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writing/post-self/toledot/launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/004.md

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 *"If you threaten me with a good time, you will win precisely the prize that you deserve."*
 
+Codrin laughed. "You're right. We deserve peace and quiet, sometimes."
 
+Ey received a fry to the face from the fox, which ey dunked into the shake. "What is this place, anyway?"
+
+*"It is the restaurant that--"* It hesitated for a beat, during which the noise around them dimmed as a cone of silence fell. *"It is the restaurant at which part of the clade celebrated Secession Day."*
+
+Codrin stifled a yawn from the ear-popping sensation that always came with the silence. "You weren't there?"
+
+*"I had not yet been forked, no. I remember it through the eyes of...another."*
+
+"Another? No, wait. I'll have to find that out on my own, won't I?"
+
+*"Of course, my dear."*
+
+"What was it like back then?" ey asked.
+
+*"Mx Codrin Balan, are you working?"*
+
+"Not particularly," ey said. "I really am just curious."
+
+*"Well, you will still need to be more specific. 'Back then' covers a large swath of time."*
+
+"How about a year to either side?" its partner suggested.
+
+*"That still encompasses a good amount of goings on. I will tell you some of them, but you will have to--"*
+
+"Find the rest on my own, yes."
+
+The fox gave a hint of a bow. *"Thank you in indulging me in this, Codrin. I cannot be the one to share everything."*