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"Right." The girl took a seat facing them and bit her bottom lip, thinking of what to say. "So, story time I guess? Five years ago, Russia was bombed by the Aschen in an attempt to get Terra to do something." She shrugged not really understanding that. "The Alexeev family was home that day. Every member died, Mama, Papa, and Nadya." The girl shrugged. "But Nadya was important. The fate's needed her alive, for whatever reason. She wasn't supposed to die."

The girl managed a smile. "Two years ago, Hope Khon, an erutin, died in her sleep." The girl smiled. "Once she died, I returned to my ship. It's a space ship, and it's also my home, my real home. For a long time, space was a safe place for us to leave, me and my coworkers. Now, it's trickier, but space is big. Really big. So it's still safer than being planetside." They girl looked uncertain. "Hope Khon, on the ship, became Nadya Alexeev. And then I went back and I was found in the rubble. Instead of dying, I watched my parents die, and I was rescued. And now, until the Bosses are done with Nadya, I am Nadya. I have all her memories, and mostly...mostly I am only her. I'm not supposed to remember being anyone or anything else, until I need to go become someone else, or I die." The girl looked to them both, uncertain. "Um, does this make sense? So far?" There was more. There was obviously more.