Alas.
“I’ve heard from my partner that–“
“Ah, yes! The illustrious Dear! How is he?”
-“It. It’s doing quite well.”
+“It(This should come up later with Dear, who will doubtless throw back its head, cackling. It’s doing quite well.”
“Right, right. It always did have such a strange way of moving through the world.”
“If we could–” Ey cut emself off and recomposed eir plastic smile. “I’ve heard that you are working on a project that capitalizes on this. Can you expand on that?”
“Of course! Of course. I will always help a fellow writer.” He set his cup aside and made a grand sweep of his arm. “You look around you, and you see so many going about their lives as the might have otherwise. Even I am guilty of the dalliance of getting up, drinking coffee, perhaps sitting and reading a while. We lucky few–” Codrin knew that some two and a half billion personalities were on the launches, but ey declined to comment. “–can draw so much inspiration from a project on so grand a scale. My project is one that utilizes the base nature of a personality embedded in a system that cares not about consistency between its two constituent parts.
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@“They do not need to be. They are all the same.”