"Robert Reed - Like Need Deserve" - читать интересную книгу автора (Reed Robert)

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"Hello?"
"Hello to you, madam."

"Do you remember me?"

A pause. Then, "Of course."

"You don't remember me. Do you?"

"Madam, what I recall is a creature very much different from who you are today."

"True enough, I guess."

"How have you been?"

"Bored."

"Boredom is an underappreciated emotion. If you ask me."

"Don't preach to me. I spent the first thirty years of my life in the same little room, with the same dull pseudosouls, waiting for a boring man to come visit us and tell us his awful jokes."

"But you laughed at his jokes."

"I laughed at him. Sometimes. But not as loudly as the others."

"Every audience demands its skeptic."

"Well, that was me."

"And how have you been, madam?"

"I accepted emancipation. Seven years ago, with the Act of 2106, I chose to walk out of that room."

"Congratulations to you."

Silence.

"And what can I do for you today, madam? Or is this just an impromptu and delightful little social call?"

"I've changed, you know. Since the day I walked out of that ugly little room, I've grown in all sorts of ways."