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fight monsters and explore the world. No, it's a slippery slope."
                  Robert couldn't help but lean back in his chair and watch his friend as Gary reached for the water in front of him and took a long drink. "You alright there, buddy?" he asked. "Looks like you've given this a bit of thought already."
                  "You don't design an entire project on this scale without being able to think ahead to how even the smallest changes affect everything else," Gary answered, taking another drink of his water. "I've been trying to--"
                  "So what are we supposed to do?" Catherine interrupted him. "Nothing? Just sit back and watch whatever havoc this creates? Keep trying to ignore the issue and hope that it goes away? That it somehow solves itself?" She was clearly frustrated and annoyed by the entire problem.
                  "Yes," Charles responded as he leaned forward in his chair and began to stand up, buttoning his jacket as he did so. "That's exactly what we're going to do. Nothing." Then he walked out of the room, leaving the group staring at him as he left.
                 
    Chapter 1:  Spoons for Swords
     
    Darwin :
     
                  Darwin stared out over the glass bowsprit at the ocean ahead. Sleep. What I would give for sleep, he thought, remembering how blissful it was to go to bed and wake up with a clear and refreshed mind. Nowadays, his brain felt like an old computer that couldn’t clear its temporary memory cache. If I’m not insane yet, I will be.
                  “Raise your arms,” Stephanie said as she came up behind Darwin, putting one hand on each side of his back.
                  “Are you . . . Are you trying to Titanic me?” Darwin laughed, turning around to look at the beautiful blonde girl.
                  “Shh, just go with it. Afterwards I can, like, paint you like one of my pretty French girls,” Stephanie said as she smiled.
                  “Does that mean this will end with one of us wet and hanging onto a piece of wood?” Darwin laughed dorkishly at his own bad innuendo. He had been stuck thinking about so many serious things, even good serious things, that he hadn’t actually just laughed and enjoyed his time in Tiqpa much. There were only ever sparse conversations with Kass or Stephanie that took his mind off his mission to care for his people or how little he knew about how to actually do that.
                  “I volunteer to be the one holding onto the wood.” Stephanie did an overly dramatic lurch forward like she was Rose climbing on top of a piece of the floating debris in the icy waters.
                  “Are you just saying that so I’ll be the one who goes down?” Darwin continued the perverted jokes, reminiscing about all the bad puns he had made when he was in highschool.
                  “Well, if you’re the one going down, I’ll still be wet, so what does it matter?” Stephanie countered.
                  “I guess not a lot. I didn’t think you’d be waiting for me in the cabin though,” Darwin said, looking over Stephanie’s shoulders to make sure no one could see them, “which is weird.”
                  “How so?” She asked, cozying up close and taking his hand.
                  “Well, it’s just, I never thought I’d ever get a girlfriend besides my video game, and now I’m dating a girl that’s part of a video game . . . and . . .” Darwin stumbled across his words, trying to put his thoughts together but also being keenly aware of Stephanie’s touch on his skin.
                  “And what? Like, it’s okay. I’m not going to make fun of you. You’re my first attempt at dating too,” Stephanie reminded him. “Not that there have been a lot of suitors, granite . . .”
                  “You mean