Jade's hands still over the doll as he looks back up at Natsuno, the remark processing and the question springing forth quite promptly in mind. --Because that always has been the sticking point of it all, hasn't it? When an original and a copy are functionally the same, such things surely become irrelevant...in theory. And yet.
Inadvertently, of course, it just makes him think of Luke--prompting something quiet and sinking and sad, somewhere in the chest, as it always seems to. Luke, perhaps, would have the words for a proper answer to such a question--would have the full right to dictate it, really. But Luke isn't here--Luke will never be anywhere, ever again, and shouldn't be.
Not that Natsuno would know. Why would he? No, the puzzled look on his face and the utter offhand nature of the remark are entirely normal things, considering the context he has to work with on his own end...and Jade can't find it in himself to offer any more, here and now. Considering where that whole line of discussion would inevitably lead...
--Ah. He doesn't realize it until he's promptly putting an expression back on, in the form of the slight and idly amused sort of smile he offers Natsuno's way at length--but Jade's face sure had started slipping back into that earlier blankness again, for just a moment there, as his thoughts had quite visibly wandered elsewhere. But now--]
...No, I suppose it doesn't really matter, does it? At least for our purposes here and now.
[No, it only matters...in a personal sort of way. In this particular case--quite setting aside the whole other moral quandary of replicas and the relevance of their origins overall. Whether or not this doll is indeed the first replica he ever made...isn't anything important, not really. Won't tell them anything helpful about the trends of these packages. Won't help them find a way off this ship, in any way. ...But it will continue to nag at Jade's thoughts all the same, until he finally does discreetly bring the doll over to Palamedes at some point a couple of days from now...
With a slight shrug of his shoulders, Jade occupies himself with reaching back over for the small box the doll had arrived in.]
--There were a handful of these made. The local toy shop always was more of a crafts affair...so, one could say they were as popular as anything could be, in a very small and remote sort of town. [Not mass produced to say the least. (--He could have just bought Nephry a new one, he really could have. Everyone always did call Jade a very strange child for a reason...but of course, he's not about to elaborate on that particular semantic at the moment here.)] Still, I suppose these things coming directly from other places sits about on par with our own presences on this ship. The method must be the same, as whatever the captain utilized to bring us here. I really do wonder if these items are intentional picks or not...the timing of their arrival doesn't seem particularly routine. To say nothing of the contents...little consistency all around.
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Jade's hands still over the doll as he looks back up at Natsuno, the remark processing and the question springing forth quite promptly in mind. --Because that always has been the sticking point of it all, hasn't it? When an original and a copy are functionally the same, such things surely become irrelevant...in theory. And yet.
Inadvertently, of course, it just makes him think of Luke--prompting something quiet and sinking and sad, somewhere in the chest, as it always seems to. Luke, perhaps, would have the words for a proper answer to such a question--would have the full right to dictate it, really. But Luke isn't here--Luke will never be anywhere, ever again, and shouldn't be.
Not that Natsuno would know. Why would he? No, the puzzled look on his face and the utter offhand nature of the remark are entirely normal things, considering the context he has to work with on his own end...and Jade can't find it in himself to offer any more, here and now. Considering where that whole line of discussion would inevitably lead...
--Ah. He doesn't realize it until he's promptly putting an expression back on, in the form of the slight and idly amused sort of smile he offers Natsuno's way at length--but Jade's face sure had started slipping back into that earlier blankness again, for just a moment there, as his thoughts had quite visibly wandered elsewhere. But now--]
...No, I suppose it doesn't really matter, does it? At least for our purposes here and now.
[No, it only matters...in a personal sort of way. In this particular case--quite setting aside the whole other moral quandary of replicas and the relevance of their origins overall. Whether or not this doll is indeed the first replica he ever made...isn't anything important, not really. Won't tell them anything helpful about the trends of these packages. Won't help them find a way off this ship, in any way. ...But it will continue to nag at Jade's thoughts all the same, until he finally does discreetly bring the doll over to Palamedes at some point a couple of days from now...
With a slight shrug of his shoulders, Jade occupies himself with reaching back over for the small box the doll had arrived in.]
--There were a handful of these made. The local toy shop always was more of a crafts affair...so, one could say they were as popular as anything could be, in a very small and remote sort of town. [Not mass produced to say the least. (--He could have just bought Nephry a new one, he really could have. Everyone always did call Jade a very strange child for a reason...but of course, he's not about to elaborate on that particular semantic at the moment here.)] Still, I suppose these things coming directly from other places sits about on par with our own presences on this ship. The method must be the same, as whatever the captain utilized to bring us here. I really do wonder if these items are intentional picks or not...the timing of their arrival doesn't seem particularly routine. To say nothing of the contents...little consistency all around.