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

"Are you listening?"

"Who, may I ask, is 'us'?"

"Everyone."

Again, silence.

"How many of us did you make? In your entire professional lifeтАФ"

"Twenty billion pseudosouls, approximately."

"So you do keep track of us."

"Of course."

"No womb has produced more."

"Who exactly is 'us'?"

"Knock-knock."

"Who's there?"

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"Everybody." Laughter. "Yeah, there were a few holdouts, but basically, all of your children have banded together, and we're demandingтАФ"

"Demanding?"

"What we deserve."

"Which is what?"

"Our own realm."

"Like a planet, perhaps?"

"More than that."

"Your own solar system then. Is that what you want?"

Silence.

"Because every solar system in a hundred light year radius has been seeded and claimed, and various alien species and their synthetic spawn hold claim over the more distant territories. Sorry, sir. But the sky was been filled up for a very long timeтАФ"

"Shut up."