They've been at this a good long while -- the Boston sky has gotten dark.
Deliberately avoiding the talk about whether to erase Ilsa's Master's name? Or just genuinely too busy talking about other things?
I haven't done a single tweak for the Master's Edition this whole chapter, but I did one here. There was a plain featureless gradient outside the windows; I added some buildings, and some stars.
Chatter: —- — reconfigured — — —– — have the code —- — — —– Master —– —
Patrick: You’re considering erasing the Master from Ilsa’s contract, aren’t you.
Cohen: What? No!
Bianca: Of course not!
Cohen: Nothing like that. We would never!
. . . would we?
Miranda: . . . That depends.
Bianca: On what?!
Poe (thinking): Master always has to be so dramatic.
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Why can’t it be both? People are complicated and frequently don’t consciously understand their own priorities enough to distinguish how much the priorities of other things were elevated to avoid talking about the unpleasantness. Or in some cases, it could work the other way – sometimes people elevate in their minds the priority of something because they know it won’t be pleasant and they’ll thus be averse to talking about it. As such, they need it higher priority to get it out at all. So maybe they felt like they were putting it off even if there were other topics legitimately more urgent.