A casual dialogue about non-casual subjects

[Chronicron]

"Perhaps", - she shrugged, - "Yet again, speaking about such things... It's pretty new to me. It feels like something very alien, yet very close, almost as if I didn't live the life as I could or should have. But what happened - happened. " She pondered for a moment and then looked back at Sun with a brief smile. "You should visit the Elysium one day. It has all sorts of entertainment. Restaurants, pools, meditation chambers... We even have a holographic opera. I also think you know Julius, a captain who decided to stay with me after I left the Core." She dipped a cookie into her cup and took a small bite. Chocolate chips made the tea taste less tender, although now it was too sweet for her own taste. (Damn it, it's way harder to make stuff by yourself when you had someone else preparing it for you for your entire life. Without telling you how.)

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