He has the power to see the truth, to look past the story. He and his brother both.
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And you figured that out - how?
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That reality was - fucked. Or whatever.
[He doesn't understand it, but he's trying!]
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At first I thought it was a serial killer sending us messages, but that didn't explain how they knew certain things.
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They - told the future?
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Sometimes.
Sometimes it was the present, something just about to happen. As it was happening. Definitely before there was any way for it to have gotten there 'normally'.
[ She tilts to one side. ]
For instance: we found one jammed inside of the cavity cut into a corpse, beneath the heart. It was the first clue we got that the corpse was going to jump off of the slab and kill half the deputies in the sheriff's station.
Which happened about five seconds after I read it.
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[He sits back with that because those are two very big revelations. Taking out his canteen from a pocket, he shakes it before downing the rest of what's inside, the coffee downed and set to the side.]
That's fucked up.
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[ She can smell the difference between alcohol and water, but she wouldn't have begrudged him a drink. And there is a bottle of scotch on one side of the room. ]
It only got weirder from there.
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How weird?
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