Epic lines

There are lots of times in Rome's Revolution that I like the characters to spout epic lines in passing. Here are some examples:

After Rome expressed her admiration on how he came up with ideas, Rei once said: “Well, I realize my people destroyed the world and killed practically everybody in it. But I guess we have our moments.”

After Rei and Rome were on their way to Deucado, they were celebrating Rome's one month anniversary of being Cesdiud. Rei asked her how she felt about being alone inside her head. She said, “Do you mean other than losing instantaneous access to the sum total of all human knowledge?”

One time, Rei and MINIMCOM had this little conversation:

“Preliminary analysis of metabolic intake and efflux indicates that Rome’s integral rating has increased by two tenths.”
“What the hell are you talking about?” Rei asked.
“In human terms, she is pregnant,” MINIMCOM replied.

Beneath Kilauea, OMCOM and MASAL had this epic exchange:

“You!” said MASAL, addressing OMCOM. “You digital dolt. Your VIRUS units. I have seen your design. They cannot operate in an oxygen atmosphere.”
“Well, you analog antique, these are different. We had these special ones made just for you,” said OMCOM’s livetar.
“No!” MASAL shouted. “Enough of this nonsense. End them! Both of them,” he ordered the robots.

In The Ark Lords, Rome finally fessed up and told Rei she was bored. To this he replied, “Romey, we killed a Stareater, you singlehandedly brought an Overmind to its knees, stopped a war and we vaporized an insane computer with a volcano. Don’t you think that anything following that is bound to be anti-climactic?”

Finally, in Rome's Evolution, when Rome was inside Paul Chung's head, he kept thinking how hot Rome was. When they got outside, Rome asked Rei if she had a fever. When he said no, she then asked, “Do I radiate more heat than a regular Essessoni?”

It's fun to sneak these lines in and see if anybody notices. I always get a kick out of them. There will be a few new ones in the upcoming novel The Milk Run.