"Remember when I held that part of you, Lynn? That part you wanted to just.. throw away? Remember what we saw together in the mirror...?"

"Sometimes I do... it's still unpleasant after all these years..."

"Well.. I'm.. happy we don't see that anymore when we look at the mirror together. I'm happy that... we see more hopeful things in it when we look together... I'm happy that you listened to my pleas in not throwing it away..."

"And I'm.. surprised it worked out. In my stubbornness I still think I could've rebuilt what I was about to discard.."

"But you'd leave me wondering even more if you were still the woman I married so long ago if you did that.... You'd leave me wondering if you were the same one I shared my life with..."

"Even if are minds were so thoroughly linked?"

"Even if that was so..."

There's a kink piece tied to this, of Artemisia holding Lynn's biomass. Fat sad harpy holding out hope that Lynn hivemind would revive the corpse she was fed. Her hope lead to the creation of IO.