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[There's something he should've told Rey a long time ago but somehow never quite got around to it. Or never figured out a way to make it sound not bizarre. It hadn't seemed like too big a thing before, but now he suddenly just feels bad about it. He has to say something.]

Hey, I’ve got somethin’ to tell you. It’s, ah, gonna sound pretty weird, but… just try and hear me out, okay?

Everyone else here seems to be in a sharing mood, so sure. Why not.

First off, do you know about a place called the AUC? Or a lady who calls herself Fiona?

[God, he can't hold it back any longer. He has to say.]

...I think I dreamed about you. N-not in a weird way! I-I mean, yeah, it'd be weird no matter what, b-but not like that. You were in a box and then we broke out and then we were on a train.

Yes, I remember. It's okay.

[She doesn't sound like her usual "Rey" self, which might help connect the dots even more for Firo between Fiona and Rey.]

Sorry for not coming to you sooner about it. I wasn't sure if you would even figure it out.

You--? Oh.

[It’s okay? Really? Well, he shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Relieved, he tries to speak quickly to get away from any weirdness.]

I wasn’t even sure I was right, but… The face looked pretty much the same, even without the scars. So that was you? You used to go by that name?

Only by my mother. My father stopped calling me that.

When you changed your name? Why'd you change it, anyway?

Wasn't the one who changed it. Someone else did, probably to keep my father and the rest of the AUC from knowing that I was even alive.

...What? Why?

[Was this person hiding her to help her or hurt her? Despite his personal ideals about family, Firo knows that not every father is a good one--maybe hers was worth hiding from. Or maybe not--maybe she was kidnapped.]

This got anything to do with the escape? Was that real?

[Minus him, obviously, but she'd mentioned another guy...]

Because they all wanted me dead, and suppose death wasn't even good enough for me.

[No, she had to spend decades being punished over and over as women who mostly had no idea what they were even being punished for.]

The escape was real. How it happened went very differently, though. You... probably wouldn't like the details.

You think I'm squeamish or somethin'?

No, it isn't that. I'm just saying... it wasn't a very happy outcome.

[Considering all that effort Firo went through for Fiona, she simply assumes that he'd rather not hear about her fate.]

So what happened? You’re still alive.

[That’s already a comfort of sorts. Not knowing definitely isn’t.]

That would depend on your definition of "alive".

Fiona isn't alive, neither are all of the other woman whose memories are inside my head. I'm just... I don't know what I am.

[Rather, "who". It isn't a thought that she mulls over very much, but it's been bothering her again lately.]

Wait, what?

[At least from what little she’s said already, it smacks of what he has going on with Szilard. Rey’s face doesn’t show up anywhere in the memories of other immortals, but that doesn’t necessarily rule her out as one.]

So then what happened to her?

[It’s a little more easy to digest than asking how Rey came by all those memories.]

Her termination was faked by another synthetic so that he could extract her. Her wrote over her initial programming, giving her a new personality, memories. A new identity.

[Doesn't sound so bad, right?]

...Can you say any of that in dumber words?

[Extracting someone sounds bad.]

[Rey sighs. Even when she thinks she isn't using complex vocabulary, she remembers who she's talking to. Not because of Firo's intelligence, but her jargon would probably fly over the heads of a lot of people from the time he's from.]

Fiona was a synthetic created to look like-human. However, upon her creation she'd developed an unstable nature that made her a volatile... well, a risk. To others and to herself. So the only logical course of action was to kill her program.

My mother tried to stop this from happening the first time. Fiona escaped, but the effort ended up costing many lives.

She was found after murdering the researcher who had... um, taken her out the first time.

[Judging by the dream, she hopes that Firo can put two and two together without her having to explain the details.]

Anyway, she was scheduled to be executed after that. Because it wasn't worth wasting the effort on damaged goods.

Not even a trial, huh? Usually they at least pretend to give everybody a fair shake.

[That might explain a bit about why her version of 'death row' looked so bizarre. Because it wasn't.]

But she didn't get killed, I'm gonna guess.

Of course not. They wouldn't give a trial to property. Human rights are generally reserved for humans.

[Harsh, but true.]

No. She got out, but it wasn't much better.

Hmph. Pretty shitty of them to act like she wasn't one, but that's people for you.

[They do what they can get away with, and it's plenty easy to get away with things against people who "aren't normal" or however they'd choose to put it.]

Why not? Where'd she end up?

Well, she wasn't. She was more machine than a person.

[Harsh, but true in Rey's opinion, considering who Fiona was to her.]

Her mind was wiped and she became someone else, without any knowledge of what had happened to her in the AUC, or what she really was.

So she just started over? What else was she gonna do anyway?

[Most people condemned to death have a worse outcome.]

Obviously there's more, though.

[Come on, Rey. Cough it up.]

Someone else -- another creation of the AUC -- had found a use for her. Because he didn't see death a fitting end for her, he sought to punish her instead by imprinting her with one personality after another, sending her off to die over and over for several decades as different people. Though perhaps it wasn't punishment so much as he wanted to see her killed and suffer, while never being fully aware of it.

[Like she said, Firo. The details aren't much happier than Fiona's previous situation.]

[That's... creative. What happened to just dumping people in the river?]

What exactly did he have against her? Sounds like a lotta trouble to go through for revenge unless it was something big.

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