“Why would I do that?  I want you to deal with the Nine.  You killed Burnscar, didn’t you?  If you dealt with Siberian, life would be a lot easier for me.”

Oh yeah, that’s true. If she tried to escape, Siberian would be the greatest threat.

“So we’re right?”  Lisa leaned forward.  “There’s a weakness.  She has a real body somewhere?”

“She does.  Right now it’s actually not too far from you.”

…and I quote:

“What, you mean something like Siberian being here?  ‘Don’t you wish you’d asked me to tell you where she was, because she’s standing fifteen feet away from you’?” Alec asked.  “Yeah, that sounds like my sister.”

Pfft.

Fifteen feet away.  I remembered Alec’s joke.

Yup! Looks like he wasn’t far off!

“Near that hole the Endbringer made,” Cherish said.  “Both of them, the real Siberian and the body.”

Wait… which is which?

I suppose “the real Siberian”, to Cherish, is the monochrome duplicate.

“You know what she looks like?”

“He.  A man.  Middle aged or older.  Unkempt.  Doesn’t eat much, probably thin.”

Huh.

So is Siberian trans or something, then? Is the duplicate designable (possibly female to throw off suspicion), or an extension of their idea of themself?

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