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This has to be Reno's pied-a-terre. He's one of the only people in Portofiro who could afford this kind of luxury.

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Look, his hair's a bigger catastrophe than usual -- he just stuck his head out of the window.

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Wow. An under pressure phase. He really pulled it off, right when it mattered.

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She knew you had it on you, and was looking for one thing only.

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Perhaps an avid Einzeltone collector?

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Drink from the ancient spring of stoned teenage philosophising.

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There exist brick walls with more awareness than him.

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Liquidity far beyond your current state of matter.

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A different type of magic.

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No different to the beasts that wander the wilds.

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His mind was busy doing something else.

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Company scrip. Funny money.

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A tell. You didn't make any connection between Tempo and Reyes.

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Or they're Constanz's: Another manifestation of the murky impulse that got her mixed up with your people in the first place.

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One of the perks of being the top of the social hierarchy: time becomes a suggestion, not a reality.

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Hold up! Timing is too clear cut. She sabotaged the release by disappearing.

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That's a word he learned very recently.

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Twenty-six bones and no major blood vessels. She should be thanking you.

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The final stage of colonisation -- the oppressed become strange parodies of the people that colonised them.

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Better for everyone that you just take him at his word. The alternative... well, there's a recently vacated room at the bottom of a silo, if you're interested.

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Hold on. Monoaxial... Hermetic... this is literally just him. Your old bandmate's gone and tried his hand at a solo career.

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Questions that some would attribute to life's meaning.

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Who is Hershel Wilk? What is techno-fascism? Is squirt piss?

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You ran right into that one.

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A possible rendezvous. Actionable intelligence.

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Mind reading level: Tutorial.

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Alright, that's got to be the last step.

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He dismisses it with that special bitterness reserved for smothering dreams that hurt.

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Into the dustbin it goes.

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The most important history is the one that never makes it into the books, but defines how those books are written -- or aren't.

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Dante... could it have been... Tempo's message... all will be forgiven... if you pull this off...

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Dopamine, adrenaline, DMT, endorphins of every flavour and hue.

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In spite of you, the conclusion slips into its natural niche -- common sense, inevitable in retrospect.

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Circuits in your brain spark violently as they rebel against their own conclusions.

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It makes no sense -- Melita wouldn't have you jumping through hoops to obtain the Lich's itinerary if she had a direct line to the Weeping Eye. And yet...

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In spite of you, the knowledge slips into its natural niche in your brain -- common sense, inevitable in retrospect.

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In spite of you, the knowledge slips into its natural niche in your brain -- obvious, inevitable.

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This is a reality television show. The plot is too complex -- the writers must be high on their own ad revenue cash.

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Nice try. He doesn't realise that you know better than he does the fate of his body double.

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Frail attempts to find importance in what is an inherently meaningless and chaotic existence.