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=== Interlude: Despair=== If you live for a thousand years you will never forget the day they brought you $VOKI8's body, shrouded in planetcloth, burnt almost beyond recognition. "How did this happen?" Gruffly, not allowing the distress to creep into your voice. "Cooked by a flame gun. $ENEMYNAME6's men. Tried to surrender but they flamed her anyway. Don't like those worms, the $ENEMYFACT7." "I see." Your most loyal servant, butchered by $ENEMYFACT7. And only now do you realize that, subconsciously, you'd been grooming $VOKI8 as your heir apparent, the student who would one day replace you as master. For all the gene splicing and longevity treatments, all the manmade miracles of M.Y. $NUM0, death remains as final, as capricious, and as desolate as it has ever been. No matter what happens now, no matter what journey of wonder humankind now embarks upon, $VOKI8 will never see it, never know the end of it. And no matter how many centuries you continue to cheat eternity, you will never again have the company of your student and friend. And you cannot cheat eternity forever. Despair grips you, and you shudder. But life is seductive in its rhythms and rituals. Our bodies do not like to be reminded of their own impending deaths, and will not allow us to dwell on the subject. Soon enough the heat and the cold, the hard and the soft, the taste of the wine, the press of a lover's arms, all will come flooding back to soothe us, to fill us again with a sense of purpose. And in the meantime there are a number of, ah, items to be attended to: "Bring me Major Joaquim! I want $BASENAME5 disassembled piece by piece. And have this body removed to the tanks--it is nothing to me now."
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