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I can't believe how much time people spend on these machines
and how much weirdly personal and/or sensitive information people seem happily inclined to spill on them. Or you'd think it was sensitive at least.

Anyway I think it's so interesting how badly people want to go home and say they have their own battles to fight and the Initiative's battle is not theirs. It's interesting because if the Initiative is to be believed then their fight is our fight too. Given that our worlds are likewise being plundered. I wonder which world of mine is actually being used but I can only really think that home would be good for it. Of course it's hard to trust these people. I wonder what they would have to do to win the whole group over though. Entirely it's probably an impossibility. There's too many different factors. They sure do let folks run with slack though.

Who remembers when we fought practice battles in our memories anyway?? I am interested in talking to you.

Also I want to play a game. Does anyone know a good word game?

Here are some riddles too.

1) You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
2) I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?
3) What can you catch but not throw?

Who thinks of these things anyway? [People are so strange.

SHE'S BORED YEAH...]

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What are you implying?

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Why, only that I hope to know your favorite meal soon, and not a thing more.

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Mmm... [SUSPICIOUS.]

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Would I lie to you, my dear?

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I don't know.

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Come, that's an easy enough question!

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Probably if it served you.

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Oh, to the common man, perhaps, but not to you! Besides, knowing you, my dear, you would most likely see through any lies immediately. It would be better not to try.

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Mmm. That's so reassuring. [She's not even trying to not sound sarcastic.]

Seriously... what do you want?

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What, of you? Or are we speaking in the broader sense of what do I want from the world at large?

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Of me.

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To put it as frankly as I can manage, I'd like to be your friend.

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[Even with the bedroom eyes.]

You said that before...

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It's still true!

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I've heard it before. [From other people. And it's turned into other stuff. She's been burned son!!!]

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And surely it wasn't all that bad, was it?

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But... why bother? I told you I don't want to do anything like that.

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You'll have to forgive me if I don't entirely believe that. Everyone wants friends.

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Well... but... [The flirting.

Argh, she feels bad for this.]

You seemed so upset before too. I don't know if I'm good for people.

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I wasn't, and I'm terribly sorry to have given the impression!

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Okay...

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And, even if I was— well, it would hardly have been your fault. I would rather keep your company than not.

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That's rather kind of you to say. I think most of the time it is me who brings things around to that kind of conversation. I don't know. Maybe it would be better just to act like I didn't think of it.

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I suppose it's... always an option.

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I don't know. It just seems to depress people. Most of them have a better outlook...