The memory is the only thing that made K special for a week, at least above and beyond his status as a blade runner, as a sort of trial of his kind; it was the only piece of the puzzle that he had and no one else did besides the person who lived it, who couldn't make the connection to the rest of it on her own. K was the only one who could have bridged the gap deliberately.
He nods. "I did. It was obvious, once I knew Rachael had a daughter." Jesus sat quietly with it, and K has come back just a bit from wherever he was, but not entirely. It all still hurts in a way he has no idea if it will ever stop - and here's Jesus beside him showing him that maybe it never will, even if K is comparatively late to how formative that lack of knowing can be.
"I didn't recognize it at the time because I was too distracted with my own narrative, but - the memory maker's name was Ana Stelline. She told me she'd been left behind by her parents when they went off planet because of a genetic disease she needed special equipment to survive, and the colony they went to didn't have the support for it. But when I showed her the memory... she wasn't surprised. She was upset, and guilty. Not the reaction of a top professional in her field discovering the only crime that applies to it, but of a little girl that knows what it is to be isolated through no fault of her own - and who had the means to try to form a connection anyway."
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Date: 2022-12-20 07:59 pm (UTC)He nods. "I did. It was obvious, once I knew Rachael had a daughter." Jesus sat quietly with it, and K has come back just a bit from wherever he was, but not entirely. It all still hurts in a way he has no idea if it will ever stop - and here's Jesus beside him showing him that maybe it never will, even if K is comparatively late to how formative that lack of knowing can be.
"I didn't recognize it at the time because I was too distracted with my own narrative, but - the memory maker's name was Ana Stelline. She told me she'd been left behind by her parents when they went off planet because of a genetic disease she needed special equipment to survive, and the colony they went to didn't have the support for it. But when I showed her the memory... she wasn't surprised. She was upset, and guilty. Not the reaction of a top professional in her field discovering the only crime that applies to it, but of a little girl that knows what it is to be isolated through no fault of her own - and who had the means to try to form a connection anyway."