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Formidable

A measure of last resort. Reports state it being extremely painful for the recipient.

Medium

His soul is still new to the world, fresh and vulnerable. You need to walk him back one step at a time.

Medium

Her name seems to brush across your inner thigh.

Challenging

A trace of concern. Lean into it.

Legendary

Convince her to tell you about PSEUDOPOD.

Formidable

It would be so very easy to believe her. As if for you and you alone, it's no act.

Formidable

She casts it off, just like that. As if the phone was passed to a different person.

Formidable

No, wait, come back!

Formidable

This is the real deal. She fakes it with everyone else, but with you, she means it.

Medium

You are fucked up.

Easy

A soft, excited laughter folds into each word -- like sugar melting into warm cream.

Easy

His expression is soft, curious.

Easy

As for operant 'excommunications'... HOLOCENE is a case in point.

Easy

The text seems genuinely uncertain of what it is more interested in doing -- getting to the heart of the Opera's problems, or delivering the former director a literary pummelling.

Medium

It's his own current condition he is describing: the terminus of mistrust.

Medium

The work: To care for yourself, even and especially when no one else does.

Easy

It reads like he's mourning.

Easy

Could be anyone about to pick up. A total stranger, their life intruded.

Easy

She'd only tell you to get on an aero-tram back home again.

Medium

Recognition like that never goes amiss.

Medium

All HOLOCENE did was hunt for meaning... especially, perhaps, where it doesn't exist.

Medium

All HOLOCENE does is hunt for meaning... especially, perhaps, where it doesn't exist.

Medium

Not surprising. HOLOCENE's worldview isn't shared by many -- if anyone -- except the author of that particular book.

Medium

Artist types have their own uniform -- usually, whatever constitutes the opposite of formal.

Easy

A hint of suspicion.

Easy

She doesn't lack what's required of a boss, something else has dismantled her authority.

Easy

Finding order. She enjoys this, it keeps her together, grounded.

Medium

Some people's baseline is kindness.

Easy

This is the answer she wants to give -- carefully avoiding any mention of her 'sponsor'.

Easy

The inner core of people. She wants them to rip out whatever makes them tick.

Medium

Not a people person, then.

Medium

Translation: please, stop, I can't take this any more.

Medium

Her face softens -- an expression you haven't yet seen.

Challenging

Wow. A mega-blow. An all-in-one Hershel-ender.

Medium

This is exactly her kind of thing.

Easy

False promises and disappointments? Those are two of your special abilities.

Medium

It occurs to you that this little magazine may well be the sum total of this woman's life and legacy.

Godly

Placate her with a lie.

Easy

It's almost like she's lost a fundamental part of herself.

Easy

Amid the heavy darkness that possesses her comes a sunny spell. It won't last long.

Medium

'Maybe I do', she thinks to herself.

Medium

'I deserve a much worse fate', she thinks to herself.

Easy

Overly defensive. Usually a sign of insecurity.

Challenging

There's more to it than that. Having a break wasn't her choice.

Medium

It's been much harder than she's letting on. That magazine was her life.

Easy

Presumably because her whole life has been flipped around after her magazine was shuttered.

Medium

There's a bit more to it than that, but she's reluctant to admit it.

Easy

Few of the middle class residents of the Housing Campaign want to be seen openly making offerings or tending the shrine. Such things scream 'working class'.

Easy

Maybe it was her husband's idea.

Easy

He does not see the it in you.