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[latkje]

[ This is Nash. He has a pleasant but lazy expression. ]

I don't like to live in the past. It makes me feel old. But when a thought eats at you, sometimes the only thing you can do is take a bite, right?

Anyway, a few weeks ago something the Initiative did put people in their wrong bodies. I don't mean to drudge up bad memories, but— think about it. What are we, really? Hands, feet, fingers, eyes?

We've all got bodies, but souls? [ He shakes his head. ] Not for me to say.

But if the Initiative can keep our fingers and toes and move the rest around, it means there has to be something else, right? And whatever that something else is, the Initiative can mess with it it.

[ The implications are spooky, so he takes a moment to be spooked. And then waves that all away, shrugging. ]

You ever stop to think, and not know how to start up again?

Comments

[sacrificar]

It would not be surprising to me.

[latkje]

Feels wrong though, just assuming stupidity. That's an easy way to underestimate.

[sacrificar]

You are not incorrect. Though they've given us little reason to assume otherwise.

[latkje]

Yeah, I've noticed that, too. Too bad you can't bet on both sides of the coin.

[sacrificar]

If not that, then what would you do?

[latkje]

We don't have to bet yet, do we?

[sacrificar]

You will wait?

[latkje]

I don't know. I could bide my time until I get sent back.

[sacrificar]

If such a time ever comes.

[latkje]

There's nothing so far that suggests it wouldn't.

But I guess nothing to guarantee that it will.

[sacrificar]

So much of this world continues to change.

[latkje]

That can't be all bad, right?

[sacrificar]

Not all.

[latkje]

It's a tricky thing, to be all bad.

Or all good, for that matter.

[sacrificar]

Some can achieve it more easily than others.

[latkje]

That's definitely true.