Jack of Harts

Kara was always the sister who was most interested in language. Cybernetic intelligences communicate with each other completely differently than we do, on more channels than we can imagine. They use spoken language to work with us, but many of them consider it a slow and clumsy form of communication. But Kara loved the art of speaking and she practiced it all the time. Some people even called her a chatterbox. But the fact is that she could communicate more with her tongue than most cybers ever tried to. And she always preferred a good philosophical argument over anything else. It was the art of communicating deep and personal ideas through the slow and difficult medium that is language that entranced her. I suppose that’s why John interested her. Preacher John, not any of the other Johns. They were fighters. Preacher was…well…a talker. He could talk the spots off a cheetah, and Kara could convince the cheetah it looked better that way. You could say they got along like a house on fire.

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