"So probably already past Baby's First Murders. Exciting. Do you know where? Are they giving you a real tight deadline?"

"It's possible they're using her exclusively as a hostage and not, per se, a second Svetka Ignatyeva.  They have not sent me any demands directly, just revealed her existence to the press."

"Well, if you can find out where she is I guess I might have rescue applicable powers end of week. Though I won't have, like, any practice."

"It will be difficult to investigate this while ensuring the safety of you two."

"Yeah. Sorry about your clone."

"...I do not currently feel any emotional attachment to her," she tries.

"I guess that's convenient for us getting through awakening."

"It is bad for anyone to be tortured, but if the two of you will be were I to leave you, then this is not worth preventing it from happening to her?  Is this so?"

"That sounds basically right? Like there's two of us but, also, if we or you respond to this sort of thing there are lots of six year olds around."

"That seems - wrong -"

"The entire point of the tactic is that it seems wrong. If they were holding an ear of corn hostage we would be like 'what's the game here'. So instead they have a six year old Svetka clone. But I don't really care that she's a Svetka clone? I care that she's a six year old. And I don't want to suggest to them that they should try a little harder by abducting a field trip of first graders at the zoo."

"But surely most people expect her to care that it's her clone - otherwise why would they have bothered with one -"

"I guess maybe they do expect that? But she doesn't, apparently."

"...It seems very possible I have been assessed as being a kind of selfish which lends itself to this sort of pressure being effective."

"Were they like, giving you personality tests, or just creepily observing?"

"Neither exactly.  Much of my life can be said to have been a series of tests, even when the outcomes were also serving other goals.  They certainly took notes on the fact that I could be convinced to kill my parents and my reaction to having done this, for example."

"What was your reaction?"

"Nothing unusual compared to other targets."

"If they know you don't care about your family...  Aren't clones just twins, but delayed?  Or are we in a spy thriller where they're - more than that."

"I would not describe them as only 'twins but delayed', no."

"What are clones like in spy thriller universe? We're apparently avoiding the trope where they pop out already fully grown..."

"They seem to be approximately the same as their progenitors except for differences in circumstance and upbringing."

"That's... also what twins are? Pretty much?"

"...No.  Twins are only as alike as siblings are, generally."

"I mean identical twins. They're not the same person but that's because they encounter stuff and wind up trying to differentiate from each other on purpose and stuff."