O-oh yeah, fine! Fine! I just, uh... mis... took you for someone else?
[ Ohhhh, this is bad. Doreen is, unfortunately, still awful at lying, and genuinely has no idea what to do here. God, the Alliance should have some kind of emergency help line that she could call, just so she could ask 'hey, is trying to snap someone out of an objectively happier and healthier alternate reality the right thing to do, or should you back off and let them enjoy it while they can?" How do you even approach that? 'What's up, everything you know is wrong, and also how do you feel about robot tentacle-arms?' ]
I thought you were one of my professors, and I have a late assignment due, and... and I just realized they put meat in my wrap, and I'm vegetarian so that's actually a really big deal!
[ That last bit, at least, is genuine, and she sounds genuinely affronted! ]
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O-oh yeah, fine! Fine! I just, uh... mis... took you for someone else?
[ Ohhhh, this is bad. Doreen is, unfortunately, still awful at lying, and genuinely has no idea what to do here. God, the Alliance should have some kind of emergency help line that she could call, just so she could ask 'hey, is trying to snap someone out of an objectively happier and healthier alternate reality the right thing to do, or should you back off and let them enjoy it while they can?" How do you even approach that? 'What's up, everything you know is wrong, and also how do you feel about robot tentacle-arms?' ]
I thought you were one of my professors, and I have a late assignment due, and... and I just realized they put meat in my wrap, and I'm vegetarian so that's actually a really big deal!
[ That last bit, at least, is genuine, and she sounds genuinely affronted! ]