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"I tried," Father added, hoarse. "Tried to fix it."
Garak swallowed. It was unreasonably difficult to do it. His heart was hammering in his chest; his mind was oddly blank. He felt excruciatingly aware of Julian, unmoving, leaning against the far wall—of the weight of Julian's eyes on him. But he'd told Father they were alone. He could not tell him to stop, could offer him no excuse for failing to respond as he must expect—
"Is that what you were doing," Garak said, very softly.
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"Would it have been real at all, then? If I were the only one in all the universe for whom it had even happened—what a tiny, insignificant thing it would be. How easily erased entirely. Memory can be so unreliable, you know. Perhaps it was always nothing. Perhaps it was only a nightmare I once had," and said that way, in a bright warm tone to test it out—why, it did sound awfully plausible, Garak thought. What a fuss he had made about all this. What a fuss he had made, over nothing—
"No," Julian said. "No, it wasn't. I heard him, Garak. I heard him."