He hadn't said his name, he's sure of that... he stopped using his first name years ago, he really hates the sound of it. But this kid saying it pulls another echo, another time, into focus and Dodger responds almost numbly.]
Don't mention it...
[He reaches up and idly wipes the blood that's running down his nose... yeah, this is just like how it had been in the Sphere, meeting people some other version of him had met and battling to stay in the present around them.
He brushes past Eichi to his own locker, fishing out a bottle of glowing blue pills and taking one.]
The androids don't come into this area. Not as far as I can tell. [He glances at him.] And I don't want you running off while I'm not looking.
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He hadn't said his name, he's sure of that... he stopped using his first name years ago, he really hates the sound of it. But this kid saying it pulls another echo, another time, into focus and Dodger responds almost numbly.]
Don't mention it...
[He reaches up and idly wipes the blood that's running down his nose... yeah, this is just like how it had been in the Sphere, meeting people some other version of him had met and battling to stay in the present around them.
He brushes past Eichi to his own locker, fishing out a bottle of glowing blue pills and taking one.]
The androids don't come into this area. Not as far as I can tell. [He glances at him.] And I don't want you running off while I'm not looking.
[Yes, because there's so many places to run to.]