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[vance_prime]

The apparition that has been haunting the bar for the past several days is still present. Those who can sense it directly, however, will notice it's been getting... vague. Its edges are blurred and ill-defined; its interior is murky. However, it is still definitively a Presence, milling restlessly around Milliways in search of something or someone to hold on to.

[ooc: Again, read the back room before tagging. Open for tags until it falls off the page.]

[tinytag: Alyx Vance, Annabelle Newfield]

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[aeons_crackshot]

"I suspect Gordon would say much the same as you," Annabelle says with a laugh of her own.

"You are special, you know. You've been tempered in fire and held fast. You'd follow Gordon into Hell and help him kick the Devil in the teeth if he needed you to, but that's not the most important thing."

Annabelle is very serious when she continues, "You love Gordon Freeman. You don't see the myth, a messiah, when you look at him. You love him for himself, love him enough to cling to existence without your body here at the End of All Things. I don't think there's anyone else in any Universe that could do that."

[vance_prime]

Her memories aren't coming to the surface as readily as before. This one, though, is clear. Standing in the Bar just before returning to their world, trying to calm Gordon's fears about the battle to come...

"You're not 'the One Free Man.' I understand that. But I believe in you. I know you well enough to understand what that really means."

She has nothing to add to that in the here and now. What else is there to say?

[aeons_crackshot]

Annabelle doesn't have anything to add either, so she just smiles.

(OOC: Do you want to fade? Thanks for the thread!)

[vance_prime]

[ooc: Sounds good to me, and thank you!]