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Gaah at the rules and players “What’s wrong with being who you are?”

“It’s not enough for everyone And this sort of thing attracts the lonely and the egocentric”

“And fanatics”

“Certainly E-services, particularly underground ones, provide the fanatic with an open forum” He cocked a brow, cut neatly into his steak “They also provide a service—educational for that matter—informative, intellectual And can be perfectly haral,” he reulated And that stems mainly from the fact that it’s nearly impossible to do so And cost prohibitive”

“EDD keeps a line on them”

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“I bet” She didn’t ask if he’d tried it out himself Some data sh

e didn’t need “I don’t get it You can rent a licensed coet sex in the flesh Why do you need this?”

“Fantasy, darling Having control or abdicating it And you can run the program over and over, with nearly unliain, and mind All fantasies are mood and mind”

“Even the fatal ones,” she said slowly “Isn’t that what this is all about? Having control Ultimate control over someone else’s ao and no conscience Mira says Jess doesn’t fit”

“Ah That’s a problem, isn’t it?”

She flicked a look down at him “You don’t sound surprised”

“He’s what, in —cross between a fuck and a pug Lots ofwho could draw blood without whining”

She cleaned the steak off her plate and set it aside “It see in this like”

He grinned at that “Well put, but fugs don’t kill, they just talk”