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You are intruding on something far more intimate than an exchange of intelligence.

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He seems nice, just wave at him as you go by.

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Ultimate solidarity with PSEUDOPOD. You can feel what he felt as the disc ripped his mind clean.

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Your dear friend Tempo, dead twice on your watch.

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You hear her stare too: So do I just fucking stand here like a Collateral Cunt or...?

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Your heart cracks. For your new friend and the old one within her.

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He's recited this story many times. The telling never gets any easier.

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Pump him up, really get him going. His feverish delusions can't be dispelled, only magnified.

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Drawn by the malice in his master's voice.

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The clown thing really got to him. Nice.

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Reminders of a world worth returning to.

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His smile is warm, knowing.

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She has a purpose.

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Dedicated to the fight, waging it on a back-alley field. She'll do whatever she can to help you.

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An apology that she left it broken, or that somebody else had to fix it.

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She's begging you to change the truth.

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Even now, in this lonely corner of the world, it finds you.

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You weren't who they needed you to be then, but maybe, maybe you are now.

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She imagines watching your names glide past together. Novessa premiere, Kino Harmoonia, front row, your hand on hers.

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Even now, in this lonely corner of the world, her voice finds you.

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Take it. A keepsake for the road.

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In this man's mental-life, physical violence is what happens to other people.

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No spouse. No friends. No passions. No beliefs. Just this.

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To you. Because you're a client.

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A dramatic change in her voice.

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Laughter, nervous.

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Sarcasm, laced with longing.

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For you, as much as it is for him. Has to keep himself sharp, or that'll be the day he loses.

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Could be another of his sales pitches. Could be...

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Poor guy. You should make sure he's okay, at least.

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The dead and the discarded.

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Carmuna's life flashes before your eyes. She never would have grown old had that day gone according to plan.

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Don't worry about his feelings. It suits you so much better.

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Final proof that he was not bluffing about her address. It's too much for the poor pilots to bear.

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Your own, maybe?

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Panicked. You've got him up against the wall of his own heart.

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His relief is such that it's almost a shame to correct his illusions.

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Slowly, with a kind of chemotheraputic drip, the knowledge of what you have just done sinks in.

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Preferably not at your friends. In fact, it might be best if you simply refrain from contact with people you don't intend to destroy.

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A nuclear core of psychosis... both real and imagined...

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He's lying, maybe even to himself.

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The mangled remains of an aborted paternal instinct have congregated around that two-headed horse like homeless men around a trash fire.

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Somewhere below the tram's thin floor lies her abandoned life, scattered like aircraft wreckage.

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But she's very glad you're here.

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My Intrepid Homosexual Orgy.

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A vision of Karolina's home life suddenly flashes before you. Her father -- doting, concerned, overbearing.

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He sympathizes with any organism that can survive under bleakly hostile conditions.

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You've neatly slotted yourself into the 'drug-seeking behaviour' category in his eyes.

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Those little arguments made his day.