update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/marsh/017.md

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+"Reed, are you sure?" Rush asked.
+
+I shook my head. "I don't think there's any guarantee that this will do anything like what we're hoping. I think it may actually go badly. When I watched Jonas do this, he said it felt really weird, like a really old merge, but also from a vastly different angle, rather than the usual down-tree."
+
+"He, uh..." Sedge said, then cleared her throat. "He actually quit right after, said it felt like Jonas Fa was living inside of his head before there was any reconciliation."
+
+Rush furrowed vis brow. "Christ, what a trip."
+
+"Yeah." I sighed. "I was thinking maybe we'd do it somewhere relaxing so that...whoever the result is can spend however long they want reconciling in peace without having to worry about the outside world or external stimulus. Maybe that foggy pasture sim with the pagoda, maybe somewhere with a bed."
+
+Cress shrugged. "We have a spare bedroom, too, and Dry Grass can stick around in case we need any help."
+
+Tule nodded. "She back up to speed really quickly, but I guess that's how it goes when you're three hundred something years old."
+
+"Alright. That's a good idea, too."
+
+"You like that pagoda, don't you?" Rush asked, a faint grin on vis face.
+
+

writing/post-self/marsh/index.md

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     * [o] [013](013) --- Dry Grass mourns, Reed catches Cress and Tule up with regards to System changes, cross-tree merges --- 2395
     * [o] [014](014) --- Reed and Hanne talking, Reed admits to starting to grieve now that things are calming down, expresses doubts about reconstruction --- 1775
     * [o] [015](015) --- Date with Dry Grass, talking about reconstruction --- 2002
-    * [o] [016](016) --- (Discussing list of requests to systech both phys- and sys-side for improvement, incl someone digging into Artemisian archives)
+    * [o] [016](016) --- (Discussing list of requests to systech both phys- and sys-side for improvement, incl someone digging into Artemisian archives) --- 3975
     * [ ] [017](017) --- (It doesn't work, there is only them, no Marsh, Vos gets *very mad*, clade admits it's time to start grieving proper)
 * [ ] Epilogue --- Life after
     * [ ] [018](018) --- (Months later, a letter from Marsh#Castor or #Pollux expressing grief, coming to terms with letting go of the past, conversation 2 with A Finger Pointing (and other Odists) about being a clade without a root)
@@ -57,3 +57,4 @@ This seems to be heading toward a mixed novel/anthology project with *Marsh* bei
 
 * [.] [Nasturtiums](Nasturtiums)
 * [.] [Kaddish](Kaddish)
+* [ ] [So Far](so-far)