230 - A New Hope

[garrett (Bill Garrett)]

It took a bit to find but I found it! This is where my understanding of the recent Alycia-Amir dynamic had come from.

@Dave

I went and chatted with Amir.

You … WHAT?

I know, Sepia!Amir, not – not your Amir. I thought it might be illuminating, though, both what he knew of your counterpart in the Sepiaverse and what he’d been briefed on about you by whomever set him up there.

I … um … how did that go?

Not as well as I’d hoped. He was deeply suspicious of me. Given his background in the Sepiaverse, that’s not surprising, even knowing I must be this universe’s Alycia Chin.

I’m surprised he okayed you onto the island.

…

Jeez. Okay, did you defeat the air defenses, or did you infiltrate the island and wake him in his bed at night, holding a dagger to his throat?

… That’s a dangerous trick, if they jerk awake. Better to sedate them while asleep, then tie them to a chair.

Alycia!

What? Shutting down the air defenses themselves wouldn’t have been difficult, but doing it without your becoming aware of it would have been. And I didn’t hurt him. He never did cooperate, but I didn’t leave any lasting marks or … well, I didn’t torture him. And, yes, I’m including “enhanced interrogation” in that denial.

I – okay.

I did poke around a bit while he was bound – found some interesting papers probably dating back to your tenancy on the island – but when I left him he was alive, well, and slowly kicking the chair across the room to get to the knife I’d left there for him to cut his own bonds.