Thank you so much! I'm very glad protoViolence's story and presentation could leave an impact on you like this - especially Pavel. He's a good boy at heart!
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I'm glad the document reading worked as intended too. I wanted readers to get into the rhythm of reading a lot of documents for the first two story parts - only to have that routine broken when the third story part withholds information from them.
And yeah... "processing" is a horrible term, isn't it? Such a clinical term for something so invasive and life-changing... Which was the intent, of course. ;>