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05 | voice | day 108
I know that this sounds odd. [ And isn't really a question that people generally ask. Also what isn't odd, around here? It's her justification ] But with what's been happening I'd like to know.
[ There's a pause. It's a touchy subject, obviously, and she's not even sure where the conversations might go ]
I want to know about your experience with death. [ She's going to try and go slow on this. As slow as Lydia Martin wanting to know something can. But things are pretty messed up. She feels pretty messed up. And she'll even tell her reasons for asking if she's asked ]
Not just if you know someone has died but... if you've seen it. [ A two second pause ] Or nearly died.
It's happened here, and could have happened a lot more. [ If Dirk hadn't put out that useful message. People were still taken but at least they were warned ]
But- Can people come back? [ It might sound crazy, but it's happened before. It happened to Jackson - twice, although that was a supernatural thing. But it leaves the possibility, right? ]
( PRIVATE: Allison Argent | "Stiles" Stilinski )
[ There's a pause. It's a touchy subject, obviously, and she's not even sure where the conversations might go ]
I want to know about your experience with death. [ She's going to try and go slow on this. As slow as Lydia Martin wanting to know something can. But things are pretty messed up. She feels pretty messed up. And she'll even tell her reasons for asking if she's asked ]
Not just if you know someone has died but... if you've seen it. [ A two second pause ] Or nearly died.
It's happened here, and could have happened a lot more. [ If Dirk hadn't put out that useful message. People were still taken but at least they were warned ]
But- Can people come back? [ It might sound crazy, but it's happened before. It happened to Jackson - twice, although that was a supernatural thing. But it leaves the possibility, right? ]
( PRIVATE: Allison Argent | "Stiles" Stilinski )
- I'm going to the library. Hopefully it's as useful as it should be.
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But sometimes they do come back. It happened to a guy I used to live with, and, uh... [ He hesitates here; it's not something he talks about much, not something that a lot of people know about - just him, Erik, Charles, and River. Even Daneel doesn't know ] ...to me. I, um. Died. [ He chews on the inside of his bottom lip, decides that is probably plenty of detail for the purposes of this discussion, unless she asks for more. ]
[ Though he and Lydia had found Wallie's body and he'd refused absolutely to touch it or go near it, he hadn't given the reasons why. But with her asking, now, he wants to be honest. It's just a bit peculiar, even now, revealing his powers to others, not knowing how they'll react, if they'll treat him differently after. He wants to let her process the whole I-died-and-came-back thing before he dives into an explanation of his unusual ability ]
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[ Lydia sounds surprised. She is. Other than Jackson (and knowing that she'd resurrected Peter stupid Hale) she hadn't seen or spoken to anyone that had died before. Until now. And it seemed that it wasn't just limited to him, either ]
When?
[ She's not asking how, it's too traumatic no doubt, and she's not sure that she wants to know how, either. But she might ask how he came back, if he knows ]
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[ Even if Ned's accustomed to thinking of life and death as less unchangeable than others, that had still been startling to him. He still doesn't know how their captors managed it. ]
There's something else, too. [ He draws in a long breath, says in a rush ] I've got this thing. This... ability. When I touch dead things, they come back to life. I don't really know why, though best guess according to people I've met here is that I'm some kind of mutant and it's in my DNA. That's why I wouldn't- it's why I made you check for his pulse. If I'd touched him, he would have come back to life, and then I would have had to kill him again in a minute or else let someone else die. That's how it works.
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Did your... thing, was that was brought you back to life?
[ She doesn't know if it's a healing power, it sounds it (sort of) or if it was an experiment by the people that brought them here. She doesn't know what she'd rather think it was, either ]
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No, it wasn't. Everything was sort of... upside-down, that week. I didn't have my usual power. I know, because I tested it. I could touch dead stuff and nothing happened. But I could make things grow, just by touching the ground and sort of wanting it to happen, and whenever I got hurt- [ He says it as if it happened rather a lot, even though it was only for the space of a few days ] -I healed.
But like I said, everything was insane that week. Daneel turned into a human and River turned into a tree spirit and half my friends were vampires for some reason.
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[ She doesn't know if she wants to believe it but she does. It's weird enough that it could happen but horrifying enough that it shouldn't - that it's wrong ]
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Lydia... [ Ned isn't quite sure it's polite to bring it up, but his curiosity (and concern) is getting the better of him ] Can I just ask- why the question and answer session about all things morbid?
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But then she just looks at him or at the video, just for a moment. She'd expected someone to ask sooner or later ]
I keep finding bodies. Not just Wallie but I found one at home, and apparently I'll find more. [ If what Stiles said is true, anyway, and she believes him. He wouldn't make up this crazy crap ]
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[ He doesn't even question how she knows she is going to find more. Stranger things happen around here than getting a glimpse into one's future. ]
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[ Sounded dangerous, right? Apparently she could still drive and do so well despite everything ]
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That sounds... alarming. For you, I mean.
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[ It would still be bad, and frightening - or more weird, but less scary and freaking-out-y than having a body there too ]
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