"You're not real, whatever you are," he said in a loud, challenging voice. "I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't know -- how cruel this is. Get out of here."

oh, this just broke my heart. but a perfectly reasonable reaction. and i loved Rose's response to his doubt.

tho yeah, i'm a wee skeptical of the easy fix. you have previously built so slowly, after all. what are you up to?