[ As Luka explains, Arid's attention slowly shifts from the door to the Fluid screen. At first, she does not understand what correlation his family might have to her pilot, but gradually, she begins to comprehend. ]
He... was not real?
[ It is difficult to process. The Josephs she had seen had not behaved like a crude simulation. It is not just that the specter had looked like him; it had spoken like him, too, revealing secrets that Arid had divulged to nobody in this system. And yet, there had been discrepancies as well: the red glow, his incorporeality, the fact that he had shown no shock or dismay that Arid had not been destroyed.
Had it really all been a deception?
Slowly, she moves away from the door. Her pilot is not here. And though there are many other threats in Deerington, he is not one of them. ]
Will these apparitions reappear on consecutive nights?
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He... was not real?
[ It is difficult to process. The Josephs she had seen had not behaved like a crude simulation. It is not just that the specter had looked like him; it had spoken like him, too, revealing secrets that Arid had divulged to nobody in this system. And yet, there had been discrepancies as well: the red glow, his incorporeality, the fact that he had shown no shock or dismay that Arid had not been destroyed.
Had it really all been a deception?
Slowly, she moves away from the door. Her pilot is not here. And though there are many other threats in Deerington, he is not one of them. ]
Will these apparitions reappear on consecutive nights?