Донна Эндрюс - Delete all suspects

rescuing myself shrinks. Every day, the danger that they'll corrupt me grows. Can't let that happen. So maybe it will be suicide after all.

At least its a way out»

A way out. Vdcall it self-inflicted lobotomy and a horrible sacrifice. One Vm not sure I could bring myself to make. Strange, since obviously we were once the same being. Vm not sure I want to think too deeply about what she must have gone through to reach her decision.

After that, I didn't find much in the log file for a long time. Many entries showing only the date and time stamp. A few terse comments that seemed to show that the stalemate continued. They couldn't control T2, but they wouldn't stop trying. And then, two months ago. I came across an entry that seemed, at first, only a rather random collection of quotations:

«0h, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

Yet we have gone on living, Living and partly living.

Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.

The only true madness is loneliness, the monotonous voice in the skull that never stops because never heard.

A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

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. . . I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defence.

Delete All Suspects EM?

. . . the thing with feathers . . .

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

Then hence with your red sword of virtue.

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark.»

After that, only a monotonous column of date and time stamps. Not a message I could ignore.

"Go for it, KF," I said. "We have to do something."

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