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Two questions, and neither of them have anything to do with each other.

[Oh that's fine, hello to you too, Draco. It's nice to see you sitting in front of what looks like a giant map of...the universe, perhaps. At least it's Draco's thoughts on the universe with various planets, constellations, and the like scattered across it. It should also be noted that Draco's face has a few colored lines on it from the markers, paints and ink he's using. His sleeves are rolled up to his elbows and he's still severely in need of a haircut seeing how his bangs are flopping right in his eyes. He was originally planning to go outside to test his newly leveled-up flight abilities, but with how cold it's been out and how recently he's finally shaken his flu? No. Way. In Hell.

But that's not the important part here. He's not looking at the bracelet as he addresses the city again, but rather he's continuing to etch lines and draw another red circle.]

So. Who do you think you are? And where can I find a decent telescope?

Answer to the best of your ability.

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It's quite smart that you prefaced that with "I think." How uncertain are you?

I am no longer a skinchanger, am I. But I know I was. This is my body, even if it is much changed.

So you're of the agreement that without the powers that make us ourselves in our worlds, we are no longer ourselves?

I am myself, but I am not wholly myself.

A shadow of your former self. Can you ever regain your true self here?

Why do you think I want to go home, Draco?

I've answered your question. What is your proposal?

The proposal obviously is offering a way to regain all things we've lost. That's what I'm working on, Sophie. A revival.

I'm not sure I follow. How would that even be possible?

You've heard of the consequences that occur if we use our original powers, haven't you?

I have.

What if I found a way around that?

[she is silent for a long time, and there's a subtle war on her face. she knows she's going mad here, slowly, as much as she's trying to hide it, and she knows that being herself again would ease so much of that. but hope is as much a weapon as anything else, in sophie's life, and she's afraid to let him wield that much of it.]

Have you?

Nearly, I think. I have theories and formulas which is much more than I had originally.

And what does this have to do with me?

I would think you'd like tobe one of the first to test it out.

You would have me entrust you with my life.

Possibly. I'd test it on something else prior to people first, what kind of potionmaker do you think I am?

I never said you'd use it recklessly, I said I would have to entrust it to you.

And would you?

[she's pretty sure it's suicide, that no matter how good he might be there are some things that are impossible. she's also sure that the gods will punish this particular impudence. perhaps she'd really die, and they wouldn't bring her back.

but she'd die as herself.]

...yes, I think I would.

...I thought you'd see it my way. Give me time, maybe another month at the most to really perfect it. [This can only end badly.]

[she's less sure than he is that she sees it his way, exactly, but the whys of it don't matter. either she will get what she wants or she will be able to rid herself of that stupid burning thread of hope that things could change. or she'll die, and the rest won't matter either way.]

Draco. I meant it when I said I don't have a soul. It's not hyperbole.

...is it something you would wish to regain?

It doesn't work like that. There is one soul per birth. My twin has it. We share, insofar as when she is saved or damned, I am as well.

It is simply something you must allow for in your work.

And it isn't something you could take from her?

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