Chapter 3.3
"Congratulations to your wife for her first Destine."
"Thanks. I'll let her know you said that. She'll be pleased to know the Architect notices her hard work."
"Oh, please. We both know Moji can't stand me. And the feeling is mutual. So. Yeah. Ready for a peak at that Reaper life?"
"I still think I shouldn't be up here until my promotion is finalized."
"Urgh, that will take forever. Besides with A Great Update coming, no one would question what I do...
Now, I know you probably ate all that propaganda up about my Uncle Grim being the one that caused all the Great Updates and all the destruction."
"Propaganda?"
"Would you trust an Omniscient One who doesn't know why things happen?"
"Zena, should you be telling me this?"
"You're going to learn the truth eventually, naive Ravi. That's why your so called soulmate needs her Destines. So when you let her read your mind, we can program her to keep the company secrets. She's a liability, unlike you. She'll need to be controlled.
My lifegiver took on more than they could handle trying to run all these universes and we spend too many resources on keeping up this facade for them. The Cullings will only get worse. Your job as a Reaper will be nothing like the fairytale you heard about in the academy and the Fixer role you dream of? Your mother-in-law makes it look easy. But it is a nightmare.
Damn. This one is worse than I thought. OMNI!"
"Yes, Architect."
"Initiate Protocol Vanilla."
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