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BRIDGET — "Um...Sorry...But I can't keep coming to the reading group. I'm leaving the country next month..."

LOGIC [Easy: Success] — Bridget was born to an aristrocratic family in Sur-la-Clef. She's probably moving back in with them.

RHETORIC — Trans-sexuals are supposed to be our comrades-in-arms. They're supposed to put their lives on the line to fight the "class war," not flee when things suddenly get too tough!

LOGIC — She's an aristocrat. An Occidental settler. Of course she flees when life becomes slightly more difficult.

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Legendary: Success] — For every reál a typical Revacholian worker makes, a trans-sexual woman makes only sixty centims. The poverty rate of trans-sexual adults is twenty-nine percent. Six hundred and twenty bills that target trans-sexuals have been considered this year within the Coalition, making this year the fifth consecutive record-breaking year. In terms of gendered oppression, trans-sexual women are the women of women.

LOGIC — Hold up. Leaving the country requires a passport and a lot of money. Any trans-sexuals that are fleeing can't be that poor.

SHIVERS [Godly: Success] — Two blocks south from the Bank of the World building stands the Tricentennial headquarters. A computer engineer sits alone in her office on the fifteenth floor. Scattered papers and piles of tapes adorn her desk.

VISUAL CALCULUS [Impossible: Success] — Her bangs obscure a very subtle widow's peak, and the slight contraction of her neck muscles suggests she is raising her laryngeal protuberance to make it appear smaller. You can't know for certain, but this may well be an underground trans-sexual.

LOGIC — She's far too pretty to be a trans-sexual. You're over-analyzing her.

PERCEPTION [Medium: Success] — There's a pretty trans-sexual right in front of you, idiot!

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Trivial: Success] — After months of psychological review, a trans-sexual woman diagnosed with sexual incongruence disorder may be prescribed estradiol and a gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist in order to cause feminization of the face and body. Finasteride and facial feminization surgery can also reverse masculinization of the hairline and skull.

REACTION SPEED — Facial feminization surgery? You've looked into that. It costs tens of thousands.

LOGIC — You could buy a Fevre with that money. A member of the working class could never afford it.

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] — "Innocence of Capital" argues that communists must possess as little capital as possible in order to keep their thinking uncorrupted by it.

LOGIC — Ergo, trans-sexuals who have had surgery cannot be working class.

BRIDGET — "So...yeah. Does anyone have any questions?"

PERCEPTION — Entire minutes have passed since Bridget said she was leaving the country. You have no idea what else was said.

RHETORIC — She's not coming back. This is your last chance to ask any questions about the trans-sexual underground.

YOU — (Whisper.) "Are trans-sexuals bourgeois?"