But what good's abundance if nobody can experience it? - Karl Schroeder

She looked up at the towering wisdom and felt a sudden love for it—as if these books were family.

It's time to abandon the plans of the entity that enslaved me all these centuries, he said. And time to start making my own.

They see something they may never have seen before: a normal human reacting normally to a traumatic situation. Livia, these people have been insulated within inscape their whole lives. They have lived in a world where their merest whim could be granted with a thought. Reality has always conformed to their desires—never the other way around. Now they find themselves in a world that obstinately refuses to change itself to fit their imagination. They literally have no idea how to respond.