sequel to maitimor
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They shake their heads.

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"This is weird," mutters Belmarniss, flipping through the written summary.

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"Weirder than it looks at first glance?"

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"They're not just from more or less recognizable other planes, the planes are all wildly different and so are the pharaoh-type people."

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The new, sleeping person is dressed in backwards clothes including one glove and one sock.

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"Do you know something?"

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" - no. Which is very annoying, I usually do."

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"She looks human and I think she's too short to be a Maitimo given a human height distribution. That'd make her Anaander's, can't you guess anything from the clothes?"

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"Not human, I don't think."

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He gestures for the body to be dragged away.

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"She looks human, what else would she be?"

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"I'm not human."

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"The summary says you're a hive mind when you're at home, but aren't you a hive mind of humans?"

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Nod. "But she's not. - I meant it when I said I hadn't figured it out. But she's mine and she's not a human."

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"Maybe you could - elaborate on the technical sense of 'human' you're using here."

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"I do not think she was born of human parents and grew up doing her cognition with a human brain and now still does that. I do not know exactly which elements of that are off."

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Elsewhere, she wakes up.

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There is a human standing there. He casts some spells on her. 

"Name?" he asks.

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"Hmmmmmmm," she says. "...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm how about Rubelite? But if you ask the rest of me you might get a different answer! I can't tell me right now."

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" - please. I'm - sorry for everything, but please let me watch it's complicated and I'll explain later and I need to know -"

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" - what do you need to know for?"

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"She's a ship. Aliens made her to talk to me."

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