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[synanthrope]

What's this?

Tick-tock, tick tock. I hear a clock but I don't see one.

I don't know where I am, and that's not particularly common. But it does seem very...I don't think familiar is the right term. Although it feels that, too. Interesting.

This isn't New York.

Hello. I'm lost.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

What's a saya?

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[synanthrope]

Who.

I am. That's my name.

Satya, actually, but no one calls me that anymore.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh, right. Of course. It's a nice name -- both of them. Are there a lot of you about?

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[synanthrope]

Sometimes I number in the thousands.

But right now, only one.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Probably for the best. Less confusing that way.

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[synanthrope]

Will you tell me your name?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Chase. Doctor... Robert. Doctor Robert Chase.

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[synanthrope]

Are there three of you or are you trying to be charming?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

I was trying - failing - not to trip over my words. Just Chase, singular.

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[synanthrope]

May I call you Robert?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Um. If you want to.

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[synanthrope]

I do.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Then, sure.

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[synanthrope]

Have you been here long?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Eighteen months, now.

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[synanthrope]

Is that a long time?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

There are people who say they're at twice that and counting. It's more than the average.

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[synanthrope]

What's the average?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

I'd guess it at less than six.

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[synanthrope]

Three times that, then.

This seems familiar.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

This conversation? The numbers?

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[synanthrope]

The numbers.

The City.

The Warehouse and the Porshe.

It's very odd.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

The Porsche? That belonged to some awkward kid who never appreciated what he had.

[Cough.]

It's not unusual for people here to leave and come back with their memory of the place altered. Sometimes it's gone altogether, sometimes bits are retrievable. I was thinking about looking into it, once.

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[synanthrope]

Was his name Sam Whitwicky? Because Rosella said that before it belonged to him, it belonged to me.

Looking into memory? Are you a neurologist?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

...Then you've got taste. That was him.

And, no. But I've got a little experience in the practice of clinical hypnosis.