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Your name is now <span class="mu-s">Kima's Mom</span>, oh wait, <span class="mu-s">Shjomae</span>, that's your real name. You sometimes forget. You're always “mom” or “my wonderful wife” or “Misses-Acting-Supreme” nowadays. And you just got done consoling your very sad daughter- a bit of native Jaxtian herbal remedy for stress and to cause drowsiness, quiet that mind, a shoulder to cry on, and it's back to business as usual.
You don't know <span class="mu-i">who</span> decided to go out of their way to break your daughter's heart, but you <span class="mu-s">know</span> who it wasn't! That video is a forgery! Sure, AI video is indistinguishable for the real thing and it seems like something any old Alpha jock dickhead teenager might say; but you know it wasn't <span class="mu-i">Radjo</span>. Call it feminine intuition.
It also, almost certainly, wasn't your husband. Your husband is, of course, a genius- and highly protective of Kima. But you're almost sure it wasn't him. Why? Because he's a real genius alright- except with <span class="mu-i">everything</span> to do with relationships! Mister infallible “big man in charge better run the Hegemony until my big brother gets back” would just tell Kima to stay away from Radjo and then expect his will to be carried out. Stupid man. You telling a teenage girl <span class="mu-i">not</span> to do something is the fastest way to get her to do it!
<span class="mu-s">Radjo</span> was always a kind, sweet kid. You know he would never say that and mean it. And yes, every creep and pervert started out as an innocent little boy, sure, but Radjo was always different. When your daughter could breeze past the other boys- they scolded her and got upset, or they laughed at her when she failed. Radjo never did. You were scared half to death when your daughter came home late one night playing out on the estate- she sprained her ankle. And which prepubescent little boy <span class="mu-i">carried</span> her almost a mile back home? Radjo, that's who. Somebody is playing games, and you aren't going to stand for it. It's time for <span class="mu-i">Mommy</span> to put her foot down!
You go to Hwat's private office. It's the time of night where everyone in the family would be asleep- except for you. Here is one of the Hegemony's most powerful AI cores and AI network access panels- vital to your husband's current work and installed the moment he accepted the role of acting Supreme.
