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the classic twin trope strikes again
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Eventually, though, they'll return to the bar to let Remi in.

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While they do that, Angel looks around to see who's arrived since they left the bar room. Any familiar faces? And/or anyone who looks particularly magic?

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There are two identical young men with dark crystals growing out of their arms one o them is manipulating his crystals into elaborate fractals.

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Well, that looks like magic.

She wanders over to their table, "Hello! You wouldn't happen to be able to go through walls, would you?" 

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They blink.

"Yes. Well, kinda." Says one.

"We can't go intangible. But we can turn a wall into crystal, make a hole into the crystal, go through and then undo everything."

"Why do you need to go through walls?"

 

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"Those three over there," she motions to the three children crowded around the door, "Are trying to evacuate their family from their world. Unfortunately two of them came in from their bedroom, so one of their guardians is stuck behind a wall." 

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Meanwhile, Tobir pulls open the door and calls for his Uncle.

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After a few moments, Remi comes to the door, very confused and then, once he's had a moment to look around, quite scared. He stays on the other side of the door. 

"Tobir, what-?" 

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"It's a dimensional bar or something. They don't have reds, or pollution, or anything, and I found Heri!" Reassurance: important. Telling Remi about finding Heri is important, too, though. 

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"What?" He shakes his head, "They don't have- you found Heri?!" Despite the urgency of the other part of that statement, this is extremely distracting. He takes in the other two children, recognizing his friends' other son immediately. 

"Heri," he breathes.

 

"...You look like your father," he says, tears gathering in his eyes. 

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Well, that's a good way to set him off. His aunt would never speak of his dad...

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Hug.

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Remi hesitates, looking around the room, and then - crosses the threshold, kneeling down to hug both of the twins. 

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Angel looks back at the magic crystal twins/clones, "The majority of the population of their world is prejudiced against their people. To a genocidal degree." (Tell them-) "The kids are Heri, Tobir and Kenta. Twins and a cousin - the twins were separated to protect them from something to do with that prejudice. It sounded like there was some sort of abuse on Heri's end, from the cousin's father. His mother left him, though. She's the one we need to go through a wall to get to." 

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"Heri?" They both say, then they look at each other.

"Do you remember a...?"

"No." He frowns. "And we met people that met us as a baby."

The other turns back to Angel. "Do you know if the aunt's name is Rose or something similar?"

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"Her name wasn't mentioned, but you can ask," she suggests. To the door?

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To the door, the one that was playing with the crystals retracts the structure back into his arm.

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Heri has managed to get back himself into control by the time the three reach them.

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Tobir is still holding his hand though. 

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Remi stands, looking around again and spotting the approaching (twins? Clones?) Men. 

"Milliways," he murmurs, spotting the window, relieved and trepidatious in equal measures. "Can we help you?" He adds to the Henries.

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"Hi, do you already know Milliways?" Says one.

"We think we might be his alts. Our name is Henry Oswald." Says the other.

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Heri has run out of tears by now and is just frowning confused at them.

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"Yes, I know it. A good friend - their mother," he motions to the twins, "Introduced me to it a couple years ago." He looks between Heri and the two of them, "Different faces? What would you need to know to confirm it?"

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"Alts?" Tobir asks quietly. 

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"Alts are basically the same person but from different worlds. We were raised by our aunt alongside our cousin, and she left her husband because of his behavior towards us."

"And our name is Henry. Are you two," he points between Kenta and Heri. "Half-cousins, mothers are half-sisters?"

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