Annie at the end of all things
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Not that it wouldn't have been great if you'd anticipated wanting immortal humans down the line but you were kind of swamped.

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Not like focusing on the war did any good -

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You couldn't have known that.

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No, I couldn't have.

 

Kiss.

Let's go check the repercussions of your magic revelations.

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Back upstairs to read the internet firestorm!

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Somebody has used the magic song to claim the Randi Prize and wants to give Annie half the money. A nurse has been fired for singing it to his patients (if his story is to be believed) and it didn't work anyway for some reason. An excited music theory nerd has written 18 pages on the characteristics of the song. Somebody's trying to set up a clinical trial, does Annie know if there's a way to blind the study so people don't know if they're getting the real song or not if they're unable to get ahold of people who've definitely never heard it?

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"None of that's too bad - release some other ones, you think?"

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"Maybe - which next, though - and is there a way to blind that study - and what bank account should I have our half of the prize sent to or should I just turn it down, I don't know if we're rich enough that half a million dollars is nothing -" She forwards the music theory nerd's email to Lírnith, recommends to the nurse that it's not guaranteed to work if reproduced by an amateur singer but should work consistently off the recording.

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"We can ask Laurië to sing something that's close but wrong and not magic, half a million dollars isn't much but it's rather telling that it's not -"

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"I could come up with another reason to turn it down, I could say I don't want to give out my bank account information or that since it was their idea to try for the prize it's all theirs or something."

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"As someone who worked for the government for a while it's possible to accept half a million untraceably but not easy."

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Nod. "And I'm not pretending to be somebody who'd know how to do that particularly."

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"So maybe tell 'em to give it to charity."

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"That works too." She rummages around and picks a nice charity. Marisol would tell her to give it to the Peace Corps but there's probably something better, personal connection or no.

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Annie has such good priorities. She scrolls through the internet reactions some more and considers what other songs to give out - sleep might be safe enough -

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Annie can think of ways it could be used unsafely (coming up next on Radio You Listen To While Driving!) but honestly that's true of most of them. What's the duration and onset time?

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Varies, it's one of those with a bunch of variants.

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So maybe one that takes a while to kick in and doesn't last too long and if nothing horrible happens with that they can maybe release heavier-duty versions.

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She solicits one that meets these criteria from her sister.

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And when it's ready up it goes.

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"I love you too."

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