She says it quietly, the wariness in her face melting away to something much more sombre. The words have the sound of something that's been said before, an immutable truth. 'I saw you die-- that man, I-- I can't even remember his name, he unplugged you from the Cyber-Planner and you died, and you didn't regenerate, and then I was stranded--'
She clamps her mouth shut, lest her words run away with her and she spill out the whole story, everything that's happened to her since they were parted. Distantly, Charley feels a tremor in her fingers and a hot constriction in her throat. Around it, her voice rasps faintly.
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She says it quietly, the wariness in her face melting away to something much more sombre. The words have the sound of something that's been said before, an immutable truth. 'I saw you die-- that man, I-- I can't even remember his name, he unplugged you from the Cyber-Planner and you died, and you didn't regenerate, and then I was stranded--'
She clamps her mouth shut, lest her words run away with her and she spill out the whole story, everything that's happened to her since they were parted. Distantly, Charley feels a tremor in her fingers and a hot constriction in her throat. Around it, her voice rasps faintly.
'I never thought--'
She can't quite get the rest of it out.