Aki ‘woke up’ already frowning.
Brow furrowed, she glared at the announcement until-
“Crow!” She trilled back. “It’s been too long. I only wish we could have reunited under better circumstances.” Crossing her arms, she began to frown again. “I can only assume we’ve had the same… well, hallucination is the most logical explanation, but that wouldn’t explain this,” she gestured to the notice on her phone, “or the fact that we’ve woken up… where ever this is.”
She looked around, clearly disturbed despite Crow’s cheerful presence. “I thought we’d put all of these types of events behind us finally.” Looking at her arm, she felt compelled to make sure she couldn’t see her Signer mark.
It was strange how unfair this all felt to her. She had memories of a life where she was normal, memories of a life that only was recently normal – because she had fought tooth and claw to make it so – and now she found herself in a situation that was anything but normal. There were too many thoughts, feelings, and experiences mixed up inside of her; too many for one person, surely, and she didn’t want to dwell on them right now.
“Assuming there are copies of us and they are slowing losing their lucidity, it would be best to find them as soon as possible while we can still reason with them.” Aki straightened up and began walking with purpose. “The clinic and our- their house would be good places to start. After that-”
She thought of the green-eyed teen she had called her son. He was probably just a product of her hallucination, but she couldn’t help but miss him like she had just lost someone she’d known for a long time.
“After that, we can deal with everything else.”
None of this made any sense, and he could only rub the back of his neck in frustration as he tried to keep things at least a bit more lighthearted. But it...Was difficult to try and reconcile their circumstances. Crow himself had lived a whole different life, with a whole different set of people. And he remembered everything, so Aki must, too. They had basically spent most of their lives together, and that kid...
It must mean that kid was someone they would run into, too. Was there another copy of him? Probably...
And looking at Aki, while he was already struggling with it, he couldn’t imagine how she was feeling.
“Yeah...Though I’m way more worried about that kid than I am about either of us. Even in a whole other world, we can handle each other. He could be out doing anything, being a teen and all.” He frowns. “And we don’t have a quick way to get there.”
...Unless - he’d left most of that behind him, buuut...
“You...Don’t think anyone would mind if we borrowed a car, right Doctor?” He looks almost sheepish about it. Almost. But he absolutely knew how they could easily ‘creatively borrow’ a vehicle, and he’d fill it up with gas and return it! It’s an emergency anyway!
