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"To be rightly happy a man must needs inherit from his father."
Menander, Fragment 582 [Lani Reed: epikleros for twin's pair.]

Suvi: Kett ships, a dozen—no, more!

Sarah Jeffery [Descendants 3] — Queen of Mean 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrojygUCDH8

Peebee & Suvi steer Tempest to Archon. Cora & Liam yet hold aloof. Vetra leaps to Kallo's assistance & Drack weighs in behind them.

SAM: They are scanning us, Pathfinder.
Ryder: Well, scan them back!

"The effect of this will be to give our orphan children a sort of second birth.... And luckily enough, I fancy, we have described 
already how after death the souls of the departed enjoy certain powers which they use to take an interest in human affairs. 
The stories which tell of these things are true."
Plato, The Laws, 926e-927.

The Heavy [Borderlands 2] — How You Like Me Now 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB0-G0Hn_4k

"Scythian Archer:— (He speaks with a heavy foreign accent) You shall stay here in the open air to wail.
Mnesilochus:— Archer, I adjure you.
Scythian Archer:— You're wasting your breath.
Mnesilochus:— Loosen the wedge a little.
Scythian Archer:— Aye, certainly.
Mnesilochus:— Oh! by the gods! why, you are driving it in tighter.
Scythian Archer:— Is that enough?
Mnesilochus:— Oh! Oh! Ow! Ow! May the plague take you!
Scythian Archer:— Silence! you cursed old wretch! I am going to get a mat to lie upon, so as to watch you close at hand at my ease."
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, l. 999-1007 [The man doesn't break his word. I just saw Perseus, & turn myself in Andromeda.]

The Initiative intercepted bits of commands, shielding Milky Way. Transhuman Alec Ryder had cybernetic memory: awkward truths.

"Petty stuff, well that is interesting, I hope that does not include me as a side note to his busy and complicated life."
Samantha Lewinski, Rise of Samantha: Introducing the Theory of Baggage, 2015.