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Maybe the real unethical experimentation on nonconsenting subjects was the friends we made along the way
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"Mostly I just meant that she was a woman, and blonde, and didn't look anything like me. And I've checked for long-lost siblings."

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"Oh. Right. That." She'd been thinking of trying to find someone by their deeds but it's just now occurred to her that she bets this other person would not have predicted being an evil scientist so how would they even predict why their brother would be? 

...she's really buying the story wholesale, huh. Well, she supposes she might as well act as if it's true even if it's not, it's a good practice to inhabit the mindset of someone who does believe it at minimum to understand them better.

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"And, you know, there's a few more heroes today than there were even a century ago."

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Okay, seriously, is he reading her mind. AAAAALOUETTE, GENTILLE ALOUETTE, AAAAAAALOUETTE, JE TE PLUMERAAAAAI—

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"No, I can't. – sorry, that's one of the faces I know too well to pass up."

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"Faces."

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"I have a knack for reading people, and I like to follow logical implications even when they're not relevant. You mentioned that I might not be as different from her as I thought, hence that Beowulf might be more self-similar still; I said that I meant physical similarity, and so you assumed I didn't understand what you'd meant in the first place, which I corrected while you were still thinking about it. Then you made the extremely specific face people make when they think I'm reading their minds. It's not exactly cold-reading, but it's still a bit of a party trick."

Beat.

"And, no, I'm very fun at parties."

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"I'm sure you are. I've never been to one."

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"What, never?"

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"...my social circle is weird," she says, which conveys most of what she means without (hopefully) leaking too much.

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"Ah, that'd explain it. My friends are all completely normal, as well you know."

The winged manikin makes a noise like jingling bells.

"I didn't mean you."

The bells intensify.

"Oh, shut up," Thoma laughs.

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"If they go to parties they are probably more normal than mine," though she can't imagine this man particularly likes the rest of his social circle.

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"You realize you make it harder to let you deflect when you say such intriguing things. Anyway, if you have any clever ideas how to find a long-lost sibling feel free to let me know. Until then, would you like to... what do people do... work on our respective projects in the same room? I've got some stuff that isn't very horrible at all, mostly agronomics."

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