"Why are you telling me this now?" Jack asked, annoyance rising in his voice. "You're using me."
"No, not quite," Elliot said. "I know they cloned you," he added quietly. "The reason I know this is you're not the person that Beth loved." Jack looked at him, wide-eyed.
"What I don't know is if killing the clone that killed Beth released you. I don't know if you're still a clone, or if you're the real Jack. Or if the real Jack was bought, and you're a better clone. What I do know is you're my friend, and I want to get to the bottom of this."
Jack tried to straighten in his chair, wiggling his butt slightly, and was startled to find his hands tied between his legs, in manacles.
"If you're a clone," Elliot continued languidly, "and not on 'my side', then Naire will know and he'll try to crack the code. Which is fine by me, because I know he'll never succeed. If you're a friend, and you've somehow broken your programming," he continued, "then you'll eventually remember what happened to Beth, and for that information I'm willing to let you go, at the commune, instead of putting you in the tank of the town before it."
They were passing a sign.
Paradise, 14km
Heaven's edge, 11km
Jack swallowed, "Elliot, you're crazy..." he began.
"I'm not. There's also a third option..."
"What's that?"
"You're the real Jack. And then we discover what exactly happened," Elliot said grimly. "Till then though, your only chance of survival - if you're planning to do anything stupid - is to work with me. My friend would, and if you're a clone of him, you should at least sense that. Stand or fall, my friend."
Paradise – Summer 2019
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