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Let’s make him into a little god, like the neighbor’s kid. “Prepare a shuttle for her. The trail splits, one branch heading west, but Lucas presses south. In fact, he suggested we pass the time with sex, which caught me off guard.

Or did she say ‘diminished’? Typical diagnostic hand-waving. But the shadow of the rings cast by the sun lay across the planet’s face, sharp and unexpected. It isn’t her name, but she looks up. His brain seemed to have a pre-made list of cost-savers it had prepared behind his back, as though it knew this day would come.