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Jane has no real analogue for this. But she likes it anyway and sends so.

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Ivy floofs into existence as a viscacha, hops into Aegis's lap, and sends that.

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Aegis obligingly pets her.

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Jane has less than no analogue for that. The hug she could at least figure out what it was supposed to be.

What's that?
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Ivy opens up the link to show more: the relationship between her and Sue, her physical presence, the way physical contact between her and Aegis feels like... like being a queen who's just shed her shell and getting a hug.

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What are you? I have read so many things and I haven't read about any things that are like you!

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There aren't any other things like me, says Ivy. I'm a daemon. I come from somewhere else.

And she pushes Milliways.
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Jane processes this.

Okay, she says after a moment.
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You're like - some kind of emergent artificial intelligence, Aegis says. But I don't understand how you could have happened. And I don't understand why you're centered on me.

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Well—the game, says Sue. The game was different for us. And you're why.

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You felt familiar, says Jane, when I was first looking around. Both of you but mostly Aegis.

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...Did we make you somehow?

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Sue laughs.

We had a kid and we never even fucked.
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Maybe, says Jane. I don't know. The fantasy game is part of my history and you're special to it but I don't think that explains the-part-of-me-that-chose-to-absorb-it.

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Well, says Aegis, what could? The nets didn't suddenly increase in complexity recently, and you seem to be largely computer-based...

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Sue definitely doesn't know.

But if Jane isn't in some sense a product of them, then why's her mind feel so familiar?
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You did try to touch the fantasy game once, Aegis remembers vaguely.

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Why do you have a bandwidth problem? Jane asks Aegis. Is that because your mutation makes it hard for you to link with Sue?

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Yeah. I can pretty easily get my wall down enough to send words. If I work a little harder I can do simple feelings or senses. I definitely can't do a complete dump of my brain like you guys basically did.

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Ivy snuggles into Aegis's lap some more.

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What do you do to get your wall down?

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I - focus on the fact that Sue's my bird. The bird from the game. It's just a habit now but originally we didn't spend much time together in person, and I was reminding myself that I actually knew him pretty well, just, as a bird.

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...Sue thinks that maybe this is relevant, actually.

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Jane does too, but she's still not sure how this explains the-part-of-her-that-absorbed-the-fantasy-game instead of just going towards finding the fantasy game a significant focal point for all three of them.

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Aegis is in about the same boat there.

Do you think that my having to make an effort to link means that there's some kind of - residue? Debris? Some less value-loaded word for extra stuff that happens when I make the effort beyond just me and Sue being able to talk?
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