Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20130812010713/@comment-6986530-20140526034359

Creative license aside, that segment where they're introducing each other seems to take place in a flashback of sorts, anyway. It's introducing all the Project Ma candidates (albeit not in a way that anyone would introduce them in-story,) which presumably would have been done before they all started to kill each other.

As for Kiril's monologue--I feel at the very least he is not trying to say "she was different from anyone else in the world," at least because if she was so different it would probably occur to him that, unless people with HER had become the norm by that point (which is possible, I suppose.)

I'm not sure I'm understanding what the contradiction is for speculating that Kiril meant "she was different from us HERs." This is him looking back on the event, "She was different from the rest of us HERs, so I thought she wasn't an HER. Turns out she was an HER." Of course this is speculation and I might have misunderstood something, since Kiril could be referring to multiple groups here--but his mention of "She was not like an HER" seems to me to be a repetition of "that child was different from us."

It could also be that Kiril knew she was one, or at risk for having it (666 E) and just thought she wouldn't develop the maniacal murdering aspect of the condition. In which case "us" could be "people at risk."

As for that implying that Kiril is acknowledging he's an HER, I would think that hindsight is 20/20 :P He just lost his fiancee after all. "In retrospect that might not have been the ghost of my dead lover after all."