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Sort of. I tell the boss I'm thinking about buying something, justify how it'll help the estate, and she's never said no. I don't have my own supply though.


Well, half of this is yours, you know. A little bit to spend on yourself without having to run it past anyone else sounds nice, yeah?
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That would be a sad way to go.
*On one of the bakeries in our upcoming path, the decorations retract into the ground and the recesses of the building's façade, and they're replaced with the displays for a café; similar movement in the building's interior can barely be made out through the tinted glass*


Do you make money, by the way?
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Oh. Right. I guess this is the first time you're seeing so many people again.


Signs of life. It’s nice being sure I haven’t already spoken to the last other person I’ll ever see.
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Huh? What is?


Society.
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*We pass a train depot bustling with activity from the clearly wealthy and their hired help, and in the clearance created by the depot's low-set curved glass roof, a navy blue blimp huffs forward along its route in the distance*
We shouldn't be too long.


It’s really something you take for granted until you don’t have it anymore.
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You’re more likely to be bored than in danger. We even have a panic room in case anything happens.


Well, you know, ideally
*Leaves the sentence unfinished as I look around some more*
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Like your new job?
*Pauses for a few seconds*
...Kidding. That was a joke.


Don't make me quit, now.
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I wouldn’t want to be the one repairing a high-pressure steam pipe. It would probably pay well though.


I can think of more dangerous things to have to do, that also would probably pay less.
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The variety also isn’t bad.
*A small automaton like Stergey’s skitters across the wall next to us, pops open a valve, and climbs into a pipe*


Seeing functional robots running around everywhere is a weird sight.
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Not really. It once did, but it became a catch-all eventually for people who weren’t elite or poor, including merchants.


That’s good to hear, honestly.
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