[Technically they've been with her for her entire life. But in terms of Penance, yes, they're a bit new.]
The Waverly you knew in the ... simulation - she is a part of me. One that I'm sure many people here miss. But ... I am the version they must contend with now.
[It's ... hard to explain, and it's still uncomfortable, how Hellburbia was able to drag that part of Waverly up again. Almost as though they knew that she is the one who could give Barbas what he wanted.]
I only knew her inside, and that wasn't any real version of you...
[Geralt shrugs, uncertainly. He's not sure what to make of it. The daughter he knew, even if she was related to some other version of this woman, was always fake.]
[It's hard to really call Waverly fake, given that she has existed much longer than the angel has. But the angel also has a superiority complex so, you know. There's that.]
It is. Strange, I mean. I feel like I am of two minds, more so than usual.
One is saying that retreating back to who I used to be would be easier. It's clearly the person everyone wants.
[And by everyone she means Wynonna, as she's the only person left that matters beyond this prison. But also she's feeling it with some of her closer friends as well.]
But I deserve to exist too. I do exist. And I am a part that they are going to have to face sooner or later. Retreating would only delay the inevitable.
[She nods, because it isn't that simple for angels. They exist in a constant state of duality. But he's not wrong either, in the sense that this is part of her story now, even if Wynonna does get the sister she wants back.]
[Waverly isn't really sure if that can be said with Wynonna. Perhaps in time, she would come to see the angel as valuable, but she would always want her sister. And why wouldn't she.]
This all would be easier if I was simply allowed to do my duty.
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[Technically they've been with her for her entire life. But in terms of Penance, yes, they're a bit new.]
The Waverly you knew in the ... simulation - she is a part of me. One that I'm sure many people here miss. But ... I am the version they must contend with now.
[It's ... hard to explain, and it's still uncomfortable, how Hellburbia was able to drag that part of Waverly up again. Almost as though they knew that she is the one who could give Barbas what he wanted.]
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[Geralt shrugs, uncertainly. He's not sure what to make of it. The daughter he knew, even if she was related to some other version of this woman, was always fake.]
I'm not exactly who you remember either.
It's a strange thing to live with.
[But they'll all have ti figure out how.]
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It is. Strange, I mean. I feel like I am of two minds, more so than usual.
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[He has the feeling the difference in her case might be more extreme than it is in his.]
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[And by everyone she means Wynonna, as she's the only person left that matters beyond this prison. But also she's feeling it with some of her closer friends as well.]
But I deserve to exist too. I do exist. And I am a part that they are going to have to face sooner or later. Retreating would only delay the inevitable.
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[Easy for him to say. All of this is very outside of the realm of his experience.
But on the other hand, it's not as though Geralt could stop being a Witcher. It's not as though Yennefer could get back the sacrifices she'd made.
Once something's fucked, it's fucked.]
But if you're here, she's still part of you too, isn't she?
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We have always been two halves of the same whole.
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[And he won't pretend he can, or that he understands it. He doesn't know Waverly, whatever he feels.
But that doesn't change what he feels.]
If your friends and family get the two together or neither at all, then it seems like they'd take the two.
[He doesn't figure Waverly needs to be put down. Or maybe he doesn't want to consider that as an option.]
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This all would be easier if I was simply allowed to do my duty.
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