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Impenetrable. The bag might be constricting the flow of blood to his head.

No point in attempting to refute him. His worldview is a perpetual motion device, where denial only becomes further proof of your compromise.

It strikes you, a few moments late, that you really shouldn't be showing your face on live television.

Assumption: Straniak 1) Hand-picked those substances. 2) Did not partake.

Bet the tech hangover is making them vivid.

A psychological barrier. You will only be able to slip past it by lowering the mind's defenses as in hypnosis or sleep.

Most wars are just as futile.

His own febrile logic has turned in on itself. He'll believe anything you tell him now.

Can you be sure this is really your mind and not some psychic fabrication of hers?

And then they'll probably turn around and add even more wolves.

A neurological affliction from the chemicals in the dye. Progressive. Irreversible.

There is no endgame. There is only a pulse, a drive towards something unattainable.

Everyone occupying one fixed and immovable place on the pyramid of life.

Fool him with his own systems. Bridle his hypertrophied imagination -- the outcome will be the same.

Dear god, it's trying to talk to you.

Light years stand between you and the star -- your hunt will be long over by the time this invocation reaches it.

What could possibly happen?

Suddenly you realize the eight displacements you have found are all of them: an eight letter keyword that encodes the cipher in cycles: E S C H A T O N.

Three in 145 character-pairs is 2%, which corresponds to the frequency for the most common bigrams in the regular alphabet -- TH, HE, and IN.

He's had to fix his former colleague's mess more than once.

Translation: At the back of another life somewhere.

An abomination by every possible measure.

He's braindead, Hershel. No trousers.

He's not going to move. He has no mind.

Could have guessed. Quite easily.

There's nothing in there. You cannot count on 'nothing'.

His 'department'? Press this.

As a member of the Guardia Municipal, it's unlikely he can openly talk about a bootlegger.

EMTERR is all business, all the time. Lots of money to be made from people taken against their will.

A single data point is noise. But more could suggest a pattern.

He'd have to know about any official movements on his patch. He's testing you.

Looks like she's in REM sleep -- where the brain is most active, where it dreams. But she's salinised the dream controls, which makes it seem like she's trying to prevent the act of dreaming at all.

There's no such thing as luck.

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

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

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

And an even weirder thing to be so evasive about.

Are you two speaking about the same show?

She has a copy of your pomegranate folder open in front of her. All your patterns and tells: itemised.

Could say anything, though. 'Unauthorised speculating' or suchlike.

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.

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

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

There exist brick walls with more awareness than him.

Liquidity far beyond your current state of matter.

A different type of magic.

No different to the beasts that wander the wilds.

His mind was busy doing something else.

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