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The jersey is already sold out unfortunately.

I'll start with a one from LtW.

>!It turned to look at him again. There was an expression of terrible sorrow on its face. ∼ You’ve wanted to die since you realised you’d lost her, since you recovered from your wounds, haven’t you, Quilan?!<

>!∼ Yes.!<

>!It nodded. ∼ Me too.!<

>!He knew the story of its twin, and the worlds it had destroyed. He wondered, assuming it was telling the truth, how many lifetimes of regret and loss you could fit into eight hundred years, when you could think, experience and remember with the speed and facility of a Mind.!<

>!∼ What will happen to Chel?!<

>!∼ A handful of individuals - certainly no more - may pay with their lives. Other than that, nothing. It shook its head slowly. ∼ We cannot let you have your balancing souls, Quilan. We will try to reason with the Chelgrian-Puen. It’s tricky territory for us, the Sublimed, but we have contacts.!<

>!It smiled at him. He could see his broad, furred face reflected in the image’s delicate features.!<

>!∼ We still owe you for our mistake. We will do all we can to make amends. This attempt does not absolve us. Nothing has been balanced. It squeezed his hand. He had forgotten they were still holding each other. ∼ I am sorry.!<

>!∼ Sorrow seems a common commodity, doesn’t it?!<

>!∼ I believe the raw material is life, but happily there are other by-products.!<

>!∼ You are not really going to kill yourself, are you?!<

>!∼ Both of us, Quilan.!<

>!∼ Do you really--?!<

>!∼ I am tired, Quilan. I have waited for these memories to lose their force over the years and decades and centuries, but they have not. There are places to go, but either I would not be me when I went there, or I would remain myself and so still have my memories. By waiting for them to drop away all this time I have grown into them, and they into me. We have become each other. There is no way back I consider worth taking.!<

>!It smiled regretfully and squeezed his hand again.!<

>!∼ I’ll be leaving everything in good working order, and in good hands. It’ll be a more-or-less seamless transition, and nobody will suffer or die.!<

>!∼ Won’t people miss you?!<

>!∼ They’ll have another Hub before too long. I’m sure they’ll take to it, too. But I hope they do miss me a little. I hope they do think well of me.!<

>!∼ And you’ll be happy?!<

>!∼ I won’t be happy or unhappy. I won’t be. Neither will you.!<

>!It turned more towards him and held out its other hand.!<

>!∼ Are you ready, Quilan? Will you be my twin in this?!<

>!He took its other hand.!<

>!∼ If you will be my mate.!<

>!The avatar closed its eyes.!<

>!Time seemed to expand, exploding all around him.!<

>!His last thought was that he’d forgotten to ask what had happened to Huyler.!<

>!Light shone in the sky above the Bowl.!< - Look to Windward, 16 - Expiring Light