Synchronization. He gets the idea, but there is still no getting around his main fear. No answer for it. He knows Mariko is doing the best that she can with what she has, and he nods again in agreement.
"What scares me is I know we aren't Retrospec's first round of this. Did they try that to people before? Another thing we might never know the answer to."
Kid. The kid. That really was him, wasn't it? Togusa got the image of that kid in a wheelchair but can't remember his face. And that was when all this started.
He watches Mariko fiddling with her hand, playing with it as if it's a toy. The movement is deliberate. Too much so.
"She's full, isn't she? Her whole body is- prosthetic? It's such a weird way of thinking about it. You imagine that term for an arm, like James. Not a whole body."
"But the other Togusa is natural. You already confirmed it." With a tip of his glass up towards her. He doesn't need to go back over the fear that had been so looming in his mind that she was able to put to rest. "I don't think I'm in for any more changes. But you.."
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Date: 2019-02-28 06:59 am (UTC)"What scares me is I know we aren't Retrospec's first round of this. Did they try that to people before? Another thing we might never know the answer to."
Kid. The kid. That really was him, wasn't it? Togusa got the image of that kid in a wheelchair but can't remember his face. And that was when all this started.
He watches Mariko fiddling with her hand, playing with it as if it's a toy. The movement is deliberate. Too much so.
"She's full, isn't she? Her whole body is- prosthetic? It's such a weird way of thinking about it. You imagine that term for an arm, like James. Not a whole body."
"But the other Togusa is natural. You already confirmed it." With a tip of his glass up towards her. He doesn't need to go back over the fear that had been so looming in his mind that she was able to put to rest. "I don't think I'm in for any more changes. But you.."
She knows what's coming.