"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only testing well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I'd found attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a continent containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty.  Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their special emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical tech for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time being medical techs, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on just about every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more name recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which is when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the hypothetical Bad Corrupt Governance Military and gotten his hypothetical life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was allegedly your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only testing well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a continent containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty.  Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their special emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical tech for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time being medical techs, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on just about every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more name recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which is when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the hypothetical Bad Corrupt Governance Military and gotten his hypothetical life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was allegedly your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only testing well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a continent containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty.  Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their special emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical tech for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time being medical techs, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on just about every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more name recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his hypothetical life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was allegedly your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only testing well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a continent containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty.  Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their special emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical tech for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time being medical techs, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on just about every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more name recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was allegedly your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only testing well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a continent containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty.  Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical tech for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time being medical techs, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more name recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was allegedly your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only testing well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a continent containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty.  Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical tech for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time being medical techs, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more name recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was once your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only-testing-well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a continent containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty.  Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical tech for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time being medical techs, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more name recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was once your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only-testing-well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a region containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty.  Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical tech for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time being medical techs, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more name recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was once your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only-testing-well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a region containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty.  Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical responder for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time responding to medical emergencies, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more name recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was once your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only-testing-well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a region containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty.  Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical responder for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time responding to medical emergencies, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more identity recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was once your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only-testing-well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a region containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty."

"Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical responder for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time responding to medical emergencies, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more identity recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the correct name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was once your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only-testing-well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were asking about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a region containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty."

"Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical responder for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time responding to medical emergencies, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more identity recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the difference between her game alias and her real name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was once your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only-testing-well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were probing about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a region containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty."

"Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical responder for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time responding to medical emergencies, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more identity recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the difference between her game alias and her real name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was once your crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only-testing-well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were probing about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a region containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty."

"Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical responder for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time responding to medical emergencies, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more identity recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the difference between her game alias and her real name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was once your teenage crush.

"Standardized trials, of course!  With prediction markets about performance under real future possibilities, in case somebody is only-testing-well in a way that the markets can notice."

"Oh, you were probing about people I find attractive, so.  I can't show her to you until I learn an illusion spell, and maybe something that boosts my memory, but in terms of people I would've screwed if I could've made it to where I could screw almost anyone compatible-and-available... ah, background.  There's this one woman who was, on scores alone, the second-best endurance medical responder for a region containing a quarter of the planetary population.  She wasn't the person you'd call in for one person having a brief medical emergency, she was the person whose performance degraded the least if she had to work for sixteen hours straight.  Except at her level, never mind sixteen hours, she could go for like thirty."

"Now consider all of the Alien Invasion Rehearsal people, and the sections of Governance who think about weird scenarios where, for some reason, you can't send in ten medical techs, you have to send one medical tech who works ten times as long.  Everybody wanted her in their weird emergency response plans.  The number one endurance medical responder for her region wasn't into working with Governance on weird scenarios nearly as much, or the number one people for other regions, they just wanted to spend all their time responding to medical emergencies, go figure.  So she was like spending half her time on actual patients, and half of her time maintaining all of her certifications for being hypothetically called in on every imaginable kind of weird medical emergency by every branch of Exception Handling.  Lots of people watching the transmitted moving pictures of her doing that, treating simulated aliens that famous authors dreamed up, things like that.  She was rank 5 famous, only one in a hundred thousand people had more identity recognition than her.  If you were really lucky you might personally see her simultaneously treating four pretend wounded bodies during an Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival."  Or during an Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival, which was when Keltham had actually been pretend-nearly-killed by the Hypothetical Corrupted Governance Military and gotten his game life saved by her in person.  "And also she was pretty.  Merrin, was her name."

He'd almost said 'Miran', but remembered the difference between her game alias and her real name barely in time, which is a little embarrassing for somebody who was once your teenage crush.