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@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Of all the departments, though, they paid attention to epistemics, the departmen
 
 Not that they did not also love Abby. 
 
-It was just that *now,* ey was Soot. Soot had work to do. Soot was the one who got a job at Nanotrasen, had studied hard and passed all the qualifications, had wormed their way into the ranks of command.
+It was just that *now,* they were Soot. Soot had work to do. Soot was the one who got a job at Nanotrasen, had studied hard and passed all the qualifications, had wormed their way into the ranks of command.
 
 Abby had her own work to do, and that was work of comfort and processing.