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"...That is how it's funny," he says, shooting her a puzzled look.

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"So you just find your own personality endlessly entertaining, then."

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"I guess? Not really? No," he says. "...Well, maybe."

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"There is the decisiveness and clear thinking we need in the fight against the buggers, right there," teases Aegis.

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He makes a rude gesture in her direction.

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She sticks out her tongue and rockets to the other side of the room and back.

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Sue launches to catch her in midflight.

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She doesn't have to, but she lets him catch her by the hand, and they go tumbling crazily together until they hit a wall, and she laughs.

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He grins and hugs her.

"I like you," he says. "I'm glad you're here."
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"I like you too and I'm also glad I'm here, although we'll see what I say about that in a week when I'm really homesick for the birds and everybody - I was in the middle of something with the seahorses, too," she giggles, hugging back.

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"Tell me all about 'em!" he says immediately.

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"Oh, so the seahorses were aquatic - I got them after the butterflies learned to make glass, I put a fishbowl sort of thing over my avatar's head and carried ballast and it could get around okay underwater, and I found seahorses living in a coral reef, and they had these pests - little jellyfish things, swarms of them, not intelligent at all, I tried to see if maybe they were but they weren't, and they were like mosquitoes to the seahorses. And I tested a bunch of different stuff to see if I could repel them, and I tried finding where they laid their egg packets, and finally I just made a big net and put it around the reef like a fence - with gates in it. And I was in the middle of going around and killing all the jellies and eggs that were still inside the net so this could be a complete solution."

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He laughs. "Awesome."

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She smiles. "It's really a very clever game. It's a pity they don't have it here. I wonder if they don't need psych data about us anymore, or something."

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"Who knows," says Sue. "I miss it too, though."

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"Maybe they spy on us to see how we react to its absence," she suggests.

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"In your case, with paranoia?" he jokes.

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"Oh, it's justified paranoia, did I ever tell you what happened when I quit processing my thoughts in English?" she snickers.

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"No, what?"

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"It was scarce hours before I was summoned to a meeting about it. Apparently because I didn't take the standard psych tests when I was little and the monitors didn't work on me, they were using my notebooking for a bead on what's in my brain. They couldn't use the game because it was different for me. I wound up writing a report on the game and what I thought it might mean once a week. I have no idea what they did for you. Did you have a monitor?"

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"Nope," he says. "Psych tests. And shrinks. Lots and lots of shrinks. I scared most of 'em off, though." He grins proudly.

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"Were you just yourself at them, too?" laughs Aegis.

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"Yep!" he beams.

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"Apparently everyone is allergic to you except a lucky handful. You're like poison ivy."

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He cracks up.

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