[She says it. She says it, like it's no big deal, and beyond that, the idea that she's able to rattle off some cute nickname is just...so unfathomable that the first words out of his mouth are:]
You can't just call it--
[But Wonderland will have none of that. She can, and she will, clearly, call that thing 'Suit Guy', and nothing Jay says can make it any less the truth.]
[Jay's got his fingers hooked into his hair, like the pinpricks across his scalp will distract him from the gravity of what he's just learned, the thousands of implications spiraling outward like some hideous, fractal root system.]
[Half her body is tech, she says. He can't even comprehend that properly, trying to map the splitting headaches, the buzzing underneath his skull, the tears in the footage and the squeal of audio distortion onto a body that's more like the camera than his own flesh and blood. Then again, when the bullet punched through his side, it was almost a shock to see red. In all the dreams, there were always black ribbons of tape.]
[Did Tim know? Did Tim keep this a secret? (liar liar LIAR) Who else has seen it?]
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You can't just call it--
[But Wonderland will have none of that. She can, and she will, clearly, call that thing 'Suit Guy', and nothing Jay says can make it any less the truth.]
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So name it, but do not fear its name.][No, no, god no, he's not thinking about that.]
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No, no, no...
[Jay's got his fingers hooked into his hair, like the pinpricks across his scalp will distract him from the gravity of what he's just learned, the thousands of implications spiraling outward like some hideous, fractal
root system.][Half her body is tech, she says. He can't even comprehend that properly, trying to map the splitting headaches, the buzzing underneath his skull, the tears in the footage and the squeal of audio distortion onto a body that's more like the camera than his own flesh and blood. Then again, when the bullet punched through his side, it was almost a shock to see red. In all the dreams, there were always black ribbons of tape.]
[Did Tim know? Did Tim keep this a secret? (liar liar LIAR) Who else has seen it?]
How much do you know?