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212Rachel filled two glasses and gave one to Barbara. Albert swung his laptop around and she looked at the screen. It showed not just one month%u2019s payment but two, waiting for two clicks of buttons. She stared at the amount.She looked up at the two of them. %u201cDo it. I%u2019m in all the way.%u201dThey clicked the keys, one after the other, and he swung the laptop round to show her, saying in a hushed tone, %u201cYou are now a very wealthy woman. Can you remove your knickers, Rachel.%u201dShe drank her entire glass of brandy, slid her knickers down, and lifted her feet out of them. %u201cTell me what to do,%u201d she said.%u201cFine. We just wish to chat first, briefly.%u201d Barbara told her.%u201cI think it is important for us all and the project to move into a new mode, one outside of all constraints. We cannot do this without you desiring it too. Our individual desires, all human beings, to realise fantasy, to play games together, read stories, to participate in creating songs, games, movies... or engage with such creations... all of these things together point to something profound.%u201d Barbara told her enthusiastically. %u201cWe desire not just to understand it, myself and Albert, but to experience it. You, we believe, can achieve that first. And then help us to experience it.%u201dRachel watched, as if starting to enter a dream space, as Barbara drank her own glass of brandy and filled all their glasses. %u201cWhat do you wish to do? I understand that you are revealing plots within plots, wheels within wheels. What is it that you want from me?%u201d Rachel said.%u201cWhat do you want from this moment right now? Not for us, but to break the binds that tie us to normality?%u201d Barbara asked her, as Rachel watched Barbara as she plucked something from somewhere and placed The Search For Consciousness