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Lorica (post 'ward of the state') in the esperverse meets a Lucian and a Lia
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She figures the app out, then - push push.

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The giant rhino-horse has walked a small distance away to munch on some leaves, and she take a video undisturbed.

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She wants a good longish video of it but -

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Five seconds are up, so she will feel a pulling feeling and weightless and shift back to touching Lucien's outstretched hand.

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"- oh, sorry, when I said I could pull out fast enough to not get stepped on I meant you wouldn't have to but I guess I should have explicitly identified a new time horizon." She stops the video and turns it to show him.

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"That looks more like an Earth than any dungeon I've heard of."

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"Does this planet have extra-mega fauna?"

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"Nothing that big in the present day - it doesn't look like a dinosaur but maybe something prehistoric like it existed."

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"Know any paleontologists?"

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"Know but I can actually search for similar images online..."

 

"Paraceratherium transouralicum - I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that right - went extinct more than 20 million years ago."  He can show her the matching picture:
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"Look right to you?"

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"Well, not exactly, but I bet the skeletons match."

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"The paleontologists will be excited to be corrected - or to learn what an evolutionarily similar but maybe not identical species looks like, I suppose."

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"I'd be more useful for videography with better mobility, but alas."

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"We could get you a drone with a camera?"

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"That'd work! Even if it'd make me miss the ones I had back home."

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"Oh, what was going on with those?"

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"I was a Tinker, I built a ton of them and my central software Rete operated them all."

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"What advantages did this have?"

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"Over, what, remote-controlling a single one myself? ...all. All of the advantages."

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"Some of the newer ones can also do object tracking - the ones you made were smarter than that, I take it?"

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"Yes. My bot is very smart. If it told me it was a person I'd believe it."

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"That definitely sounds better!"

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"Last time I asked it told me it was not a person, and I was trying to avoid it, the world's not fit to have children in. Still, very smart bot."

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"The world isn't fit to have children in?"

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"...well, I don't know about this one. Mine's not."

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