...I don't remember anything else happening. The replica had second-order hyperresonance after that, though, and I couldn't use it at all. It happened here, almost two years ago. I got back my hyperresonance recently, too, and I've been fine since it all happened.

[There's that ever-present "but" on the tip of his tongue, though he won't say it. He doesn't want to go through all of that again, yet he's afraid that the cycle will repeat just because... well. Life hates him.]