[No, you don't understand. You can't.]

[This was hardly a good conversation for Jade's first day in Luceti. And though there's a part of Ion that feels he should try and make Jade see why that idea is so flawed -- to understand why that would bring no benefit to a replica and only make forming an individual identity that much more painful -- there's also a part of him that wonders if anyone other than another replica would really understand why. After all, without a sense of self and identity to call your own, what else could you ever be but a mere replacement? Living with the knowledge that no matter what happened to you, it didn't matter, because you could be so easily replaced by another...]

...it's fine. [Ion's an easy enough read for Jade to see that he clearly struck a nerve, though Ion's not about to give him time to dwell on it.]

Have you met with any of the others yet? I'm not sure how easily they might trust an anonymous message over the journal...

[And there's at least one person who Ion feels he should say something about if Jade is going to insist on seeing her as well.]