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She shifts her eyes to Nessa, then back to Logan "Why are you still here?"

Logan senses a deepening presence in her gaze Her thoughts are taking clearer form

"Are you…real?"

The question stops him But of course it makes sense that she would ask this It is the most natural question in the world, when one has been alone so long Are you real?

"As real as you are, A the word "I think an and Nessa wait

"Those suits," she says "They’re because ofhe does next Yet he experiences not the slightest hesitation; the act feels ordained He reloves and reaches up to the clasp that holds his helmet in place

"Logan--" Nessa warns

He pulls the helround The taste of fresh air swars with the scents of flowers and the sea

"I think this is much better, don’t you?" he asks

Tears have risen at the corners of the woman’s eyes A look of wonder coan nods

"You’ve cohtless, and alar I’m sorry you have been alone"

A tear spills down her weathered cheek "After all this tian wonders how he knows this, but then the answer comes: his mother’s note "Let her rest" He has always assu of herself But now he understands that the e was for hiaze froather his team and call for a second lifter"

"Why?"

He turns his face to look at her "I need the except a radio Deliver the rateful if you could do that for me, please"