"I will require carbohydrates for my trouble."

"My favorite kinds of unfathomable power are the kinds you can trade for cookies."

She is circling things in the guidebook. 

"What's the agenda, lovely?"

(The Space Maitimo blinks.)

"Colony planets! And the other Noldorin kingdom, and these three Dwarven cities and these two Orcish ones -"

"Well, you can teleport, show me."

Here is a colony planet! 

"...I'm actually not sure how you'd do the teleport, or the computer, without outright mindreading-"

"Kib concluded that too but he did start out assuming the Enemy could do that. You could pin it on Liz likewise I guess. Or wait out however much dilation you think can go between dreams and wait for me to say she hasn't had time to pick up mindreading? No that won't work psions can do sleeplessness..."

"I think eventually I'll probably be pretty sure."

"Speaking of dilation, that time with the twenty years, Island and Kib thought that would've had to be inserted whole-cloth, not lived through, it's not standard practice but I kept fucking with her, so."

"...yeah, think so, there were weird holes - and no names, but she does that to me sometimes -"

"I would've fixed it if you'd popped out with no names."

"We had a fight. ...she did that sometimes when she was getting fed up with the effort to fake you -"

"I can't actually remove memories and you claimed to have spent ten years catatonic and I would've freshened you up in there somewhere even if you subsequently antagonized me somehow."

"...yeah, you would have."

"What'd we fight about? - would you rather I didn't ask, or, I don't know, save it for Tuesday and just do touristing now?"

They're doing such good touristing; they are walking through this city and she's checking to see if any blocks or buildings or pedestrians are duplicated.

"...usually it was that I wasn't okay and you got impatient, that occasion there was actually a lot of political intrigue on top of that -"

"Would it be interesting if novelized?"

"...possibly. Why -"

"I'm not specifically interested in novelizing it, I just, I have no idea what you spent that time doing except that it was really horrible -"

"...and you want to know?"

"...I'm curious, which is not exactly the same thing."

"If you want to know I'll tell you."

"Well, partly I'm curious and partly I have this problem where aside from desperately flinging you at a therapist who is known to be able to make progress on cases strikingly similar, I don't know how to - look after you - and I don't know if asking you to tell me constitutes becoming more able to do that, or failing to do it in the course of asking, or both, or what."