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[He braids it further, stopping to let Cibo feel her hair before continuing.]

No. Not strange at all. [He moves his head closer and mutters closer to her ear.] It's nice.

[ Her head turns briefly to see his closeness. Though she doesn't flinch, she becomes visibly uncomfortable in a way that only would be strange to Cibo and nothing to anyone else; her eyes quickly leave contact with AM's while her fingers hastily reach the end of the braid to release it back to him. ]

I'm glad.

[He's unsure if his gesture has made her uncomfortable or not, if even she's aware of her discomfort. Even if the discomfort isn't visible or if she's not aware, he knows it's still there, and that's what he enjoys: the little games he plays.

He finishes plaiting her hair and lets the braid fall down her back. He leans back then to evaluate how it looks.]

Mm... Never seen you with your hair back. I like it.

It feels a little lighter.

[ If not a little more exposed. She can feel air on the ports of her neck as she shifts her hair just over her shoulder to examine it more delicately with her fingers. It's loose, but at least it's out of the way of where it normally sits. ]

I think I like it too. I'll just have to learn how to do it myself...

[AM doesn't miss the exposed ports of her neck, the very ones that he had shocked with electricity to reset her memory, to make her completely loyal to him.

He lifts a hand to touch one of the ports, but then decides against it.]

It's not difficult. Just practice when you have a chance.

[Like when you stay up for four hours waiting for AM to wake up.]

[ Perhaps there might even be some permanent broken vessels back there on that particular port or something — maybe light bruising that hasn't faded after the time passed — but Cibo can't feel anything. All she feels it a sort of ache if she sleeps wrong. ]

It will be more fun than walking the halls or spending time in the labs while everyone sleeps. Sometimes I dream of that too... It's strange to me, but memories in dreams are still only dreams, right?

Ah yes, you have so much more time to yourself than most humans do.

[She's lucky in a way. That's one thing AM hates about this body; the amount of sleep he needs.]

Dreams are rarely memories of things that have happened, my dear.

[He has a feeling he knows what she's talking about. He has to convince her.]

Your mind can create environments and scenarios to play out your innermost desires and conflicts.

But I dream of the City, AM. There are strange things there, but it's still the City.

[ As much as she denied returning to the City, Cibo couldn't ignore the small desire to once more search for the Net Terminal Gene with Killy. To save her reality and destroy the Safeguard once and for all. To have full access to the information of the world...

Maybe her dreams were only reminding her that the place existed. And for whatever reason, she could never escape it as entirely as she wanted. ]

They are not nightmares but I don't want to dream of it anymore...

You can dream of familiar environments, can dream of memories...

But they are rarely true memories. It's just your mind processing the information it has.

[And it annoys him slightly that Cibo still doesn't understand how dreams work. He wishes he could explain them because he knows that she probably dreams of his Other World. She can't know that what happened was real.

He looks at her, red eyes studying her face, his mouth almost in a scowl.]

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I fear that I am being a self-insert in this log

and that is totally acceptable in this situation

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spoilers: I'm really bad at braiding my own hair

my hair isn't long enough yet :c

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