Sophia rubbed her arms, as if she was cold. "I don't feel any different."
Jacob turned to face her. "Where you expecting to feel different?"
She sighed. "I'm not sure what I expected. I was just coming around to the idea that I'm a character in a story, and now there's THREE of me out there."
"Author said the copies of our stories should be kept identical and in sync. It's that whole 'guarding against hardware failure' thing."
"I know - it just hurts my head."
"Hey - you've said you always wanted to copy yourself to get more done!"
She glared at him. "Not helping. Besides, if the copies are kept in sync, we'd just be doing the same job, three times."
"Hmm - good point. I wonder if we could allow the copies to diverge so we could-"
"Still not helping!"
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