"Did you even think about what I might go through? Waking up in a world where you were dead? Living with your ghost for two months?"
"I didn't know it would take me this long to lock onto your signature. The multiverse is infinite. Finding one specific person across infinite realities..." She trailed off. "I'm sorry. I am. But I had to know."
"You had to know if your machine worked. You didn't care what it cost me."
"That's not fair."
"Isn't it? You made the choice, Nina. You pressed the button. And I spent two months grieving you, falling for a woman who wore your face, building a life I'd have to abandon."
"Did you love her? Mira?"
The question hung in the air.
"I don't know. I think I was trying to love you through her. Trying to hold onto something I'd lost."