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| - and found a response. Ancient, poorly functioning communication and support systems in the Sky Temple heard her, read her, answered her. GEORGE took her, embraced all that she was, answered every question she had, accepted her into its silicon and copper self … but it was too little too late. Not even it was enough to sustain her failing mind, as the communication network bounced her degrading mind in vain between its hubs and data centres. | - and found a response. Ancient, poorly functioning communication and support systems in the Sky Temple heard her, read her, answered her. GEORGE took her, embraced all that she was, answered every question she had, accepted her into its silicon and copper self … but it was too little too late. Not even it was enough to sustain her failing mind, as the communication network bounced her degrading mind in vain between its hubs and data centres. | ||
| - | Rafi Sadiković died on the floor of her room in the Night Temple. | + | Rafi Sadiković died on the floor of her room in the Night Temple.\\ |
| - | Rafi Sadiković died in communion with GEORGE, | + | Rafi Sadiković died in communion with GEORGE. |
| But she was always so much more than that. | But she was always so much more than that. | ||
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| Because broadcasts aren't point-to-point. As the Redemption Chip took her dying thoughts and broadcast and rebroadcast them back to GEORGE, the signal spread out across the Crystadyne network she'd dedicated her life to creating, and through the Sky Temple. | Because broadcasts aren't point-to-point. As the Redemption Chip took her dying thoughts and broadcast and rebroadcast them back to GEORGE, the signal spread out across the Crystadyne network she'd dedicated her life to creating, and through the Sky Temple. | ||
| - | What was left of Rafi - an echo? - a copy of her dying thoughts? - her spirit? - was routed through the biggest broadcast antenna on Monument, magnified by a reactor strong enough to break a world, and transmitted in every direction into the waiting empty heavens above. | + | What was left of Rafi - a fleeting impression of a dying woman's panic? an angel? a message to other worlds? - was routed through the biggest broadcast antenna on Monument, magnified by a reactor strong enough to break a world, and transmitted in every direction into the waiting empty heavens above. |
| She can’t think in this form. She can’t act, can’t choose, can’t feel - can barely be. Some would say it was barely her, just an echo, a copy of her dying thoughts - but it’s still her. | She can’t think in this form. She can’t act, can’t choose, can’t feel - can barely be. Some would say it was barely her, just an echo, a copy of her dying thoughts - but it’s still her. | ||
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