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[Ding!
Command-assist stable for low-complexity domestic presence.
Speech available, but recommended only for short routine phrases unless direct focus is shifted into clone body.]
That made Kai pause.
"Short routine phrases," he thought.
The clone, still lying beside Luna, opened its eyes and said softly, "Hmm."
The sound was exactly his.
Luna shifted, half asleep, and draped a hand across the clone's wrist without waking.
Kai froze in both bodies.
The system waited a beat, then added:
[Demonstration successful.
Reminder: system may assist with basic talking and simple presence.
Complex emotional interaction, fighting, mating, and negotiations require your active focus in that body.]
Kai looked at Luna's sleeping face from the clone's position and then away just as fast.
"Noted," he thought very firmly.
He continued until the headache settled into a hard band around his skull and his eyes felt overused from inside.
By then he understood the shape of it.
