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@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ She laughed delightedly and clapped her hands. "Oh, I absolutely love it, my dea
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He blinked, tilting his head. "Are you sure?"
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"Of course I fucking am," she said, grinning widely. "I am the politician, you are the nerd. Now, let us hammer out some answers to these questions for ourselves that we can send. Answers to the first four, I mean. We will not answer "Do you dream?" for ourselves."
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"Of course I fucking am," she said, grinning widely. "I am the politician, you are the nerd. Now, let us hammer out some answers to these questions for ourselves that we can send. Answers to the first four, I mean. We will not answer 'Do you dream?' for ourselves."
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Tycho stopped himself from asking why, realizing she would likely answer in the same way. "Alright, then. This is fun, thanks for giving me the chance to work on it."
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@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Iska sat still and silent for a moment, and Tycho imagined a hidden frustration
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"That aligns with our experience. I would not have used the words 'intent' and 'project a desire' prior to hearing them. I would have said that one 'remembers' being at a set skew. One remembers being or having been at skew plus one, and then one is. One remembers having been at common time, or perhaps remembers sliding down from skew plus one to common time, and one does so." After a hesitation, they added, "But the concepts map almost exactly, so I will gladly accept 'intent' and 'project a desire' as terms."
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Codrin spoke up next. "My counterpart on Artemis described in a note to me that "common time feels like a pin in a lock clicking into place as you move faster or slower". I am assuming that this is what you mean when you say "one remembers having been at common time"?"
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Codrin spoke up next. "My counterpart on Artemis described in a note to me that 'common time feels like a pin in a lock clicking into place as you move faster or slower'. I am assuming that this is what you mean when you say 'one remembers having been at common time'?"
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Iska bared their teeth, a gesture that the delegates had agreed must be a sort of smile. "The common time consensus sensation is provided as an aid to all consciousness-bearing entities, yes. I am told that, when one first experiences skew, it can feel, *lu*...slippery, perhaps. It can be difficult to aim for a skew and remember that exactly, so one slides toward it and may overshoot. I am nearly five thousand years old, Artemis reckoning, I have forgotten how it feels for skew to be slippery, but yes, that is why it exists."
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