"Clearly enough," Satou said.
"How far north-northeast?" Chronus asked, with the tone of someone asking out of genuine intellectual curiosity. "I've been interested in the mechanics of it. Richard was not a standard soul fragment — the way I constructed him was specific to my purposes, which created some unusual propagation characteristics when his connection to me was absorbed by you."
"Far enough," Satou said.
Chronus considered this. "Fair. I wouldn't answer the question either, in your position." He looked at the working around him with the specific proprietorial look of someone surveying their own work. "What do you think?"
The question was genuine — not rhetorical, not mocking. The question of someone who had spent three months on something and was asking a qualified observer for an honest assessment.
"It's extensive," Satou said.
