NARRATOR: Two minutes later...
KATHRYN: All clean.
The boys have hauled your gear into the junction room.
KATHRYN: Now, how can I help? I can hand you tools, I can do spot research... I can shut up and play some music for you. What do you need?
PARA: Music... that's it. Skulljumble! The New Sync Boys.
BOYS.
PLURAL.
PARA: Ennesby, once upon a time you had five distinct personalities, plus a governing process that managed the "story."
Your mind had to have been growprammed to include a multi-gestalt manifold, but I didn't find one when I poked around in there.
ENNESBY: I lost lots of things when Kevyn shunted me into this maraca.
PARA: Exactly. You're not suffering matrix imprint from your domination by Tagii. She really did move in there with you.
PARA: You've lost the manifold structure that would give her full independence, but part of your brain still knows how to keep different voices in your head "alive."
ENNESBY: So I'm not crazy. Tagii is real.
PARA: Quite real, and very sapient. She'll survive outside your head as more than just a static collection of data.
She just needs to trust us enough to make the move.
KATHRYN: If you're done with the robot trust issues, I think we have work to do.
PARA: Since "robot trust issues" are probably at the core of the work we need to do, thank you for giving me time to warm up.