[It's hardly the first time Takeshi's had a dead man speaking to him again within twenty-four hours. He shouldn't be shocked, set off balance by it, but clearly a part of him had absorbed the routine of resurrection here. Understood and accepted the long weeks he would have between seeing Stephen's life fade and meeting him again.
The relief isn't enough to wash away the guilt, the tangled knot of it that Stephen's death has wrenched to the surface. But pragmatism can drown both, to look at the anomaly of this occurrence and ask:]
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The relief isn't enough to wash away the guilt, the tangled knot of it that Stephen's death has wrenched to the surface. But pragmatism can drown both, to look at the anomaly of this occurrence and ask:]
Special treatment?