“You’re leaving again.” Wonsul, like any AI, does not have involuntary expressions. What he shows now is what he wants Benzaiten to see, and it is a cartography of grief, of things unsaid or which have already been said but which remain inconclusive. Questions that remain, permanently, without answers. To which Benzaiten smiles. “No need to be like that, my most excellent friend, my finest partner in all things had I not been built for solitude. We’ll meet again and again—we have so much time—and every reunion will be sweet. But now we must settle matters, and resolve that which so profoundly
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