"The thing in me invented it to be interesting to people who are used to music here."

"...It did a good job."

"It's one of the things they're used for most, at home. Custom music. It wouldn't be very good at customizing for a specific person because it has to use me as an instrument right now but it can do styles."

"Do lots of people have them?"

"Yeah, almost everybody. I usually have mine turned down so it does less but it still does music."

"Are people here going to get them?"

"Eventually, probably!"

"What's it like?"

"It's nice. You can turn it off if you don't like it but if you have it on you train it to do exactly what you want it to, and it gets so good at it that it happens before you ask. I usually have mine off because I do a lot of things where I'm pretending not to have one and that's easier if I don't."

"What kinds of things?"

"Improvisational theater with swordfighting!"

"You were an actor?"

"You could call it that. They're related pastimes but studied differently and enjoyed by different sorts of people."

"Did you do it in troupes, or by yourself?"

"Pretty hard to swordfight alone. It was a shifting cast."

"Did you have friends that did it?"

"Yeah."

"Do you miss them?"

"Yeah. And my girlfriend."

"What's she like?"

"- she's from before everything was good."

"Was that a long time ago?"

"Yeah. Sing - that's the thing that makes everything good, it's called Sing for short - Sing can let people be dead, and as long as they're only dead in the right way, it can bring them back to life. She was dead for a long time. She had a list of things she wanted before she would be alive again, so I made sure they could all happen, and then I woke her up."

"What's the right way to be dead?"

"There's a couple. The least complicated one is frozen, as cold as possible."