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“From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I  working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?” 
Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life, 2002.

The Script feat. will.i.am — Hall of Fame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBW9SHfxABk

“Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov’d fain, 
But am betroth’d unto your enemy; 
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again, 
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, 
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, 
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.”
John Donne, Batter my heart.

Pink — Boring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuavbmNWBxU

Sporting Samantha wishes Shapeshifter to rebuild her family, before making babies.
Samantha is first daughter of a dragon congruent about her birthing Ferelden twins.

“We want to bring all the light back to what we call a focus. How? If the light always takes the path of least time, then certainly it should not want to go over all these other paths. The only way that the light can be perfectly satisfied to take several adjacent paths is to make those times exactly equal! Otherwise, it would select the one of least time. Therefore the problem of making a focusing system is merely to arrange a device so that it takes the same time for the light to go on all the different paths!”
Richard P. Feynman, Lectures on Physics, Volume 1, Chapter 26 Optics: The Principle of Least Time, Section 4: Applications of Fermat’s principle, 1963. 
[Fermat says ‘adaequalitas’ was borrowed from Diophantus, Volume 11; Diophantus coined the word ‘parisotes’ to refer to an approximate equality.]

Oh I’m sorry, did I break your concentration?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2yNTUNbFIA

Isabela: It’s not about who’s dangerous. It’s about having choices made for you.

“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
Hypatia of Alexandria

Isabela: mother; Anders: father; Merrill: Bethany; Mabari: Carver & herself: Aveline.
Malcolm was murdered by Bethany, not Leandra; Merrill can assassinate Marethari.

Boy Crisis — Dressed To Digress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4fyDnVvbJM&t=14s

“If we arrive at an equation containing on each side the same term but with different coefficients, we must take equals from equals until we get one term equal to another term. But, if there are on one or on both sides negative terms, the deficiencies must be added on both sides until all the terms on both sides are positive. Then we must take equals from equals until one term is left on each side. 
This should be the object aimed at in framing the hypotheses of propositions, that is to say, to reduce the equations, if possible, until one term is left equated to one term.”
Diophantos, quoted by Thomas Little Heath, Diophantos of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra, 1885, p. 7. 

If Anders & Merrill vanish, Samantha & Bethany make out with Isabela & her lover.
Flemeth & Dragon had failed in translation but with a red shard Sandal could help.