"It does make some sense that someone so completely ruled by thinking would want to live without thinking. But he was probably presented with the idea much earlier than I was, more used to the idea... I just can't seem to wrap my mind around the idea of living so totally in the moment." He shrugged and answered, "all of the above? They both involve having to interact with others, something I have no real experience with, the whole idea is out of the realm of comfortable situations for me."

Mr. Universe found himself completely mesmerised by Camilla's next speech; he shook his head and tried to analyze what she had said in order to respond. "Well, civilization may be an artifice, but it does have a point, it is a useful artifice. But a program as fate... I don't really see the analogy there, I'd appreciate it if you could explain that a bit more clearly." He swallowed hard and tried not to twitch and look away during his next comment. "I'm not really sure if it is love. I mean, an argument can be made that first love is usually more like infatuation. It's not like it's not love at all, it's just a different degree, too strong and more capricious in most cases." He took a slow breath and finished his statement, "but the attachment with Lenore; it's love in more than one form. She's my first love, and my wife, but she's also my creation... it's all kind of jumbled in my head now that I'm away from her." He sighed lightly and said, "the whole thing feels so strange now that I'm out of my home and talking with people, some of whom just don't understand at all."