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Well then, what are you, seeing as you seem to be a separate entity from myself.
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I'm your shadow.
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I may be a separate entity now.
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Well.
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I don't think I'm supposed to be.
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That's a bit Peter Pan for my tastes,
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Do I sew you back on?
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I don't know.
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I guess you could try.
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That sounds kind of painful for both of us, though.
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It was a joke.
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Where did I lose you?
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I apologize, after the terror of separation I'm not much in the mood for jokes.
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No, I apologize. I shouldn't joke around with a traumatized existential quandary anyway.
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In any case do you even remember where you were lost? I hadn't realized you were gone.
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It was just the next moment you were gone.
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Though, evidently, you didn't notice me missing.
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Not sure how to feel about that.
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Well, I'm not exactly constantly looking at you. A shadow is primarily seen by others.
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Please, try not to take it as an insult.
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I'll try not to.
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How long have you wandered?
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I don't know.
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Since the sun was low.
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It went high and then low again.
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So a night and a day, roughly.
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No.
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There's no way I could survive nightfall.
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Oh. I get it.
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You didn't get lost until I entered the meteor.
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The sun rising and leaving was us moving away and toward the green sun.
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The reason you haven't dissipated is because of the constant light here.
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Is that it? Time isn't easy for me.
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I thought it could not have been more than a day.
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Because there has been no nightfall.
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It could easily have been weeks.
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I feel sick.
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Sit down, if you're capable of it.
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I need to ask you some things before I feel comfortable initiating the procedure that could rejoin us.
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Um. All right.
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Are you comfortable with losing all individual thought? If you can't remember anything before separating, it likely means that you're consciousness was created as a means to get you back to me, and would likely be destroyed once we are rejoined.
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I remember things before separating.
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Ah. Good.
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I remember everything.
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All of my memories? Child, you weren't present during many of them.
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How can a shadow remember something in the dead of night, for example.
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I believe I have been cognizant for longer than you have.
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I may not remember the dead of night.
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But I remember arriving on a meteor.
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Ooh. This is promising. I apologize for calling you child, as it now seems that you are the elder.
