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"Do most people not find you entertaining? I think you're a riot."

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"I mean, I get along! I am a popular guy, including with totally normal people who aren't elves or genetically engineered or anything. But you, and - and -"

Blink, blink.

"Uh, Bar. Do alts have to look the same? I mean, beyond things like elf ears and - height and stuff."

They do not.

"Ah-huh."
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"...What, do you know an alt of me?"

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"...Mark?" says Miles, incredulously. "I... oh God, I can actually see it. Sort of."

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"Bar, can you by any chance just tell about this sort of thing?"

They are not quite alts. But they're something very like it. If pressed I would say that Lalita is Mark's "half-alt".

"Ooookay."
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"And what is Mark up to at the moment?"

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"Things Ivan doesn't want to dwell on, with Miles's alt, Stalas."

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"Why is the concept of not wanting to dwell so difficult?"

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"Sorry," giggles Lalita. "That does sound like a me, though."

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Miles is now envisioning things he could perhaps have done without envisioning.
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"I think I want to meet this person. When they're done."

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"Me too."

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Isabella snorts.

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"Oh my god."

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"Has someone tread on a cultural norm?"

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"Not dwelling!"

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"Ivan, you are definitely dwelling. You are dwelling as thoroughly as it is possible to dwell. You have bought the apartment, the building, and possibly the entire city block."

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"I know!"

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Miles snickers slightly.

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"Should we find something else to talk about, I wonder?"

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"More technology to exchange. What year is it for you, anyway?"

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