From 907aa834e1be1d8e14478f0a1b76831ceb180af2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Rye Progress Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:33:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/marsh/002.md | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/post-self/marsh/002.md b/writing/post-self/marsh/002.md index 11537e7d..fe0aaab7 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/marsh/002.md +++ b/writing/post-self/marsh/002.md @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ Lily pointedly looked away. "Wait," Cress said. "So they're saying that there's a problem with the DSN and the station? How do you mean?" -"There are few — surprisingly few — messages from over the last thirteen months, but they are queued up as though they have been held until now. There has been no contact between the LVs or Artemis and Lagrange." There was a pause as Dry Grass's gaze drifted, clearly scanning more of those messages. "Most messages have been discarded...only a few from the Guiding Council on Pollux plus a few clades on Castor...have been let through...outgoing messages are ungated..." +"There are few — surprisingly few — messages from over the last thirteen months, but they are queued up as though they have been held until now. There has been no contact between the LVs or Artemis and Lagrange." There was a pause as Dry Grass's gaze drifted, clearly scanning more of those messages. "Most messages have been locked in a way I cannot access...only a few from the Guiding Council on Pollux plus the Council of Ten Castor...have been let through...outgoing messages are gated..." "There's a bit about that in news from phys-side, actually," Sedge said, looking thoughtful. "Communications failure on the Lagrange station. Something about aging technology. The DSN was also having problems so a few new repeaters were launched. Some from the station, even." @@ -490,9 +490,11 @@ Lily, however, had had an immediate and dramatic reaction, cutting contact with Hanne spoke up. "Listen, can we maybe give this a bit to play out? I need to sleep, and if Reed doesn't take a break, he's going to explode." -The others laughed. I felt a twinge of resentment. Shouldn't they be dumping all of their energy into this? Shouldn't they all fork several times over and throw themselves at the problem? Still, it was true enough, and if they stood around the living room spinning their wheels any longer, tempers would continue to flare. +The others laughed. -"Yeah," I said. "Give me at least a few hours. I'll do a little digging and grab some sleep, then maybe we can meet up somewhere else and talk through what we've learned." +I felt a twinge of resentment. Shouldn't we be dumping all of our energy into this? Shouldn't we all fork several times over and throwing ourselves at the problem? Still, it was true enough, and if we stood around the living room spinning our wheels any longer, tempers would continue to flare. + +"Yeah," I said. "Give me at least a few hours. I'll do a little digging and maybe grab some sleep, then we can meet up somewhere else and talk through what we've learned." "I'll keep digging at the feeds," Sedge said. "Want to help, Rush?" @@ -514,7 +516,7 @@ As one, the other Marshans stepped away from my and Hanne's sim, leaving just th Hanne sat beside me, arm around my back. She rested her head on my shoulder as the wave of emotion overtook me. At first, she asked if I was alright, then she whispered a few "I'm sure it'll work out"s and "it's going to be okay"s before eventually just sitting with me in silence. -"This is really fucking weird," I said once I was able to speak again. The sound of speech echoed strangely in my head, muffled in that post-cry mess. "I don't even know who I'm crying for. It's not like they're a parent, I came from them, but they aren't me, either." +"This is really fucking weird," I said once I was able to speak again. The sound of speech echoed strangely in my head, muffled in that post-cry mess. "I don't even know who I'm crying for. It's not like they're a parent. I came from them, but they aren't me, either." "A bit of both, maybe?"