Hidden Mall 51: Apart

[aldersprig]

Abby stared at Liv.  She could hear the other two stirring.  She flinched, despite herself; she couldn’t play nasty with one Liv and expect the other two not to take it personally - since it was personal, wasn’t it?

“I haven’t even met another Abby.”  That was probably the wrong thing to say.  “I’ve seen one dead-”

That was definitely the wrong thing to say. “Well, of course you have! Since you want them all dead - tell me, do you even know why?  So you can be the One True Abby? It never made any sense to me. But I did figure out that I didn’t mean anything to you. Nothing.” She sneered.  Even though this was a strange Liv, Abby could tell that she was hurting. “I figured that much out before you ditched me here.”

“She’s not your Abby.”  The voice came from somewhere behind this angry Liv.  “You have to remember that. She’s not my Abby, either.  So she’s not dead, and she didn’t ditch you anywhere. Yet,” she added tiredly.  “She does have this habit of going into situations that can get her killed - but we’re in the Mall. Anything can get her killed.”

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Comments

[sauergeek]

Angry Liv doesn't seem to quite understand that there are variations — however small — between the various instances of each person in this whole mess. It's seemed like the Vic-Abby rivalry/hatred is a fairly constant thing, but which of Abby or Vic has Liv as a friend is not. That suggests personality changes in at least one and possibly all three of them. I have to think that this particular Liv was friends with a borderline Abby, one where another tiny change and Liv would've ended up friends with Vic instead.

But I expect we'll see...