# Selected Letters

1. Exposition
    1. Sorina is upset, feeling that Codrin#Castor is struggling with her leaving, and thus her exes being upset with her
    2. Codrin *is* kinda struggling, but is also sort of baffled as to why she went quiet so soon
    3. Ioan is starting to meet with True Name regularly, talking about therapy w/ Odists; concerned for Sorina/Codrin#Castor, urges them to talk to each other
    4. Codrin#Pollux sends brief note that partner has left (temporarily?); another that Serene has joined so there are still three at the house
3. Development
    1. Ioan also summarizes events of *Mitzvot* (mostly mentioning the work ey wrote sent along with them), inquires after TN from both LVs (both decline to respond, but in exactly the same way, showing they were probably in on it, shown in footnote), mentions getting closer with Sasha
    2. Codrin#Pollux talks about life with two foxes and w/o partner, moving from moping to joy to normalcy, brings back grief vs longing
    3. Codrin and Sorina talk to each other, copying the rest of the clade
5. Recapitulation
    1. Sorina is calming down, at least! They've got it mostly worked out, though she's setting a boundary in terms of communication between herself and the 'cule, settling back into comfortable single life as Ioan had before encountering Odists
    2. Codrin#Pollux and Dear's partner decides to move on without them over several weeks of discussion, and it's all fairly positive; ey writes this to Ioan only, though, with a separate note from each to their counterparts Castor, talking about how immortality changes ones view on letting go of relationships
    3. Ioan and Sasha enter some sort of vague relationship whenever Sasha drifts in and out of eir life (always forking as Aurel/Aurică/a, so that Sasha and May can own their own devotion). Talks about the struggles of making it work the first time, how May's devotion and eir confusion play into it, Sasha struggling with May's need for contact and love conflicting with EW's need for distance and solitude

## Outline

*Exocortex#99732a6: Selected correspondences of the Bălan clade systime 222--232* 

> *Note:* With the events of the last ten years, there's been a lot changes shaking out in the clade when it comes to relationships. Collecting all of these here so that I can keep them handy for when things doubtless need further shaking out in the future. For the sake of comfortable through-reading, all eyes-only metadata has been stripped, but trust that everything was eyes-only to the named recipients. I've kept the timestamps as the message-sent time in the metadata. It's been thirty years and I'm still struggling with transmission delays.

1. [X] Exposition
    1. [X] [Intro](000): about
    2. [X] [Codrin#Castor → Ioan](001): tearful letter re: Sorina
    3. [X] [Ioan → clade](002): first meeting with True Name
    4. [X] [Codrin#Castor → clade](003): on convergence
    5. [X] [Sorina → Ioan](004): greetings (on S+L day)
    6. [X] [Codrin#Castor → Ioan, #Pollux](005): Struggling re: Sorina and silence
    7. [X] [Sorina → Ioan](006): I love you letter
    8. [X] [Codrin#Pollux → clade](007): Dear's partner is gone, serene is back
2. [X] Development (footnote saying that at this point, comms include exclusion for requested parties, given to all on the same day)
    1. [X] [Aurel → clade](008): Hi. Summary of *Mitzvot*, asking after TN, note that replies from other TNs were identical, proving they're in on it w/ Jonas, PS thoughts on whether or not Ioan and Michelle would have wound up together, b/c Sasha, parallel + intermittent monogamy, gender w/ nicknames, musing on clades + how they might have actually fared prior to uploading (e.g: would that disagreement b/w In Dreams+Hammered Silver w/ them manifest as fights or something?)
    2. [X] [Codrin#Pollux → clade](009): Moping re: partner
    3. [X] [Sorina → Ioan](010): wonders about seeking out new partner to feel fulfilled before getting in touch with exes, never dated before, so what now? (sent before receiving Aurel's letter)
    4. [X] [Ioan → Codrin#Pollux](011): musing re: never been in a relationship before means never having to break up before (even if it's only temporary). Talked to May, who asked if it was like Rareş?
    5. [X] [Sorina → Aurel and Ioan](012): Why are we in so many relationships with Odists? That is, what do we get out of our relationships with each other?
    6. [X] [Codrin#Pollux → clade](013): life with Serene and Dear, other Odist merges, but result doesn't stick around.
    7. [X] [Codrin#Castor → Sorina, Fwd: Ioan](014): to Sorina opening discussions
3. [X] Recapitulation
    1. [X] [Sorina → clade](015): apology to Codrin, short, but promises more
    2. [X] [Codrin#Pollux → Ioan + May](016): talking w/ partner re them moving on
    3. [X] [Codrin#Castor → clade](017): to Sorina on moving on, tell us about yourself (nevermind Artemis, just you)
    4. [X] [Ioan → Codrin#Pollux and Sorina?](018): May on immortality vs. relationships.
    5. [X] [Sorina → clade](019): finding her way back into being comfortably solitary, wants to hold off on A/V communication with Castor until she has things a bit more sorted with her emotions.
    6. [-] [Codrin#Pollux → clade](020): moving on w/o partner, w/ Serene, attached image showing A/V working between systems, just a huge delay and limited bandwidth, Serene and Dear are collaborating
    7. [X] [Aurel and Ioan → clade](021): updates re: the clade fading to comfortable obscurity (doubtless TN's stanza is still active, perhaps others strive, but just folk now), Sasha back to striped skunk now that TN's relevance is fading, Aurel in and out of existence, passes on Sasha's work, incl redacted version for Dear, will publish on 250th anniversary of System founding to give other Odists time to prep for the Name. Rareș died phys-side, became writer, one book dedicated 'To Ioan'.
