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No dreams of peace, justice or equality -- only those of a well-oiled machine.

This is only a philosophical conversation for one of you.

Interesting chimeras do proliferate after the End of History.

'Their own' tasks, which is your case are the diametric opposite of sweeping, operant.

Not sarcasm. He's clearly proud of the depressing surroundings you find yourself in.

Obviously expensive, though the stickiness is probably not part of the original design.

Plastic threads show signs of stretching before having snapped. Effort was needed to achieve this.

The stink of chlorine and guilt.

Unhappy to be stuck down here, on the street, when there is action elsewhere.

Not bootlegs or knock-offs, but the genuine article.

DOESN'T THEIR PRIDE IN THEIR AUTHORITARIAN HERITAGE SICKEN YOU? DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU QUAKE WITH IMPOTENT RAGE?

No one's confronted them about it so far.

The few members of the Illuminated Empire allowed to expatriate find themselves in high demand throughout the Developed World as mercenaries and bodyguards.

Gun. Gun. Knife and gun.

Those don't count as actual weapons.

Purring in your pocket.

BOOOOOO. HISSSSSSS.

Agh! Debased! Destroyed!

Sour sickness on the back of your tongue.

They're judging you right now.

Far below, a rhythmic thumping. Organic maybe. And is that the smell of sweat you detect?

Your friend's little vanities seem especially hopeless now.

Tempo was a consummate appreciator of the finer things in life. Reno's treating this incarnation according to the rules of the man he already knew.

ALL THAT IS LEFT IS ANIMAL.

Silent treatment.

WITNESS THE IMPRISONED REVOLUTIONARY. DESPITE HIS HARDSHIPS, HE STAYS TRUE TO ECONOMIC CHASTITY.

He'd give anything to hear Tempo call him a cunt just one more time.

The disappointment he feels is unjustifiable even to himself, but you can read it in his eyes.

He wanted to meet his nemesis head on. He wanted it to have a face.

Life and death. Kill or cure. No middle ground.

Light shines for the first time on territories it has never before reached.

Best not to think about it. But also, definitely brain.

Primal howling from the depths of your brain.

Words useless. Can't hear. Void.

By now you are an expert in speaking to the non-responsive and the absent.

The mirror-corpse cannot absolve you of anything.

Hissing radio silence. The darkness between planets.

Death sealed. Silent ghosts. For now.

He gives no indication that he has the slightest clue that's not where the story ends. You're off the hook.

Precipice. Jump or flee.

With Remote Viewing you are going in cold. This technique has at least been explained to you.

From the implement table, the crank drill snickers at you.

A good opportunity to administer some semi-rational treatment: the ozone.

Cöward! When will we ever have this opportunity again? Drill, drill, drill!

This game's getting played, even with a handicapped substitute.

Incessant. Scream of newborn.

The mind turned inward on itself.

Outer stillness accompanied by rapid eye movements as your amateur diagnosis hits.

No. You have HOLOCENE.

Feels it. The communion you shared.

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