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Both showcase a serious passion for cryptography -- done purely for the love of it.

Plushie #3 has shredded the social contract.

A dramatic change in her voice. It seems the two of you may share an interest.

Leave him at it. You're starting to feel icky.

The gall! She who toils and sweats, while the vending automaton does nothing but dispense cheerfully, uncaringly, and at a significant price markup.

She peers out from behind the pages, eyes softening. She has deemed you clumsy enough to be trustworthy.

She smiles and leans back, endeared by your threat.

Impressive that he was able to win this woman over. He inspires empathy. Valuable trait.

Yeah, tell them how bad everything is. They need to know the horrors that await them in this world.

Perhaps you should let children be children.

These kids are lost. Their hearts belong to techno-fascism.

They've been raised weak, unfamiliar with the venom of the world.

Putting aesthetics before purpose, as a child would.

Good that you were honest. Eventually.

It's been years since you interacted with children so, a reminder: be nice. Be normal.

Obviously because you're wondering if their mother is the phone-sex lady.

You're becoming infinitely cooler in his eyes.

As you spill his secrets, your former double's face flashes across your mind.

She's drifting off into her own rage-sphere.

Every little act a show of defiance in the face of imagined enemies, down to even his passphrases.

He can almost taste those anticonvulsants.

Just because you think something, doesn't mean you need to say it.

It's not just about this call. He's only now remembering that this is his element.

You imagine Karolina's fingers wrapping around the small toy -- a comfort she's reached for since she was small.

Maybe Karolina took it with her when she moved out? A little souvenir, keeping her closer to home.

A big hit of his own dwindling supply gives the old man a fleeting high.

The laughter leaves in its wake something like conversational scar tissue.

Doused with cold water, all three of the pilots seem to sober up as your words hit them.

He edges out onto a thin sheet of memory, like a child on a frozen lake.

At the very least, you've added a few weeks to his lifespan.

First and foremost -- his own.

Only a subjugated stickler for the rules would call Eszti a 'nice lady'. Cut from the same un-fun cloth.

A blankness to the eyes, a downward twitching to the mouth. The beginnings of panic.

That's what she thinks of your 'taste'.

He's awed and onboard.

Whoever it is, they produce a white hot antipathy in you.

Like a child waiting for a dreadful present.

Maybe one of these pine trees cushioned his fall...

Nothing but dead air from when you moved him.... Unless...

PSEUDOPOD's -- now even further away from him than before.

The trousers are sad. Their owner has abandoned them.

She can't believe you. She can't believe herself.

Anyone regularly listening to Bagman's sermons on reality could easily lose their grip of the thing.

She's been keeping some little lights glowing inside herself -- to guide his safe return. Now they have started to flicker, dim.

Startled by the sound of her own joy.

She didn't believe you before. She does now.

Tough blow. The one institution that's supposed to take her seriously.

Unconvinced, unbothered.

He's just a nudge away at the best of times. Push him.

A sudden emanation of cold sweat answers the thought: bad idea.

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