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@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ The job was not so drastic as the training made it sound. Mostly, she would just
Sure, she would also send out the occasional metapsionic pulse — one of the defining features of the job, and the deciding factor as to who would be Mantis for the shift — to find out who around her was a psionics user and take notes just in case, but mostly, she just...talked. She just existed as the station's sibling — though perhaps less an *older* sibling, as Soot thought of themself. She was still childish, still, in some weird way only twelve years old, despite this twenty-five year old body she inhabited. She just mingled with her family and helped how she could. Sure, she would also send out the occasional metapsionic pulse — one of the defining features of the job, and the deciding factor as to who would be Mantis for the shift — to find out who around her was a psionics user and take notes just in case, but mostly, she just...talked. She just existed as the station's sibling — though perhaps less an *older* sibling, as Soot thought of themself. She was still childish, still, in some weird way only twelve years old, despite this twenty-five year old body she inhabited. She just mingled with her family and helped how she could.
Soot did not know the specifics. They were not a doctor — or at least not a psychologist, for they were also a fully qualified CMO — and so they did not even pretend to. They just knew that sometimes they were Abby, that remembering things that happened while they were Abby was like reading a story, ill-conceived and more often than not a picture book, scant on the details. They imagined it must feel similar to Abby, too: perhaps she remembered what happened to her as Soot was akin to remembering a dream.
(Command ethos: older sibling, wants to support the station) (Command ethos: older sibling, wants to support the station)
(Glimmer keeps rising) (Glimmer keeps rising)