update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/neviim/index.md

@@ -166,9 +166,9 @@ Stolon talking with Tycho very informal and slangy, also a bit spotty on English
 * [.] Integration - DMZ expands, several upload to Artemis
     * [o] [Tycho Brahe](local/tycho/014) --- Fresh out of talks, merges back with #tracker in sim, looks up at the sky, new big feelings, TN shows up w/champagne. She's kind of sad, but guess it went okay, says she's trying to be earnest about just wanting to have something to celebrate with someone else, but isn't sure she knows how anymore. Cracks showing as growth collides with eternal memory. - 2233
     * [ ] [Ioan Bălan](ioan/007) --- Ioan and May speculate on how True Name must be taking it Pollux, suggest Codrin's grand gesture for Dear being bringing the polycule to the DMZ, more on stability re: Odists.
-    * [.] [Codrin Bălan](local/codrin/012) --- Talks with Sarah back at home about what things will look like going forward (expand DMZ to idk like 1/3 system size, allow Artemisians to join, allow any to join Artemis as fifthrace). After Sarah leaves, goes for a walk with Dear, mentions what happened with AWNH and TN
+    * [o] [Codrin Bălan](local/codrin/012) --- Talks with Sarah back at home about what things will look like going forward (expand DMZ to idk like 1/3 system size, allow Artemisians to join, allow any to join Artemis as fifthrace). After Sarah leaves, goes for a walk with Dear, mentions what happened with AWNH and TN - 2136
     * [ ] [Tycho Brahe](local/tycho/015) --- The DMZ expands, sets up a border crossing of sorts, starts to think about what to do, about how there's this idea that he invest fully that just showed up, fully formed, in his head
-    * [.] [Ioan Bălan](ioan/005) --- Ioan and May re the name; May does a therapy - 1538 (expand with therapy)
+    * [.] [Ioan Bălan](ioan/005) --- Ioan and May re the name; May does a therapy - 1538 (expand for the rest of the morning before therapy)
     * [ ] [Codrin Bălan](local/codrin/013) --- Convinces Dear and partner to join em in both DMZ (Do they leave forks behind? Maybe Codrin is so giddy ey doesn't even care if they do) - Will write the history with Genet, but is going to take a more active role than amanuensis, learn about therapy. (Not librarian b/c different person now) A solution to boredom? Boredom finally a problem?
     * [ ] [Ioan Bălan](ioan/006) --- Ioan and May discuss ramifications on history/mythos, and how none of the Bălans want to write it; news from Castor is shown to be shaped well by TN/Jonas, data dump from Artemis arriving only after local TN/Jonas have shaped expectations, etc
     * [ ] [Tycho Brahe](local/tycho/016) --- invests fully, ceremony a la Sasha's eulogy, see both local and Artemis view from him

writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/012.md

@@ -1,6 +1,40 @@
 # Codrin Bălan#Castor --- 2346
 
-(Talks with Sarah back at home about what things will look like going forward (expand DMZ to idk like 1/3 system size, allow Artemisians to join, allow any to join Artemis as fifthrace). After Sarah leaves, goes for a walk with Dear, mentions what happened with AWNH and TN)
+While it wouldn't have been totally true to call the celebration at Codrin's return 'wild', it was certainly rambunctious in its own delightfully Dear way, with dozens of foxes scattering around the house in a flurry of forking, plenty of hugging and chatting and laughing and smiling.
+
+Ey'd been startled, in that half-doubled way that an up-tree instance might feel, when ey merged down to find that True Name and Jonas had requested that Codrin#Assist stay at their compound rather than returning home except for a few hours around dinner.
+
+At least ey'd had the chance to pull the fox's tail.
+
+Once it calmed down enough to sit down, Dear dragged Codrin into the dining room, gesturing eagerly for Sarah to follow with. Their partner had a spread already laid out for them.
+
+They spent the next hour recounting, carefully, the events of the talks. Codrin had requested that Sarah not discuss the Odists' reaction to skew until ey'd had the chance to do so one-on-one with Dear. They spoke instead in general terms, discussing the topics that had come up during the talks, and the final announcement that they'd be welcomed aboard as fifthrace.
+
+*"What is the practical result of this decision?"*
+
+"Well, the technical details are a bit beyond me," Sarah said. "But the Artemisians and our own engineers are talking about how to let the DMZ grow in size to no more than a third of our total capacity. As many as want to join us within those limitations will be able to join us here. They will allow as many of who wish to join them to do so, as well."
+
+"We'll also be exchanging our shared libraries of information," Codrin added. "I think that transmission effort has already begun, actually. We're getting an enormous dump of information from four societies, and then we'll upload all of ours to them. It's going to be a field day for librarians, I bet."
+
+"Think you'll join?" their partner asked.
+
+Ey shrugged. "I'm not sure, actually. It sounds fun, but I'm not sure I'm the same Bălan who wanted to be a librarian all those years ago."
+
+*"Codrin#Pollux has headed in that direction, though,"* Dear said.
+
+"I know. I just don't know if the same is something I'd like to do. I've got some thoughts on directions I might head instead, though. I've been talking with Sarah about it, and will tackle it deliberately."
+
+The fox nodded. *"Of course, my love. I would be surprised if you were anything but deliberate."*
+
+Ey laughed and bumped eir shoulder against its. "Of course."
+
+*"This is all so delightfully exciting, is it not? I was worried at first that the drama would be too much. Aliens! Political summits in space! Imagine."* The fox giggled. *"And it was dramatic, I suppose, but it has settled down into exciting. Aliens, yes, but boundless new knowledge. Political summits in space, yes, but also a mingling of societies that we could not possibly imagine."*
+
+Sarah laughed and raised her coffee mug. "To the proper amount of excitement."
+
+Dear laughed hoisted its own mug as thought it was some ale-filled tankard. *"Precisely, my dear!"*
+
+Codrin smiled, sipping eir coffee as ey watched. *Proper amount of excitement, indeed.*
 
 After Sarah left, the triad sat around the table, saying nothing, simply processing this new future that lay before them. It felt almost too large for Codrin to comprehend. Something new. Something enormous. Something that felt somehow larger than the launches. Those, at least, had the advantage of being something that ey could predict. Society continued much as it had before, after all, hadn't it? They had decamped from the L<sub>5</sub> System for the LVs and everything looked exactly the same, minus only the few friends who had not done so.
 
@@ -62,7 +96,7 @@ Ey nodded.
 
 *"Codrin?"*
 
-"In the middle of yelling about prophets, she said the Name several times."
+"In the middle of yelling about prophets, she said that she 'could not feel em', then the Name several times."
 
 The grip on eir hand went slack, and when ey turned to face the fennec, its eyes had gone glassy, whiskers and ears both drooping.