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"That, Match, is the wrong question." He tuned the observation room to track a single tumbling mirror. In life, the sail had been as wide as the space between a world and it's moon; in death, the rigging had collapsed into a thistle of spinmetal and glint. "What you should ask is why I am so glad they died!" | "That, Match, is the wrong question." He tuned the observation room to track a single tumbling mirror. In life, the sail had been as wide as the space between a world and it's moon; in death, the rigging had collapsed into a thistle of spinmetal and glint. "What you should ask is why I am so glad they died!" | ||
I could not imagine, and I admitted it. "These beings were much like us. They did not [[Vex|travel through time]] or lacerate the universe and crawl into the wounds or [[Fallen|yearn for the patronage of any old machine]]… they were creatures of material ambition, of physics, of life. If they failed, it is an omen of death for us." | I could not imagine, and I admitted it. "These beings were much like us. They did not [[Vex|travel through time]] or [[Hive|lacerate the universe and crawl into the wounds]] or [[Fallen|yearn for the patronage of any old machine]]… they were creatures of material ambition, of physics, of life. If they failed, it is an omen of death for us." | ||
"Precisely," Calus said, with wry generosity. "They were grand once. They thought, very briefly, that they would live forever. And they were wrong. We would be very ungrateful to refuse the lesson, wouldn't we?" | "Precisely," Calus said, with wry generosity. "They were grand once. They thought, very briefly, that they would live forever. And they were wrong. We would be very ungrateful to refuse the lesson, wouldn't we?" | ||