Note388
What would Clavain know?
Note389
Don’t be silly, Ilia.
Note390
I know what you’re trying to do, Ilia.
Note391
And it won’t work. You don’t seriously imagine I’m that easily manipulated, do you? That pliant? That ridiculously childlike?
Note392
You’re dying, aren’t you?
Note393
I can tell a lot more about you than you can about me, Ilia.
Note394
I won’t help you.
Note395
I can’t. You’re right. The code is at root level. There’s nothing I can do about it.
Note396
It was nothing. Just talk.
Note397
I don’t know, Clavain.
Note398
But you know precisely what the alternative is, Clavain. Absolute extinction.
Note399
I only know what it showed me. It’s not my job to choose, Clavain. Not my job to show you what you should do. I just thought you ought to be told.
Note400
What are you going to do, Clavain?
Note401
Clavain…
