up and goes back where he came from.) I turned inward and closed. This was turning into a hard lesson for me, not him. I was pretty sure it wouldn’t work and it wasn’t. How do I convey to him the fact that all humans have to spend most of their waking hours working one way or another just to survive, that humans want the same thing and kill each other to get it, that they get so involved in surviving they don’t know when to stop when they have enough, that humans form big clubs they call nations and try to destroy other nations who they think threaten their survival, that the whole thing occupies their thoughts and actions so deeply they forget completely any other existence but physical human … (You’re leaking again, RAM,) BB cut in. (You got it right. I wouldn’t get a percept on any of it. What’s this work stuff? You mean humans kill and eat each other? What do you mean, they forget?) I did the best I could. (Work is what humans do to get money, uh, energy to pay, uh, give to other humans so those humans will give them what they want to satisfy their survival needs.) (Money energy, huh? Must be pretty strong stuff. I have no ident on it.) (You wouldn’t. Only humans have it, and it’s strictly physical. Won’t work anywhere except on physical earth and with other humans. Worse than that, each group of humans, uh, nations …) (The big clubs … we have game clubs in KT-95.) (Yes, the big clubs of humans. Each has its own type of money energy and they trade money.) BB smoothed. (So if I want a deer to eat, or a hut to be in, a cover for my body to be in, I got to give money energy to get it.) (You work, you pay, and you get.) He focused on the cars moving by. (How about those covers? Can you get them for money energy, too?) (That’s all it takes.) (It’s too messed up for me.) BB smoothed completely. (If I had to be human, I would stay away from all the rest of it and just hang around making copies and let it go at that.… What’s so funny?) I was rolling hard and couldn’t keep closed. He blanked. (That takes money energy, too?)