'Don't let them make you afraid to speak your mind,' she says quietly. 'You can be stronger than that.'
42 as the answer puzzles her, comedy or not. 'What's the ultimate question in this series? Six by seven?' Tayrey shakes her head. 'I'm guessing you don't actually have galactic hitchhikers. Out my way a confident person might get to travel a fair distance on the cargo ships if they were willing to earn their keep. But this-' she points to her own number, '-isn't so funny. It's more of an old superstition. Shareholder 27 always suffers misfortune. Or dies. I think it happened a couple of times for real and then the holovids picked it up and spread it, so it's just a number that superstitious people avoid at all cost.'
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42 as the answer puzzles her, comedy or not. 'What's the ultimate question in this series? Six by seven?' Tayrey shakes her head. 'I'm guessing you don't actually have galactic hitchhikers. Out my way a confident person might get to travel a fair distance on the cargo ships if they were willing to earn their keep. But this-' she points to her own number, '-isn't so funny. It's more of an old superstition. Shareholder 27 always suffers misfortune. Or dies. I think it happened a couple of times for real and then the holovids picked it up and spread it, so it's just a number that superstitious people avoid at all cost.'