“None of you know him like I do.  It’s not a judgment.  Of course you wouldn’t.  To me, he’s just Elliott, my big brother.  He’s kind and gentle, and always trying to act stronger than he feels.  He’s been condemning me to things my whole life.  Homework, chores, happiness, love, and hope.  You people worship him as if he’s a god, but I tell you, if there is anything that brings him closer to godhood, it’s his human capacity for love.” – Sarah Dawning, Pandora of the New Dawning

Sarah was in her apartment, not the one she inhabited as an apprentice within the Holy Order of Archivists, living on her own with her only company being the occasional boyfriend or girlfriend, or her My_Cherub A.I....

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