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Medium

Its 'eyes' find yours, even through the haze of crimson.

Easy

He sees it. He sees the great unfairness afflicting you.

Easy

The question is: Can you live with your own?

Medium

Behind the abstractions, an unopened envelope rests on a countertop, the words 'FINAL NOTICE' stamped across its front.

Easy

He really does feel for you.

Easy

This man's punishment may be of his own making.

Easy

A light crackle teases you. The man from Foto 24?

Trivial

An implicit accusation there.

Trivial

His tone: one step short of accusatory.

Easy

Just address them.

Medium

In the silence after she speaks, you sense, rather than hear, something on the line. A presence. Someone is listening in.

Medium

'Yes', she means.

Trivial

Her, you, and the breathing mannequin.

Easy

Younger than your mother, but in her mind, she's an old woman.

Medium

She likes remembering him this way, in her shop, pretending to discreetly examine her list of services.

Challenging

She recognises no neighbours -- only potential threats.

Easy

A long time for a rumour to linger.

Medium

She doesn't trust you. Yet.

Medium

The facility's nickname is new to her. A delicious tidbit to hide away for later.

Easy

Relieved at the prospect of not having to spackle any tack-holes once you're gone.

Trivial

Medium

There's no such policy. She knows taking your money would make her complicit in the act.

Formidable

One hundred photographs. A family of strangers.

Easy

And yet, the thought of scandalising her dead parents thrills this woman to the bone.

Medium

Trying her best to be helpful.

Medium

She's dying inside. She felt a great deal of affection for your double.

Easy

The attitude that has carried her through her entire life, through whatever hardship.

Easy

Easy

Hunch correct. Snooping vindicated.

Easy

A crackle of recognition behind his eyes as they meet yours.

Easy

The man has nowhere else to go. There is no one better for the assignment.

Challenging

A deeply off-putting answer, she thinks.

Medium

A pleasing symmetry. She likes that very much.

Medium

A pleasing symmetry. She likes that very much.

Medium

... she should call off the assignment.

Challenging

'Don't do it. If you do, I won't recognise you anymore.'

Challenging

'Don't do it,' her voice says. 'If you do, I won't recognise you anymore.'

Medium

Spoken from experience.

Easy

Dripping skepticism.

Formidable

Memetic contagion. A massive risk to any modern organisation.

Formidable

A liquid supper.

Medium

She pronounces the word like a caress.

Medium

Unmistakable regret in her tone.

Medium

She's thinking of her friends, whom she doesn't actually spend that much time with.

Medium

The magic box may be monitored. Perhaps your controller's being recorded for training and political reliability purposes.

Medium

Don't let her down -- become the operant she needs you to be.

Medium

She's wondering how long till she can have a drink. Treacly liqueur from a can. It's been several hours since her last.

Medium

The cleaner's face obscured from clients who'd rather not have to acknowledge the humanity of their janitorial staff.

Medium

Nothing to do with M.I.H.O. If it came to it, he would've taken ten more bullets on his way to you.

Trivial

Fun hating, authoritarian, universally loathed. Even if you didn't know her address was under Kavanaugh, you would recognize Eszti from a mile away.