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"Still to our gains our chief respect is had ; Reward it is that makes us good or bad." 
Robert Herrick, Rewards, Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine, 1648, p. 110.

At the beginning 9S was offered already his full reward that he completely disdained.

Simon Field — Shake The Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5OY--Cdzbc

"He seems to me equal to gods that man
whoever he is who opposite you
sits and listens close
to your sweet speaking
and lovely laughing—oh it
puts the heart in my chest on wings
for when I look at you, even a moment, no speaking
is left in me
no: tongue breaks and thin
fire is racing under skin
and in eyes no sight and drumming
fills ears
and cold sweat holds me and shaking
grips me all, greener than grass
I am and dead—or almost
I seem to me.
But all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty"
Sappho of Lesbos, Fragment 31, trans. Anne Carson.

A2 will gather roses in winter to embellish those memories of 2B in her sword. Fighting Nines in desert reclaims 2B internal memories.