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@ -64,4 +64,30 @@ Ey frowned.
"Mm, true. I'm happy for them, at least."
"As am I."
"As am I. Their communications are not quite as happy as I suspect they wish, but I am still happy for them."
Ioan knit eir brow. "There is that, yeah. Do you remember Ezekiel?"
"Of course," May said, sitting up and swinging her legs up onto the rock so that she could sit cross-legged, facing em. "Though I knew him as Zeke. He was brilliant. Intensely, incredibly brilliant. I am sure that he still is, but that brilliance is now coiled all around itself in the way that happens with prophets throughout the ages."
Ey turned to face May in turn. "Who do you think that weighed more on, though? Dear or Codrin?"
The skunk dipped her muzzle. "That is difficult to say. They are each sensitive in their own ways. Dear, I imagine, is feeling a lot of old fears confirmed, and old memories come to roost. I worry that, some day, that fox will spin itself into a whirlwind and dissipate into the atmosphere."
"I'm sure it'd enjoy that."
"It would make it a whole production. Invite everyone on the launch."
Ioan laughed.
"And Codrin?"
"I expect ey's struggling, in eir own way. Were I confronted with something like that, I'd be able to keep it together throughout the interview, but afterwards, I'd have to spend a lot of time just decompressing."
"Why is that?"
"You spend all your time up here--" Ey tapped at eir temple. "--and being confronted by the ways in which that can go wrong to someone who was, as you say, brilliant, and it can really mess with you. I bet he holed himself up in that office for a while and paced a ring into the floor."
If ey had been expecting a laugh or a smile from the skunk, ey was disappointed. She simply nodded and looked off into the water again. "There is nothing wrong with that, Ioan. We have known that disconnect. We have known the feeling of a mind coiled in on itself. That is frightening to all of us. It *should* be frightening."
Suspecting that May would appreciate it and not knowing what to say to that, ey simply reached out and took one of her paws in eir hands.