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She closed the laptop.

The WEB-DL watermark shimmered, then dissolved into the opening credits. The theme song—the Skye Boat Song —warped and modern, filled the room. She did not cry. She had used up her tears on the actual, non-720p version of those events. outlander s02e06 720p web h264

On screen, Jamie’s face was the color of old milk. Sweat filmed his brow. The H.264 compression handled the shadows poorly—blocky artifacts gathered in the hollows of his cheeks—but it could not hide the terror in her own eyes. She watched Claire (the actress, not herself) slice open Jamie’s leg. Watched the pus and the 720p-pixelated blood. Watched her own hands, steady on screen, shake in memory. She closed the laptop

It was, after all, the best laid scheme she had left. She did not cry

“That’s not how it happened,” she muttered to the empty flat. “I was wearing the green gown. And there was a dead rat in the gutter.”

She poured a glass of wine, reopened the laptop, and watched the episode again. And again, when Jamie opened his eyes at the end and said her name, she let the fake tear fall.

The first scene: Paris. Recreated. Wrong. The cobblestones were too clean, the whores too picturesque. She watched herself—a younger, fiercer version with bigger hair and a smaller sense of dread—argue with Jamie about Bonnie Prince Charlie.