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...somehow I thought you traveled alone, though?

Hermes is my motorrad partner.

Oh, I see... or—that sounds like a local term for an astromech? I know they can get erratic if you let them develop a personality.

All motorrads have a personality.

...maybe it's not what I'm thinking of, then.

Though, I know a lot of people get superstitious about machines developing a self, I've just never believed in it.

I couldn't believe it at first either, but it was a man repairing a motorrad who told me about it. When you travel with a motorrad, you make a pact - a motorrad can move quickly, but it can't go anywhere without balance. So as the rider, you provide balance, and the motorrad provides speed, and both of you get to enjoy traveling more.

It would be hard to make a pact like that if the motorrad couldn't talk.

...I guess in a way it's like what happens everywhere with vehicles, except you say it out loud.

It would be rude not to, wouldn't it?

Well, I guess, er—if something can talk. That's mostly an academic question when it's just a machine, though.

Academic how?

...that's another one of those idioms you don't know, huh. That's like saying—"well, it's not a practical consideration," I guess?

Because it doesn't change things much if you know it or not?

Essentially—or it's not a problem most people would encounter in real life.

In other worlds, I suppose.

So just in case, always double-check with your vehicle about whether it wants to form a contract?

No, I think at this point we're both comfortable with the terms to leave it unsaid. Besides that... I think we do have an understanding that if we really had to, I could find another motorrad, and he could find another rider.

In the end, we will both prioritize ourselves.

So it's... sort of like a symbiosis, you could say.

It sounds a little... I don't know. Detached, to put it like that, though?

Well... I think it is, in a lot of ways?

Long as it works out, I guess...

...d'you think that's been long enough?

Even if it wasn't, I wouldn't be mad if you put me down at this point.

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