"Yeah, we're all comrades," Israfil said, thinking suddenly of Solomon.  "I really appreciate you standing up for me, but I'm going to go talk to Solomon, I don't want the distance between him and us to get any further."

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"Thank you," Tera replied, appreciative of the respect Claire had for Quantums.  She decided she didn't need to elaborate further by using the difference between animals and humans as an analogy for the difference between simpler programs and Quantums.