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Machine's watching you now. Onto you.

For fuck's sake. Leave these people to their madnesses.

There's no such thing as luck.

Luck is the most important tool you have.

A joke. They don't care about 'winning'.

Portofiro has been like this since before they were born. They can't remember a different world -- but the song brings it to them.

PLAY IT. IF THE BOMB GOES OFF THEN OPT NOT TO DIE.

A song that would have blown Sweet Nestor to pieces had he not changed his plans.

OVERTURES ARE BOURGEOIS.

You hear the clear sound of a drum from upstairs. Something replied.

See how focused they are on their task? Melita wouldn't have to use her disappointed voice if you were like that.

Born into decay, they will always be drawn to it.

Wagging its tail.

Not dead enough.

Has to be a rational explanation, there's a source in here somewhere.

That pen has been rejected for a reason. That much fancier pen of yours will do a much better job.

This came out of nowhere, but stick with it. Do not get distracted by, say, a strange crack in the floor.

The smell of cola floats through the open crack in the window. A passing aero-tram hums above, unseen.

In a nearby office, a middle-aged woman lifts her glasses, focusing on a younger person sat behind a large desk. The woman's insides burn with a malice that is realised as rhyming couplets pieced together in her head.

The fact that none of your dreams can be remembered is a sign of fragmented sleep.

DEMILITARISATION. FORTIFICATION.

What can't be forged: The surge of all-engulfing sadness you feel as your hand rests on the page.

Become the cauldron in which boils the means to your transmogrification.

You recognise the name on the disc -- Eloísa Alba -- from the 'Weaponised Boredom' section of Petre's music stall. In other words: 'free jazz'.

Each Portofiran youth a potential cultural assassin-in-waiting.

Morally good. Practically moronic.

A smell of fresh plastic and aluminium coating, still contained within the transparent hemisphere, rises to your nostrils.

The ghost of new music.

Beyond the auditorium doors, you hear whispers from the waiting crowd.

Not her business, not her problem.

What was never there can never leave.

That shrug was a little stiff. He's her type.

You see the glint of a silver medallion around her neck as she moves to give you a view of the selection behind the bar.

Not only is this woman not in your class -- she's not even in your field.

It is, but only in the saddest, most mundane of ways.

Like a rock struck by lightning, she remains solid though her molecular structure has been altered.

The ancient huntress raises her hand to the troupe behind her, stop. She felt the soil move, bouncing with the force of a megaloballer's gait. A meat they dare not hunt.

Stirring just a little at your touch.

Rising and contracting gently with the long breaths of sleep.

PSEUDOPOD may be a drooling carapace, but there are two operants deep within it. Something has drawn him to this man.

Claim him, get gäng out of here.

'Luz, Luz, Luz'.

Operant PSEUDOPOD seems to have forgotten about the assignment.

He's gone totally off script.

Whatever makes him weep, it's not from the past year -- it runs much deeper.

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