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Variations on a Recent Theme

Today's entry, I'll admit, is a quick-and-dirty rewrite of "Replacements Three"  but with a new victim. I was pressed for time. But I also must admit to liking the parallel-but-different resemblances between closely related chapters.

This is a commission, and it actually wasn't supposed to take place in this part of the interactive. The idea I was pitched was supposed to go in a very different part of the interactive. But it would have taken many chapters to write my way to the commission's starting point. Two days ago, as I was turning my attention to the commission, I saw a way of getting to the same story (well ... almost the same story) in a shorter and more direct way by putting in here, right next to where we last were: "The Tomboy"  (public) + "The Tomboy"  (interactive). So there's not a lot of background to give to set up what's going on. Instead of picking Andrea Varnsworth as an identity, as he did in the last storyline, in this one Will picks—

Well, you should just click on through.