update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/qoheleth/Sasha/003.md

@@ -93,4 +93,44 @@ It had been centuries for her, and yet each felt shorter than the crash to the g
 
 She cried again/cried again. Sat on the ground again/sat on the ground again. Plucked a dandelion/plucked a dandelion. Again/again. Always twice over.
 
+"Sasha!" She spoke aloud.
 
+"The fuck." Half question this time.
+
+"Sasha, it's Debarre," she said, then, "What the fuck?"
+
+"I'm so sorry. I came as fast as I could. Everything's a fucking mess."
+
+"How long has it been?" she asked herself.
+
+"About sixteen hours. I had to dump a chunk of my savings into a ticket to get here."
+
+She clawed at the ground in something between frustration at terror that a friend's voice was coming from her mouth/from her muzzle. "And...how are you..."
+
+"A mirror rig." The joyous tone of the words clashed against the tears still flowing freely. "We figured it out. Carter figured it out, I mean. She and AwDae bust everything open. Figured out how to rescue the lost, figured out how everyone *gets* lost in the first place."
+
+She stopped digging at the earth. "AwDae's back?"
+
+"Yes! And the clinic where Cicero is is trying to get him out as well!"
+
+She had to turn toward the bar again to let the shouting echo. The silence was giving her a headache.
+
+Or not. A neck-ache. Something was tearing at the back of the neck/through the fur of her scruff. An ache. A jolt of pain. A ripping. A tearing.
+
+"I'm going to stop mirroring now. This is horrifying," she said to the wood of the bar. She did not know who said the last.
+
+And then, a hand on her shoulder. One of her shoulders. The sensation had her hair/fur stand on end. She turned around, and there was Debarre. The weasel frowned as he looked between the two of her. Looked at Sasha/looked at Michel.
+
+"I...what? Sasha?"
+
+She gritted her teeth/bared her teeth. "I don't know either. What to we do now? How do we get out of this hell?"
+
+Debarre shrugged. "Can you back out?"
+
+She reached. Felt the draft. Smiled beatifically. She passed the field of dandelions. Passed the setting sun, or perhaps he passed her.
+
+And breathed the cool air of an implant clinic.
+
+There, beside her, also sitting up from the recliner and pulling off his headband, was, she supposed, Debarre. Short. Soft. Thinning hair. Ecstatic grin.
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+"Sasha?" The grin picked up an ironic twist. "Or Michel, I guess. You okay?"

writing/post-self/qoheleth/index.md

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     * [O] Chapter: [RJ 014](RJ/014) --- explores memory instead of will, finds deck in eir exo, then way more, struggling to forget
     * [O] Chapter: [Carter 010](Carter/010) --- Messages Caitlin and Johansson, heads to RJ, threatened by mooks
     * [O] Chapter: [RJ 015](RJ/015) --- deduces meaning of getting loss
-3. [o] Act III
+3. [O] Act III
     * [O] Chapter: [Ioan 007](Ioan/007) --- Mustering the Odists
     * [-] Chapter: [Carter 011](Carter/011) --- makes it to RJ, gets mirror rig in place, gets attacked, Caitlin fights mooks while Carter dives in. (REJECTED merged with next chapter)
     * [O] Chapter: [Qoheleth 004](Qoheleth/004) --- Qoheleth is patient
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     * [O] Chapter: [Ioan 008](Ioan/008) --- Ready to head out
     * [O] Chapter: [Carter 011](Carter/011) RJ surprised to see Carter there, resists leaving as the sudden aspect of something not being in control is a shock
     * [O] Chapter: [Qoheleth 005](Qoheleth/005) --- Qoheleth gets Dear's ping
-    * [ ] Chapter: [Sasha 003](Sasha/003) --- endless field of dandelions, then suddenly Debarre, pulled back, brought up to speed on what Carter learned about how to rescue lost and the conspiracy
+    * [O] Chapter: [Sasha 003](Sasha/003) --- endless field of dandelions, then suddenly Debarre, pulled back, brought up to speed on what Carter learned about how to rescue lost and the conspiracy
     * [O] Chapter: [Ioan 009](Ioan/009) --- Qoheleth gives his speech, is assassinated
     * [O] Chapter: [Qoheleth 006](Qoheleth/006) --- Assassinated
-    * [ ] Chapter: [Sasha 004](Sasha/004) --- Sasha and Debarre publish evidence, Carter passes to Prakash, spreads like wildfire
+    * [ ] Chapter: [Sasha 004](Sasha/004) --- ~~Sasha and Debarre publish evidence, Carter passes to Prakash, spreads like wildfire~~ News stories? Maybe not even necessary.
     * [O] Chapter: [Ioan 010](Ioan/010) --- Wrapping up with Dear, Serene, Praiseworthy
-4. [o] Denouement
+4. [.] Denouement
     * [.] Chapter: [Sasha](Sasha/005) --- Sasha at/after funeral, learn she's Michel Hadje
     * [.] Chapter: [Carter 013](Carter/013) --- retrospective: Sanders in jail, Prakash back to RB working on upload tech using info about exo mirroring, Carter praised for saving the lost and exposing plot
     * [o] Chapter: [RJ 017](RJ/017) --- Ode in letter/suicide note to Sasha