” Blackett took care to allow no trace of censure to color his words. “I wasn’t really a soldier. That’s the real problem. That might beg the question of why an advanced civilization would do that.
”“I’m sorry about that. ”I took a sip. Little Bill came down to the edge of the bank. “Transcended machines from other branches of reality—nothing that ever originated on Earth, or even in what we’d recognise as the known universe.
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