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"But you're doing the history and she's doing the strain."

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"It's one project."

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"As you say, I suppose."

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"Possession being...?"

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"There are lots of reports, mostly old ones, of star clouds temporarily taking over people's bodies; they probably never happened but we were working on it.  Your way is better."

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"They're called angels but I assume the appearance of that word in the pamphlet is a strange language coincidence?  They don't sound at all like the same thing."

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"Yeah, nah, our kind of angels take their name from a mythological supernatural messenger being sometimes depicted as looking similar. Folks with feathered wings."

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"Sometimes they were said to look surhuman in various ways but those claims mostly died out with the rise of cameras."

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"'Sur'human? - also what's the strain."

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"Of omnilol, which would let star clouds possess living people.  And above-human, more than human."

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"Sometimes wings, sometimes an ethereal presence or various other magic powers."

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"My dialect says 'superhuman' or 'transhuman'. - are your last names also weirdly similar?"

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"Well no, we aren't mostly our own parents."

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"I could just call you all by your last names, if you want to wear nametags for a bit." He passes out nametags.

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"Not very fun, but practical."  All of them are left-handed; a few of them write the letters in the opposite order even though the end product is still in the usual orientation.

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How charmingly quirky. "Thank you."

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"What were the rest of your projects?" Felicity wonders.

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"Nootropics."

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"Very preliminary research for SSNA editing."

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"Why, lucid dreams."  She seems really amused.

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"Lucid dreaming works with people in my world if they do some annoying practice to set it up, is it an unsolved problem here or something?"

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"A drug to induce it consistently."

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"Neat."

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". . . Would you still have picked the four of us if you knew you were awake?"

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"Well, I'd have thought about it somewhat longer."

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