[Val might as well have won the lottery. It’s no tragic backstory, but! Ha! Who needs file privileges to figure people out?]
Wonderful. [As ever, not a trace of sarcasm there. She claps her hands together with the word.] Well, not for everyone on your home’s metaphorical tracks. But it sounds like an awfully complex place, with too many moving parts to count! [You know, as states of existence should be.]
If I may, one last question. [A name? Tempting. But there are bigger matters at hand.] Who are you: the friend on the tracks, one of the faceless thousand, or the one at the lever? Or perhaps… [And this, she thinks, is the most intriguing option of all:] the one laying the tracks?
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[Val might as well have won the lottery. It’s no tragic backstory, but! Ha! Who needs file privileges to figure people out?]
Wonderful. [As ever, not a trace of sarcasm there. She claps her hands together with the word.] Well, not for everyone on your home’s metaphorical tracks. But it sounds like an awfully complex place, with too many moving parts to count! [You know, as states of existence should be.]
If I may, one last question. [A name? Tempting. But there are bigger matters at hand.] Who are you: the friend on the tracks, one of the faceless thousand, or the one at the lever? Or perhaps… [And this, she thinks, is the most intriguing option of all:] the one laying the tracks?