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She’d been his first friend. Even before Tim had joined the institute, he’d had Sasha. Not that they’d been particularly close, before Tim had joined them, but they’d been… twin spirits, in a sense. Sasha’s curiosity had been endless, and she’d had a mischievousness to her that had reminded Jon of when he was a boy, sneaking into all sorts of places he wasn’t meant to be.
It made sense, in a way, that their lives would be claimed by the same entity. They were two sides of a coin, tossed in the same horrible well.
“I’ve thought of my question.” Jon announced softly, somehow finding the will to speak.
Nikola paused, tilting her sagging face up towards him. “Oh?”
Jon thought it over, trying to find the phrasing. ”When I-Don’t-Know-You replaces someone… do they cease to exist?”
Nikola’s face pulled into a grin, and Jon had the sense that if she had eyes they would light up.
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Michael waits just a little longer for his mercy kill, leaving Jon rattled enough to make his most desperate bargain yet.