Taro's laugh caught in his throat. He asked, half in jest, "Remember what?"

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There were rules. The AIWA would not speak of the present; it refused to name living people unless they spoke into it first. It clung to the past and the near past, to things that had already crossed into story. And sometimes, at three in the morning, it would fall silent for hours, as if the night required privacy.

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He clicked "Decline."

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