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Brother death. Salud.

Simple: the strike of a metal pin ignites the bullet's firing cartridge. Having nowhere else to go, the energy from that contained explosion pushes the bullet out of the gun's muzzle.

See? The Opera provides.

From the profoundest, most autistic depths of your self, a sense of universal harmony and order wells up.

Clang. A can clattering down, cutting through the Bazaar's noise. Patrons walking around, sipping cold coffee.

The mould that emerges looks... less than impermeable.

A clotted, sickly rainbow sludge, haunted by the tenuous remains of discernible shapes.

Unmade back into synthetic polymer, the primordial soup from which a race of anti-lifeforms might emerge.

Around you, night drags the day out of sight.

She's looking at you. Don't look back. Unsuturable wound.

Another drop of phantom blood in the clear waters of your soul.

Spines of ice bloom across your ribcage.

WHAT WILL YOU SAY TO THAT CRUEL ANGEL --

Spare her this knife, at least.

Slash these ties clean. It will make it easier to not look back.

The first time she's reckoned with another person turning against her. The real her.

Slightly self-conscious all of a sudden.

She won't. The knife will stay in her.

You have a picture of this girl in your pocket. The postcard.

The first tram ride into Portofiro, HOLOCENE at your side, face turned to the window, giving a twenty minute answer to one of the world's most common questions.

The prospect twists your gut in terror.

Not too different. You both sculpt the world -- one from the dark, the other in the light.

Hit her with that memorable chorus, lodge it in her head:

They're turning on each other. Exploit it.

She is less certain with every passing hour.

Sixth generation Luzian fighter jet. Deployed in most of their 'Reunional Military Actions'. Serious rapid gear.

The purple plane wouldn't help.

ULTRA VIOLATOR.

She's in one now.

Genuine. You've intrigued a famous person.

The word sounds blasphemous coming from her mouth.

Luz said it, but they don't really believe it. They just want any excuse to operate on foreign territory, vaguer the better.

Looking at the two girls, you are reminded that all your close relationships have ended in either tragedy or miscommunication, usually both.

She meant that. Possible gäng.

We would have whipped at popstar school. Leader of the pack.

Like an unfavourable omen.

It was eerie, she thinks. A silencing of all music amid the man's gravitational pull.

In a dim recording studio in the Luzian capital of Cicatriz Frontera, a young girl and an old man discuss an unfolding of light. A cultural hypernova. A map across the stars.

THE WAR ADDRESS. GENERAL AND CHAMPION.

Aimed for nonchalance, flew wide of the mark.

She would've been less disappointed if you'd told her you detested it.

A middle-aged vendor begins carefully laying sheets of tarpaulin over his wares. As he smooths out the creases, he hums an intimate melody meant for no one but himself.

A middle-aged vendor carefully arranges his wares in accordance with a strict personal algorithm. As he does, he hums an intimate melody meant for no one but himself.

Wow. This impossibly beautiful Being from a Higher Plane is telling you you have existential problems.

As Petre told you -- Einzeltone XR is immune to bootlegging.

Let her speak. See where she thinks the words stem from.

Fück yes. Can't keep us down.

Light blooms behind her pupils.

As old as her. She is L-Pop.

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