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Bella gives James a lift back to her home after they bid their alts in Milliways goodbye.
"Tell me about your best friend. Does everybody call her Virgo?"
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"If you want to - not, for a while, however much of a while, that's fine, which should go without saying but apparently to some little part of my brain it doesn't so I want that understood."
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"You're welcome."
(Snuggles. Snuggles snuggles snuggles how could she miss something like that, isn't she supposed to be introspective, there is nothing like this in any of her notebooks.)
(Snuggles. Snuggles snuggles snuggles how could she miss something like that, isn't she supposed to be introspective, there is nothing like this in any of her notebooks.)
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"I love you," she sighs. "And I want you to be happy and to get things that you want and not things that you don't want. And I don't see how anything about that is an ethical inhibition. It should just be wrapped up in loving you. Shouldn't it? I don't know which parts are soul-parts."
eversomuchfun
"That is all wrapped up in loving someone for me," he says. "And not in any part of my soul. But sometimes vampires do find that for whatever reason their mortal affections don't carry. Perhaps the actual boundaries of the soul's effect on the brain differ case by case."
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"Maybe."
Pause.
"I - wonder if I had better tell the other Bells. They're probably wired like me. I guess it's unlikely any of them will be presented with any comparable choice, but - unlikely things sometimes happen. Would that be awful of me? If I told them? Not in the book, I wouldn't write it in the book."
Pause.
"I - wonder if I had better tell the other Bells. They're probably wired like me. I guess it's unlikely any of them will be presented with any comparable choice, but - unlikely things sometimes happen. Would that be awful of me? If I told them? Not in the book, I wouldn't write it in the book."
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"But would you rather I wasn't specific? They'll listen to me if I just tell them that something worse than the alternative-as-we-knew-it happened. They won't like it but they'll listen to me. Golden won't tell if I ask her not to. They might be able to guess a short list, but not the exact thing."
cross_and_bow
"If she'd killed or tortured somebody, that would also be bad. If she'd... actually the mere fact that she had a serious personality change, any serious personality change, might do it. I was hoping I'd turn out like you. With maybe a different wardrobe and having to do more of my ethical process by thinking instead of feeling, nothing big."
eversomuchfun
"My best hypothesis at this moment," says Sherlock, "is that part of the reason I am such an outlier is because so much of my identity was deliberately constructed. That and luck."
cross_and_bow
"I deliberately edit myself. I guess that's not the same thing as building myself from scratch."
eversomuchfun
"Apparently not. For one thing, I don't honestly believe I could do what I did again."
eversomuchfun
"Studied the books obsessively, learned everything I thought I might need to know, modified my accent and speech patterns, and somewhere along the way began to think of myself as Sherlock Holmes instead of as no one."
cross_and_bow
"I don't think I could do that. Even if I thought it would be a really good idea to be someone other than Bella. I don't think I could want to. I mean, I could probably learn an accent if I tried, that sort of thing, but it'd wind up being cosmetic on me."