An innocent robotics researcher's lab has been demolished, the roboticist is dead, the lab assistants range from dead to traumatized, and a pocket everything on one of the rioters shows a recent text exchange - innocent, but anything could be code.
The greys arrest the other party to the conversation.
Nod. "Well. Okay. You have vivid dreams set twenty-something years ago in Lapis. About dying, sometimes. And you speak Harthanic."
"I haven't dreamed dying but I also don't have anything past like age 24."
"...I'm not sure how I wouldn't? Sometimes she's seven, sometimes she's seventeen, she's never twenty-five or up."
" - I think I might be failing to imagine what these dreams are like. If you're - seeing through someone's eyes - even if you are getting their thoughts - how often would they think about their age..."
"Not that often but they're - it's not like I'm dreaming about her it's like I am her."
"While you're dreaming are you aware you're dreaming, or is it just - living snatches of a different life -"
" - we have people who can have kids and people who can't, but none of you can have kids, the other differences are all cosmetic."
"You would have been so confused if you'd landed in a gender-segregationist town."
"There are gender-wide personality differences! A lot of people find they get along better with their own gender! Have you really not noticed?"
"...no, just like I wouldn't have noticed if skin color came with personality differences, because I'm not categorizing by it - what are the differences..."
"Uh, men are more aggressive, higher and more spontaneous sex drives, less likely to want to work in creches or take young apprentices, more risk-taking - most criminals and by a lower margin most rulers are men - there's - stuff it's hard to put into words -"
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