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'''Kamal''': Right.<br />
'''Kamal''': Right.<br />
'''Sophia''': You don't think Aiden--<br />
'''Sophia''': You don't think Aiden--<br />
'''Kamal''': --No. No, I don't. Aiden couldn't dream of doing the kind of ghosting that's been <br />happening to me.
'''Kamal''': --No. No, I don't. Aiden couldn't dream of doing the kind of ghosting that's been happening to me.




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'''Kamal''': Hang on... '''(signal/offline)''' And presto! Now I'm offline. As far as the grid knows, I've just disappeared.<br />
'''Kamal''': Hang on... '''(signal/offline)''' And presto! Now I'm offline. As far as the grid knows, I've just disappeared.<br />
'''Sophia''': If someone really is listening to you, won't they notice that you just vanished?<br />
'''Sophia''': If someone really is listening to you, won't they notice that you just vanished?<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': I spent the last few days building a little Franken-kamal out of my own <br />bitstream traces.
'''Kamal/Offline''': I spent the last few days building a little Franken-Kamal out of my own bitstream traces.




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'''Sophia/Offline''': So now you think you're safe?<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': So now you think you're safe?<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Theoretically I guess you could build a program that would jump from chatter to chatter, tracking us everywhere we went, but it would have to be so unimaginably powerful.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Theoretically I guess you could build a program that would jump from chatter to chatter, tracking us everywhere we went, but it would have to be so unimaginably powerful...<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': We aren't right now.<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': We aren't right now.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline:''' Yeah.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline:''' Yeah.<br />
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'''Kamal''': You see?<br />
'''Kamal''': You see?<br />
'''Cashier''': Have a nice day.<br />
'''Cashier''': Have a nice day.<br />
'''Kamal''': Thanks<br />
'''Kamal''': Thanks.<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': Can you turn mine back on?<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': Can you turn mine back on?<br />
'''Kamal''': Yeah, it was just a test. Hold on. '''(signal/online)'''<br />
'''Kamal''': Yeah, it was just a test. Hold on. '''(signal/online)'''<br />
'''Sophia''': So, ask me again why I'm here eating crappy food with you in a lousy hospital <br />cafeteria in the middle of the day.
'''Sophia''': So, ask me again why I'm here eating crappy food with you in a lousy hospital cafeteria in the middle of the day.




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'''Kamal''': What?!<br />
'''Kamal''': What?!<br />
'''Sophia''': Aiden's in jail, the immigration cops caught him. They cancelled like half the <br />Visa's he'd arranged, including mine.
'''Sophia''': Aiden's in jail, the immigration cops caught him. They cancelled like half the visa's he'd arranged, including mine.




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'''Sophia''': Oh! Ya, sure, better to see me rot in a transport back to that dump.<br />
'''Sophia''': Oh! Ya, sure, better to see me rot in a transport back to that dump.<br />
'''Kamal''': You didn't mean it that way!<br />
'''Kamal''': You didn't mean it that way!<br />
'''Sophia''': You know, you want to be this thing, Aiden's right, you know, you want me to <br />be your mother, that little baba '''("baba" = grandmother)''' making coffee, but I hate that place!  
'''Sophia''': You know, you want to be this thing, Aiden's right, you know, you want me to <br />be your mother, that little baba '''("baba" = grandmother)''' making coffee, but I hate that place!
 
 
'''Kamal''': You don't mean that.<br />
'''Kamal''': You don't mean that.<br />
'''Sophia''': I'm glad I left! The [[Covenant|Covies]] can turn it into a damned ashtray for all I care!<br />
'''Sophia''': I'm glad I left! The [[Covenant|Covies]] can turn it into a damned ashtray for all I care! <br />
'''Kamal''': ...I think you should go now.<br />
'''Kamal''': (drops his cutlery) ...I think you should go now.<br />
'''Sophia''': ...To hell with you.<br />
'''Sophia''': ...To hell with you.<br />


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'''[[Hiroyuki|Hiro]]''': Hey, uh, Sophie called looking for you.<br />
'''[[Hiroyuki|Hiro]]''': Hey, uh, Sophie called looking for you.<br />
'''Kamal''': Oh yeah?<br />
'''Kamal''': Oh yeah?<br />
'''Hiro''': How about a [[beer]]?<br />
'''Hiro''': How 'bout a [[beer]]?<br />
'''Kamal''': No. I'm going to go inside and trace the bastards ghosting my chatter. I'm pretty <br />sure they're coming off the east coast.
'''Kamal''': No. I'm going to go inside and trace the bastards ghosting my chatter. I'm pretty sure they're coming off the east coast.




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'''Hiro''': Reports are just coming in -- they got it. It's gone. I'm sorry.<br />
'''Hiro''': Reports are just coming in -- they got it. It's gone. I'm sorry.<br />
'''Kamal''': Oh my God.<br />
'''Kamal''': Oh my God.<br />
'''Hiro''': On Reach, you know, on [[Reach]] they left some stuff. You've got to hope it was like <br />Reach Kamal, hold on to that.
'''Hiro''': On Reach, you know, on [[Reach]] they left some stuff. You've got to hope it was like Reach Kamal, hold on to that.




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'''Kamal''': --Sophia, it's raining, come in.<br />
'''Kamal''': --Sophia, it's raining, come in.<br />
'''Sophia''': '''(crying)'''--I was in the neighborhood, I was just wondering...<br />
'''Sophia''': '''(crying)'''--I was in the neighborhood, I was just wondering...<br />
'''Kamal''': Sophia, get some warmth(?)<br />
'''Kamal''': Sophia, you'll get sick...<br />
'''Sophia''': I was just wondering if you hate me?<br />
'''Sophia''': I was just wondering if you hate me?<br />
'''Kamal''': Shh...<br />
'''Kamal''': Shh...<br />