[There are ways that Heather can frequently be dishonest, but she's not one for telling tall tales. ... Or at least not ones that are intended for people to actually believe, anyway.]
'Course I'm real. This isn't one of those Shyamalan movies where the twist ending is that I was a figment of your imagination all along, y'know.
[She flashes him a cheeky grin at that, but then sobers up again.]
What I mean is, my existence... it can't be proved by science. It has nothing to do with science.
If your average laws of reality were rigid and unbreakable... I wouldn't be standing in front of you.
[She'd be a charred corpse buried under the wreckage of a ruined building out in the boonies.]
[Of course, now that she's gotten that out of the way, she can't just leave it at that. Now she actually has to explain something to him. And decide WHAT and HOW MUCH she wants to explain. It's information she once trusted Otacon with, but that was years ago.]
[It's literally been years since she's told anybody about her past.]
... Look, maybe we should sit down before I tell you more.
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'Course I'm real. This isn't one of those Shyamalan movies where the twist ending is that I was a figment of your imagination all along, y'know.
[She flashes him a cheeky grin at that, but then sobers up again.]
What I mean is, my existence... it can't be proved by science. It has nothing to do with science.
If your average laws of reality were rigid and unbreakable... I wouldn't be standing in front of you.
[She'd be a charred corpse buried under the wreckage of a ruined building out in the boonies.]
[Of course, now that she's gotten that out of the way, she can't just leave it at that. Now she actually has to explain something to him. And decide WHAT and HOW MUCH she wants to explain. It's information she once trusted Otacon with, but that was years ago.]
[It's literally been years since she's told anybody about her past.]
... Look, maybe we should sit down before I tell you more.