"You wouldn't have to worry about dealing with this place anymore. When did you get your hand back?"

"I woke up with it," he says. "And if I thought 'death' was a good solution to being here, I could just try getting rid of myself in a more normal fashion, instead of being brutally savaged to death by a clone of myself?"

"I thought a more passive option might have been appealing to you."

"A more passive option would be drowning, I think," he says. "But no, not really, in case you were planning on 'helping me along' or something." Eyeroll.

"Should we wake him up and ask him?"

Shrug. "Go ahead, I guess?"

"No idea," says Blue.

She grabs Not-Thario by the collar and slaps him on the face a couple times.

He becomes conscious, sure, but he continues to act the exact same way – boneless – so she can only tell with the Force.

"Stop faking, we have questions."

So he opens his eyes and gives a rather strong impression of boredom.

"Who are you, where did you come from, why did you want to kill Thario?"

"I don't have a name, I don't know, and– because he is really fucking annoying?"

He says that last bit like it is quite evident and factual.

"Pretty strong opinion to have about someone whose only interaction with you has been running away."

"… Except for the fact that I know what his personality is like?"

She turns to point at Thario.

"You need to stop spitting out clones of yourself everywhere you go. This is getting out of hand."

"Do you think I got him intentionally?"

Eyeroll. Laden with 'you are really fucking annoying' subtext.

"This is what, the third time it's happened?"

"… Third?" he asks. "There are three of us and two animals, I don't know how you got 'three' from that."

"The soul animal I'm going to count, then Blue, then this guy. Which makes me suspicious of Tyler and the winged person, in retrospect."

"So what, you think literally everyone here is me except you?"

"The evidence seems suggestive, does it not?"

"… But even so, why would you be an exception?"

Can Not-Thario growl? Yes. Yes he can.