It's so absurd an idea that the words on first pass don't sink in at all. How can he not be real? What part of him is missing? He has his thoughts, his memories, all the physical manifestation he's had for this long...
These holograms appear to be loved ones, the article says, and while some know they are mere images, most of them appear unaware.
It talks about how accurate they are. How the only way to know, thus far, is to ask them what their first memory of Riverview is. If they remember coming through the portal.
Kravitz has known a lot of portals, a lot of different ways to get between planes, between dimensions. He'd simply assumed that this didn't happen to be a visible rift in a tangible place. Apparently it is. And apparently that means that... that he's just... light, in the shape of himself, with an artificial imprint of the memories and emotions of which the 'real' version, who never left home, holds the originals.
Silent, he hands back the phone. What point is there in reading further? ]
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It's so absurd an idea that the words on first pass don't sink in at all. How can he not be real? What part of him is missing? He has his thoughts, his memories, all the physical manifestation he's had for this long...
These holograms appear to be loved ones, the article says, and while some know they are mere images, most of them appear unaware.
It talks about how accurate they are. How the only way to know, thus far, is to ask them what their first memory of Riverview is. If they remember coming through the portal.
Kravitz has known a lot of portals, a lot of different ways to get between planes, between dimensions. He'd simply assumed that this didn't happen to be a visible rift in a tangible place. Apparently it is. And apparently that means that... that he's just... light, in the shape of himself, with an artificial imprint of the memories and emotions of which the 'real' version, who never left home, holds the originals.
Silent, he hands back the phone. What point is there in reading further? ]
I... I don't understand. How can...