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"Maybe it'll come clear one day."

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"Maybe. I don't intend to lose sleep waiting for them." 

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"It'd be disappointing if you did."

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"They can catch up with me if they want to talk." 

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When the train has made its circuit, Kamuor goes a little giddily back into Rhonda's house. "Thank you so much for showing me all that."

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"You're so welcome. Let me know if you have any ideas for the next one?" 

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"Me? I didn't even take city planning - I'll see if I can find stuff online?"

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"Hey, anyone can have aesthetic intuitions, and I'm not exactly working with a full think thank yet." 

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"All the cool indulgent ideas I could think of would probably be awful to maintain."

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"Oh, I bet you could make floating buildings."

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"Ooh, yeah, I'd have to put up warnings but I have no materials constraints, that'd just take some reasonably clever application of unreasonably powerful magnets." 

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"But then if anything happened to desensitize a magnet..."

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"True...that's true of trains, too, though." 

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"The size of magnets you need for trains we can manufacture without running to you every time."

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"I wouldn't do many cities with floating buildings." 

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"I think it would wind up being - really easy for you to wind up busier than you wanted to be."

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"...Well...fair." 

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"You're the only person who can do what you do. Floating buildings would be fun! They just..." Kamuor shrugs.

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"They're not the most important thing, and I shouldn't overextend myself on frivolities before I've got the essentials covered." 

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"Yeah. And there's not really a ceiling on how many essentials you might want to cover. We can fill up cities really fast."

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Nod. "Assuming I make it so everything in a city can be maintained without my ongoing supervision, I should at least eventually, mm, get a sense of what kind of demands ongoingly making cities is going to have on my time?" 

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"And then you can add frills. Or just give people superpowers."

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"I can add some frills without compromising maintainability, but yes, floating should wait." 

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"Oh, yeah, there's no reason not to make them super pretty in any way that cheaply repeats, or whatever."

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