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Don't fret. With these boots, I can fly.
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twist your broken legs if you can hear
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Oh, law. I can't believe he jumped that
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Sir, I know this isn't the time, but are
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they going to put us to the gallows for
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What? No. That ain't how we operate an
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Auntie's choice. Liza, we might be
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looking at a pretty fierce demotion for
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losing half our workforce and getting
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stuck up here, though.
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Demotion to fertilizer.
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No. Now, cease your jawing. This ain't
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the time. Hey, you. You down there.
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Would you mind checking on our fellow?
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Might he have survived the fall?
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I'm pleased not to be the only one
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Not the only one. How did you get
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assigned to a biological commodities
3:00
assessment? No, never mind. That's not
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important. Stranger friend, would you
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per chance be willing to help us? We've
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been stuck a top this machine since IDA,
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one of our new protectorate
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acquisitions, had her gray matter
3:14
scrambled by the height, jumped down,
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and landed right in its gears.
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I can't fathom no sensible motive. She
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joined us shortly after auntie liberated
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her with the freedom of meritocracy, and
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she seemed happy enough.
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Were you not listening? She said she'd
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always be a loyal subject. It was part
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of the endless inculcation we endured in
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the protectorate. It can prove
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insurmountable for some.
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The notion that she'd sacrifice herself
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even after seeing the vast possibilities
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in staying alive and climbing the
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corporate ladder, it's just impossible
4:03
The reason Jackson tried using those
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plasma thruster boots was to gather a
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piece of machinery we'd spotted on a
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little table halfway up the spire.
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It's a drive overloader. If we install
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it, we can push the platform's arm hard
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enough to well to grind old Ida out of
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Though the power of that overloader will
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deluge the system and well overload the
4:24
drive and burn it out all permanent. But
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desperate times and all that. So, if you
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were to use them boots to bound up the
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spire and deliver the overloader to us,
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we'd avoid the tragic fate of our two
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Thank the sovereign. Uh, thank you,
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We are eagerly anticipating a long life
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utterly absent of starvation.
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Oh, you're by our prop of breathesium
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They're found in bandages and burn
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That's it. It was that easy.
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Oh, thank the law. I never thought of
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myself as a vertigenous sort, but being
10:28
trapped 100 meters in the air will make
10:32
I mirror that sentiment to be certain.
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In fact, Auntie will have to pay me
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triple if heights are to be involved.
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And isn't it grand to be in a system
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that allows me that freedom?
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I agree with Liza. I'm inclined to keep
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a few paces from farming equipment from
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now on. Here's your reward for
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evacuating us with all our parts intact.
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I perhaps ain't as a wash in currency as
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I'd prefer. So, you can have my helmet
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as well. It was useful for identifying
11:08
crops we'd missed in our harvest, but to
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be honest, I'd like a little distance
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from plants for a spell.
