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@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Nearing the 200th anniversary of System secession from humanity, the System and
* [X] [Launch: phys-side: Douglas](launch/phys/Douglas/006) - Talks with May about launch-era political machinations from phys-side - 2140
* [X] [Secession: sys-side: True Name](secession/sys/True-Name/003) - Starts to think of phys/sys dichotomy in political terms, forks on the sly (only Jonas knows), so that forks can handle both, leaving her as figurehead who appears to know all - 2765
* [X] [Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Pollux](launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/004) - talks with Dear about secession and the mood before and after in general, but also w/in clade, Dear hints that Praiseworthy started shaping the history even before secession and the art of propaganda - 2265
* [O] [Launch: sys-side: Ioan](launch/sys/Ioan/006) - Ioan and May share growing concerns from LV messages - 2034 (probably needs work)
* [X] [Launch: sys-side: Ioan](launch/sys/Ioan/006) - Ioan and May share growing concerns from LV messages - 2034 (probably needs work)
* [O] [Secession: phys-side: Yared](secession/phys/Yared/006) - Demma is a bit grumpy that Yared talked to sys-side, but mostly pleased that they seem to be on board with it; presses Yared for more information, hints at distates for System; told to ignore latest update, team will get him a new one. - 2939
* [O] [Secession: sys-side: True Name](secession/sys/True-Name/004) - Meets with Praiseworthy (skunk female, studious and charismatic) to discuss propaganda angle, thus getting more on sys-side to support political acts. He suggests softening her features to be more approachable, cute, meek, etc. - 2128
* [O] [Launch: launch-side: Codrin#Pollux](launch/launch/Codrin-pollux/005) - interviews *Why Ask Questions* Here At The End Of All Things (Michelle, casual type), who was tasked by True Name and Jonas to meddle with sys-side politics and increase support for secession - 2819

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@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ May nodded.
*It's just...May. That's just how she is,* ey kept reminding emself. *There is no explaining an Odist.*
"It's been happening more and more since the idea of the launches first started to take off. It happened before, too, but I think coming to the understanding that this isn't exactly all there is, that there's also stuff outside the System and far away from the Sun...well, it just kind of rubbed my face in it. "You're stuck here, Ioan Bălan," it says. "You're not going to be on the launch, and even if you were, that wouldn't be you. There'd be no merging of experiences"."
"It's been happening more and more since the idea of the launches first started to take off. It happened before, too, but I think coming to the understanding that this *isn't* all there is, that there's also stuff outside the System and far away from the Sun...well, it just kind of rubbed my face in it. "You're stuck here, Ioan Bălan," it says. "You're not going to be on the launch, and even if you were, that wouldn't be you. There'd be no merging of experiences"."
May laughed. "I find freedom in that. Not only will I not have to do any of that work, but I will also get to be one of the shitheads that stays behind."
"And that's a bonus?"
"Of course it is, dear. When was the last time you had the luxury of staying behind? Of that being a one-way decision?"
"Of course it is, my dear. When was the last time you had the luxury of staying behind? Of that being a one-way decision?"
Ey frowned.
@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Ey frowned.
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."
"Of course," May said, sitting up and swinging her legs up onto the rock so that she could sit cross-legged, facing em. "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?"
@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ The skunk dipped her muzzle. "That is difficult to say. They are each sensitive
"I'm sure it'd enjoy that."
"It would make it a whole production. Invite everyone on the launch."
"It would make it a whole production. Invite everyone on the LV."
Ioan laughed.
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"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 ey holed himself up in that office for a while and paced a ring into the floor."
"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, can really mess with you. I bet ey 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."
@ -110,11 +110,11 @@ She laughed and winced once she stood, rubbing at the base of her tail. "All pin
They walked back along the deer trail, back the way they came. The water was now to their left, and where their eyes had been drawn to it before, they were now drawn to the pine forest that rimmed the lake. Trees reached straight for the sky from their brown bed of needles.
And as they walked, faster than before, May talked. "I worry about them. Both launches, both families. I worry about me and you. The interview with Ezekiel, yes, but both of them, both Castor and Pollux, are starting to get closer to the center of it all."
And as they walked, faster than before, May talked. "I worry about them. Both launches, both families. I worry about me and you. The interview with Ezekiel, yes, but both of them, both Castor and Pollux, are starting to circle around the center of it all."
"The center?"
"All three of us --- Dear#Castor, Dear#Pollux, and I --- have warned all three of you Bălans that there is a lot behind this." She was panting now as she walked. She had taken the lead, and was drawing em along behind her as she spoke. "We couch it in humor and jokey language as though they are riddles for you to solve, but Ioan, I worry that all it will do in the end is sow distrust between our two clades."
"All three of us --- Dear#Castor, Dear#Pollux, and I --- have warned all three of you Bălans that there is a lot behind this." She was panting now as she walked, faster and faster. She had taken the lead, and was drawing em along behind her as she spoke. "We couch it in humor and jokey language as though they are riddles for you to solve, but Ioan, I worry that all it will do in the end is sow distrust between our two clades."
Ioan worked to keep up with May as she nearly jogged around the last bend in the path. "We can stop, May. If you don't think it'll lead to anything good, then we can just stop. We can look elsewhere. We can go back to interviewing musicians and astronomers and shitty authors. There are still stories to tell, and I'm sure that they will lead to just as many myths."
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"There's no way to stay behind, you mean."
She laughed, and the laugh was choked. "You are a brat. But yes. There is no way to stay behind, there is no going and there is no back."
She laughed, and the laugh was haky with tears. "You are a brat. But yes. There is no way to stay behind."
"You're just worried?"
"I am just worried. You are at serious risk of learning the truth, and that has me worried."
"Alright." Ey drew May in for a hug. "I don't understand you Odists. I never have. You seem to have all these countless dramatic events spiraling around you."
"Alright." Ey drew May in for a hug. "I don't understand you Odists. I never have. You seem to have all these dramatic events spiraling around you."
She laughed as she rested her head against eir shoulder. "We do, yes, and you love it."
@ -150,4 +150,4 @@ She laughed as she rested her head against eir shoulder. "We do, yes, and you lo
"Good," ey said.
"Now, take me home and talk about literally anything else for the rest of the night."
"Now, take me home and talk about something --- anything --- else for the rest of the night."