[Alright, she says, and Natsuno accepts that with a nod of his own. Moving on.
There's a pause before he replies, because he assumed that was the end of the story, and he has to backtrack to recall who A.L.I.E is. It says something about Clarke's story, that he almost forgot the AI who destroyed Earth because there were "too many people." Finally he replies flatly:]
...Hivemind utopia.
[Come on, you can't bring that up and expect he wouldn't want to hear - ]
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There's a pause before he replies, because he assumed that was the end of the story, and he has to backtrack to recall who A.L.I.E is. It says something about Clarke's story, that he almost forgot the AI who destroyed Earth because there were "too many people." Finally he replies flatly:]
...Hivemind utopia.
[Come on, you can't bring that up and expect he wouldn't want to hear - ]