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+# Shifting POV
+
+Transition when JK says.
+
+## 1
+
+Sasha felt within her that shift. She felt the ways in which the world around her began to shift focus, colors warming, lines softening, light becoming silky and indistinct. She felt the way that of her which moved most confidently stepped back. She felt that which knew time and patience and solitude relax into unimaginable open spaces.
+
+## 2
+
+"Aurică, are you here? Are you?" That which had been TN, that which had been End Waking, marveled at how smooth her voice had become.
+
+## 3
+
+"Sure, Sash, what's up?"
+
+"Do you know how long ago we met?"
+
+"I could--"
+
+"No. Do you know? Do you feel it?"
+
+Ey hesitated. "You alright?"
+
+Was she? Was she? "I do not know."
+
+## 4
+
+"The world is so big. I have been walking sims for decades and centuries."
+
+## 5
+
+"I know, you just came back."
+
+She laughed. "No, I mean...well, yes, I did. But there is so much. There are sims that I have only seen once, those that I have only seen twice."
+
+## 6
+
+"Any you've seen centuries apart?"
+
+"Yes, dozens. Probably. It is hard to count, I am sure. But, my dear, there are so many more. I have explored less than a tenth of a tenth of a percent across three centuries. Can you imagine how much a mind can hold? Can you imagine how much a hundred billion minds can imagine?"
+
+## 7
+
+"Are you alright, Sasha?" 
+
+"I do not know. I was working, and then I was not, and I am worried now."
+
+"Do you need to come here? I can take a break."
+
+"Uh," she fiddled with her fur. "Yes, please."
+
+## 8
+
+She had felt that shift within her, felt that which was May step forward, felt the sickening lurch from who she had been to who she was, and lay back on the beanbag.
+
+Felt confidence fade, and yet felt love increase, increase, increase...