NARRATOR: Neosynchronicity, VIP Berth...
BUNNI: How are you feeling today, Meld-minister?
MAIA: Quite well, Doctor. And please, just call me Maia.
BUNNI: So the personality of Maiamumla Well-flesher is still at the fore?
MAIA: You really are worried about me, aren't you?
BUNNI: You have three sets of memories, Maia. Humans have historically suffered from severe mental breaks trying to do what you're doing.
MAIA: Doctor, the ribbon of ancient Oafan memories I've absorbed is just a partial personality. You should think of Anuaiyya's memories as a journal I recall reading.
BUNNI: Yes, but you've also got a slice of hive-mind in there, and it's connected to an active hypernode.
MAIA: The hive-mind of Utchi-Skafatka is not unlike if you had one of those bone-phone things, always listening, and sometimes offering advice.
BUNNI: So, "annoying."
MAIA: Utchi would like me to remind you that she is always listening, and that she is among the only natural heirs to the vast wealth Anuaiyya's people left behind.
BUNNI: Noted. But that does raise a pertinent question:
Could you have chosen not to relay that message?
MAIA: We'll never know, because that's not what I chose.