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[He's different today. She doesn't expect warmth from him, but he is more distant than usual, not even greeting her. Has he already heard something?
She enters the room and fiddles with her communicator, trying to figure out how to broach this topic with him.]
What do you know of the Human Instrumentality Project? [In other words, what has he heard over the network? Since she knows he has listened to her conversations before.]