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The notification blinked with all the empathy of a brick: “Lost connection!” “I told you Ptah was a literal thinker,” Akshara said, stirring his tea like it had personally offended him, “but strangely, this time he’s being inferential.” Ptah nodded gravely. “What he means,” the god clarified, unhelpfully, “is that he has lost connection with the people in his life.” This, inevitably, reminded…