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You hate him. You hate him so much. This is the stupidest thing you've ever heard. So if you cut someone open and drained the blood out they wouldn't be a real person?
«They would die, Charlie.»
«But if you somehow averted that, then yes.»
God-damnit! So— so— <span class="mu-i">Madrigal</span> has blood. You've seen the blood she has. So Gil has blood right now, technically, so—
«It is not his body. He is merely inhabiting it. There is a substantive difference.»
«If left inside for long enough, the blood will work at him, and it will become his body. In this case he will be real.»
«But he will not be your precious Beetles.»
You look anxiously at Gil, who lowers his cigarette. "...What? Is there something I-I-I—"
"No! No." You wave your hands at him. "You're fine. You're just—" (Do you have to get him out of Madrigal right now, or can you wait until after Headspace? Why didn't he tell you it was dangerous?!) "—fine. Go back to thinking."
«It is a slow working. At the minimum it would take an unbroken week. Because the body is otherwise unoccupied, likely longer.»
«One day of exposure is harmless. Panic is unattractive.»
«At least you have been convinced of my veracity, I suppose.»
No, you're not— go to hell! You were simply considering the matter because Monty told you to earlier. That's it. The blood stuff is stupid, and the reality stuff was stupid, and you regret ever asking about the stupid cigarette, and he can stop lecturing at you now.
«Am I provoking feelings of inferiority and unintelligence in you.»
No! Shut up. You hate him.
«Then I do not understand what underlies this absurd reaction.»
«Do I actually have to list corroborating evidence. I have shown you how I am hollow. The scruffy man is part-unreal and he is also hollow. You yourself have been severed from your haemic body. You have sunken into trances. What is your alternative explanation.»
«If the word 'magyck' so much as passes your—»
You <span class="mu-i">told</span> him to stop lecturing at you. You told him. So why won't he—
«You are being stubborn. I do not understand why.»
«Again, this is not advanced. I would go as far as to call this common knowledge. It should in no way be—»
Why don't you know the common knowledge? Why don't you know it, Richard. Why. Did you forget about it?
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«...»
Because you haven't forgot about that (ha ha), so he knows. You remember (ha ha ha) that you're missing <span class="mu-i">two-and-a-half</span> years of your life, during which maybe you learned this extremely common knowledge. Maybe that's why you're so dumb and dim-witted, Richard. Maybe you just can't remember anything.
Anyways, these are just things you think about when you've gone too long without other things to think about. You're going back to positive thinking now.
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