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@JaguarAvatar Lena gathered the papers and files, trying not to breath while she handed them to Ivette. "Would you mind? We need to keep looking." She covered her nose with her sleeve again. "There's more here."

@JaguarAvatar Lena remained poised as she read through them, but her expression betrayed her anger. It seemed she got easily emotionally overwhelmed when it came to Clementine.

@JaguarAvatar Lena covered her nose with her sleeve and walked over to the desk, using her free hand to look through some of the papers and folders on the desk. "Do you have a flashlight?" Lena asked. While she was seeing alright with the limited lighting, reading was another matter.

@JaguarAvatar Lena nodded once, then stepped towards the room, her eyes scanning their surroundings carefully.

@JaguarAvatar @SteelKon Lena put her hand on Conner's shoulder, then stepped towards Ivette. She was ready to continue.

She looked towards the mannequins, her voice taking on more emotion. "... I'm going to help you, Clementine. I'll be back."

Even if they weren't fully her, or possibly even […]

@SteelKon @JaguarAvatar "Have Conner help you. Be as precise as possible, just in case."

@SteelKon @JaguarAvatar "I was thinking the same. About Clem." She put the USB in his hand and closed his fingers around it. "Don't lose this. Get it out of here. Remember, I have the device to call you. Go."

@SteelKon @JaguarAvatar -- a very good fighter without it."

@SteelKon @JaguarAvatar "... Do you think he transferred his consciousness into another body? Or maybe just... Killed himself? Do they have more of them?" She took the USB from the computer.

"... I'm concerned he's done something to the... Clems..." She didn't like the sound of that. "We need […]

@SteelKon @JaguarAvatar "Clem wouldn't want you to hurt him too badly," Lena said, and looked at the 'mannequins'. She had a regretful look in her eyes. "She has a compassionate heart."

@SteelKon @JaguarAvatar Lena had caught that too. She glanced at how much more information had downloaded. She had a feeling he was stalling.

@SteelKon @JaguarAvatar "Fuck you!" Lena spat, losing her temper. "I was right about you. You can't love someone if you can't learn to accept their flaws. Clem is perfect the way she is. She *is* a success. What you want is a robot. Clem isn't that; she's a person. She isn't a thing you can own […]

@hidewithin.bsky.social ... Seems like they've got some things to catch up on.

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"... To bring his daughter back from the dead." Lena looked towards the computer slowly. She still has tears running down her cheeks, but her expression was held together. "... But it was just an experiment to you, wasn't it? You wanted to see if you could... Because […]

@SteelKon @JaguarAvatar *iLena*. They were talking about iLena. She changed everything simply by existing. She thought of her, of all the clones of herself that weren't viable because Lex wanted them so be human so desperately. She thought of all the dead clones she'd seen in his files […]

@SteelKon @JaguarAvatar Lena's hands turned to fists at her sides and her body began to tremble with anger, tears still running down her face.

"... You copied her... Why?!" Lena demanded. "What did you do to her?!"

@SteelKon @JaguarAvatar Lena looked horrified, but remained still as they came towards her, a tear escaping from her eye. She seemed to be fighting the instinct to run away.

"... Clementine, is that you?" Lena asked in a small, broken voice.