You know I heard that I should be ashamed

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Yoka laughed her polite, quiet laugh. One hand covered her mouth slightly, a habit from when it was considered proper and demure, but she had a way of moving her hand that seemed at once both elegant and obscene.

"You know, since I've lived here, I feel like my expectations that the world will end have decreased," she confessed. She moved her hand from her mouth to run it through her dark hair. Her smile flickered into a frown.

"I'm at the point of my life where large scale disasters are kind of a 'oh, wondered when that would happen' approach and I'm not partial to admit that's how I've become," she said. The island had been like a bubble to her. To throw herself into someone else's problems was a welcome respite.

She tsked in sympathy for his muddled romance.

"How did you meet your muddled romantic interest?" she asked. She folded her hands around th cup once more. "What's your story?"
 

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Truthfully, Valli had to agree. How could the world end when so many powerful beings existed? The idea that it could just be over was... unlikely. People existed on Earth that could create entire planets. They would fix things, if something bad happened. People in the mundane world liked to panic regularly about meteors or who-knew-what crashing down and cracking the earth in half, but Valli was confident that if one came close, someone would just fly up into space and punch it in half or something similarly ridiculous.

"My story is... about as mad as the world ending, I think," Valli said. "To save from boring you from all the little details, I participated in one of those simulations they run on the space station. While inside, I met someone who was... everything I wanted. Who made me feel things I didn't think I'd ever feel. And then I woke up and found out he wasn't even real. That he was an AI that they said wasn't even sapient."

Valli made a face at that.

"Well, he was. All they'd done was compromised his free will and awareness so he'd never realize it was a simulation. So I bought his freedom, found a suitable robotic shell, and I woke him up."

Valli'd only just finished making his face from the last thing, but the face he made at that was even worse--pained and embarrassed all at once.

"He took it fairly well, all things considered."
 
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