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It's truly amazing how you can stop feeling so stressed out if you just turn your NV off for the night. [She means Sunday night when she went to the ryokan with Gin.] Of course, when you need to go to work and you have to turn it on twelve hours later, you certainly feel like you've missed a bit. It was nice while it lasted, though
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At least you had a bit of time to relax. I know it's frustrating, to feel like there's no progress towards maintaining any kind of stability. The locals would call this kind of chaos stable, but I believe we could raise the standards of living to something humane and decent if more people believed we have the capacity to- if there was not just the recognition that things are intolerable, but amendable.
If we didn't just settle for things the way they are...
You've...really changed the way I think, Re-l, since that day we were in the Wombsys atrium.
It's good to be dissatisfied with the way things are, but that knowing discomfort alone isn't enough. I think we're moving in the right direction. I think we just need to keep finding ways to keep up our momentum.
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It doesn't matter if people recognize that there's a problem; everyone can see that. It's the fact that the locals have resigned themselves to this life because they can't see anything otherwise and there's so very little that we can do.
I just hope that it's really the right path we're taking.
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It's like being a dome all over again, this island. It's isolated. We immigrants are the only fresh wind of perspective.
I have every faith in you. We'll work at it. It will take a long time, maybe longer than a lifetime, but at least this city's self-sustaining.
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And the locals are just as ignorant to our help as we were to the immigrants when they came, not that they had much opportunity.
How long of a lifetime are we measuring?
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Ah well. I suppose it's healthy to feel like a massive hypocrite, when it's a learning experience. Right?
Well, Dr. Xavier's well over eighty. Your grandfather was- ...let's hope for a long lifetime, because I'd rather not be cut short, at this point.
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Possibly, I suppose...
Eighty years? I'll be sick of myself before I'm sixty.
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At least we can understand a little of the local perspective. That will be to our advantage.
Well. I won't be sick of you.
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We still need someone who can speak better with the locals.
[She chuckles.] You would.
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If I'm wrong, I'll owe you lunch on your 80th birthday. Bored silly. If I'm right...I'll still pay, and be a gentleman.
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That's not enough incentive to really keep me alive until I'm eighty, you know.
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What kind of incentive would you like, Re-l? I have no more great secrets to keep from you. But I don't think you'll ever need hip prosthetics, not even at eighty.
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I'm not going to ask- [A flustered noise.] Hip prosthetics?!
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Teasing you. Relax. You'll still be beautiful, at eighty.
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[Nhhh.] Daedalus.
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...Re-l, look at what this world has done to me. I'm becoming a sentimentalist.
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Daedalus, really. I think this world has just made you more open and honest.
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