diff --git a/writing/post-self/marsh/017.md b/writing/post-self/marsh/017.md index e7438a12..1c9cc756 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/marsh/017.md +++ b/writing/post-self/marsh/017.md @@ -196,13 +196,13 @@ We talked for a while longer, though descriptions were slim, repetitions of what "Hey," they said at last, once the line of questions had died down. "What do you say about inviting Vos and Pierre over? Maybe they'd like to meet me." -I winced. I'd been dreading this moment. I'd intentionally not brought up the subject of Marsh's partners, lest that dissuade my cocladists. Admonitions rang in my ears, Hanne's and Dry Grass's. *I'm a bit wary you won't get what you want,* Hanne had said. *The potential for pain,* Dry Grass had said. +I winced. I'd been dreading this moment. I'd intentionally not brought up the subject of Marsh's partners, lest that dissuade my cocladists. Admonitions rang in my ears, Hanne's and Dry Grass's. *I'm a bit wary you won't get what you want,* Hanne had said. *The potential for pain,* Dry Grass had said. New Marsh had these memories, now, too, but I had no way of knowing just how close they were to the surface, whether they were even at the forefront of their mind. There was a long silence that followed as we all seemed to digest the ramifications of this. "Yeah, I guess," Sedge said warily. "I don't know how it'll go, but yeah." - + A few minutes later, we sat staggered on the stairs before the front door, New Marsh sitting up front, waiting. A knock, hesitant, sounded, and Cress called out from beside Tule, "Come in." @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ She swayed on her feet, eventually reaching out a hand to prop herself up agains "One of the changes made in the System during the downtime was to enable cross-tree merging. It hasn't been announced yet, but Sedge and I were at the meetings, so we, uh..." -"I'm all of us," New Marsh said, voice strained from the force of Pierre's hug. "I'm their entire clade. I'm as much of them as I could manage." +"I'm all of us," New Marsh said, voice strained from the force of Pierre's hug. "I'm the entire clade. I'm as much of us as I could manage." Pierre quickly unwound his arms from them, staggering backwards with such hurriedness that he nearly tripped were it not for Vos, there to catch him. "What the fuck..."