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<p>&ldquo;No, not particularly. When I say that she has confirmed guesses, what she has done is invite me to talk and simply agreed when something I have said is right, perhaps expanding on it by small amounts.&rdquo; Her expression soured. &ldquo;I get the impression that she would <em>like</em> to share more with me, but that she is simply not allowed to.&rdquo;</p>
<p>I frowned. &ldquo;You mean someone&rsquo;s keeping her from doing so?&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;It is a hunch. Perhaps her implants limit her by NDA. Perhaps our communications are being monitored, and she is being instructed to limit the topics or to act in this way. While talking with Need An Answer, she suggested that this is also what the eighth stanza is used to doing, but they are the political ones.&rdquo;</p>
<p>I dredged up what history of the System I had learned, all of those sensationalist stories about the few old clades steering the direction of the lives of however many billions of uploaded minds and their instances — certainly well over two trillion, if one counted the two launch vehicles, Castor and Pollux that had been sent out seventy five years prior. More, if what Hanne said was right.</p>
<p>I dredged up what history of the System I had learned, all of those sensationalist stories about the few old clades steering the direction of the lives of however many billions of uploaded minds and their instances — certainly well over two trillion, if one counted the two launch vehicles, Castor and Pollux that had been sent zooming out of the Solar System at incredible speed seventy five years prior. More, if what Hanne said was right.</p>
<p>&ldquo;And they&rsquo;d be sneaky like this, too?&rdquo; I asked.</p>
<p>A snort of laughter and she nodded. &ldquo;Sneaky is one way to put it, yes. They shape interactions by second nature, for which a portion of the clade has distanced themselves from them. We — Hammered Silver&rsquo;s up-tree instances — are not supposed to be speaking to any of them, but there are a few that I like plenty, and given our current status, I have begun interacting more openly with Need An Answer.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Wary of letting the topic drift too far, I said, &ldquo;Have they gotten anything else from phys-side, then?&rdquo;</p>