It was a mild winter__ evening in __app__ Saloon and Speakeasy_, in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of the city. (The S.O.D.s believed in crime management.) Timaset Skooch leaned back in the aluminum framed chair, checking his cards carefully while wearing his best poker face. Across the table from him sat Jonn Deire, a large man who was trying very hard to out-poker face him and who didn__ enjoy jokes about his name much.
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No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.
But it__ a hundred and twelve years old!_ He protested.__he still works pretty good._ Deire maintained. __tardrive gets a mite twitchy at warp 4, but that__ just a dodgy plasma injector.