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Dev, leaning back in his chair.
- DEV…Alex.
- DEVHow do we play 2260 if we don't have a guitar.
- ALEX…
- ALEXCome with me. Both of you.
- ALEXBring your coffee.
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The three of them walking out through the back door. Into the backyard.
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The backyard. A converted detached structure — a workshop. Bigger than the garage on Vargas Drive. More tools. A clear glass wall. A pegboard of saws and clamps. Wood drying in a rack along one wall. Three half-finished guitars on workbenches.
- DEV…Alex.
- ALEXI've had a hobby.
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Jesse, walking through the workshop, hand brushing across the half-finished guitars on the benches.
- JESSEYou build them now.
- ALEXI build them now.
- ALEXI started after I retired. I had time. I had the schematics from your great-great-grandfather's notebooks. I have always known how.
- ALEXI just couldn't do it when DeciCorp was watching.
- ALEXIn this timeline — there's no DeciCorp.
- ALEXSo I build.
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Alex crosses to a small back room of the workshop. Opens the door. Walks in. Comes back out carrying — held flat across both forearms, the way a butler carries a folded coat — a brand-new green guitar.
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