Wonderful, isn't it?" "Wonderful and a little spooky." "Like all the best things in the universe. - Alastair Reynolds

Rashmika could tell when anyone around her was lying. But seeing through her own deceptions was another matter entirely.

You owned the world when you were a young man, felt it like it was fashioned to fit your hands. You could do anything with it you wanted to. But the world kept changing, and sooner or later there came a day when it didn’t feel like you were the one the world was interested in any more.

Don't you agree with me?" "On some distant theoretical level, just possibly.