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Card #c262IR // #c262Synthesis

Grant gently puts a hand on her shoulder and tells Marigold directly, “There is a chance the man whose life you have already lived was supposed to catch a murderer.

— In our words · Source: Simultaneous (Eric Heisserer)

[Use when]

Use when past-life material needs a crime stake in one sentence.

[Why it matters]

Reincarnation with a case file: past-life material gets stakes when it inherits an unsolved crime.

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