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atomic_robo, thorn in the side of Sir Reginald, has a story up about the two of them.

Here's the first little bit, as a teaser for you:

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"All these years, and he still doesn’t look old. Never has. He does look like hell though. There’s a pale yellow-ish quality to his skin and eyes. The slightest effort seems to involve a great deal of willpower that gets tied up in bureaucracy before finally getting the body’s permission to move.

He breathes in and you can hear the air rattling around in his chest. He speaks slowly and purposefully. “Well, I suppose we knew this day would come.”

“Honestly, I was starting to wonder what took so long,” I say.

He makes a pained expression. It’s a smile, but everything he does is pained at this point. “Finally got tired of putting up with your incompetence.”

“Just hurry up and die, will ya? I’ve got to give a presentation to some NASA folks in an hour. Opening with, ‘Sorry I’m late, had to watch a lonely old man die,’ will be a tremendous downer and sad people don’t write billion dollar checks.”"

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GO AND READ THE REST...  THIS ENTRY AT atomic_robo HAS BEEN RECLASSIFIED AS RESTRICTED BY THE SUB-GOVERNOR OF THE UNITED OTHERSTATES. WE APOLOGIZE, RATHER INSINCERELY, FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.

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