[ What's the point of being an off-brand Newtype if you can't figure out that a talker going quiet means feelings? Rau's lips curve into a smile. ]
Of course, you think there must be a "future."
[ Rau can do existential banter while pulling on pants, what a multi-tasker. He starts toweling his hair rather than putting a shirt on, though, so Gil will get the benefit of another minute or two of looking at him shirtless -- and the marks he left down Rau's neck. ]
And if we can only wander through old memories?
[ The thing is, Mendel isn't a bad place to test a "future." If there is room for innovation and progress and change, it will be here, at this locus of humanity's dreams. If there is life after death, they will find viable embryos offered up by desperately hopefully parents. And if everything is frozen and unmoving, only a photograph of a place -- well, then they will have learned something. ]
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Of course, you think there must be a "future."
[ Rau can do existential banter while pulling on pants, what a multi-tasker. He starts toweling his hair rather than putting a shirt on, though, so Gil will get the benefit of another minute or two of looking at him shirtless -- and the marks he left down Rau's neck. ]
And if we can only wander through old memories?
[ The thing is, Mendel isn't a bad place to test a "future." If there is room for innovation and progress and change, it will be here, at this locus of humanity's dreams. If there is life after death, they will find viable embryos offered up by desperately hopefully parents. And if everything is frozen and unmoving, only a photograph of a place -- well, then they will have learned something. ]