update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/toledot/launch/launch/Codrin-castor/007.md

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 # Codrin Bălan#Castor --- 2325
 
-Codrin Bălan was more nervous about this interview than ey'd ever been about one before. It's not that ey hadn't been anxious about talking with True Name previously --- ey certainly had, given the warning that Dear had left em with --- but in the intervening weeks, ey had had eir conversations with with No Jonas and read the news from both Codrin#Pollux and Ioan about the wealth of knowledge that the Bălan clade had gathered.
+Codrin Bălan was more nervous about this interview than ey'd ever been about one before. It's not that ey hadn't been anxious about talking with True Name previously --- ey certainly had, given the warning that Dear had left em with --- but in the intervening weeks, ey had had eir conversations with No Jonas and read the news from both Codrin#Pollux and Ioan about the wealth of knowledge that the Bălan clade had gathered.
 
 Dear gave no warning this time. It simply stood in the door of Codrin's office, looking some mixture between sad and frightened, and bowed its head when ey gave it a goodbye kiss atop the snout. Ey left eir #Tracker instance in eir office to sit and not think of anything while ey painted terribly, the better to reduce merge conflicts down the line, and then sent a fork back to the sim where first ey had met True Name.
 

writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/Ioan/010.md

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Jonas's grin turned icy. "No, not Earth, Ioan. The System."
 
 Ioan blinked and sat up straighter. "I don't remember hearing anything about that."
 
-"We clamped down on the knowledge as best we could as soon as we realized we wouldn't be able to rule it out." Jonas waved his hand. "Not important, though, because the last part of that package is a complete description of a human neural system and a basic description of our physiology. A complete map of our DNA, should they even want to build a human entire."
+"We clamped down on the knowledge as best we could as soon as we realized we wouldn't be able to rule it out." Jonas waved his hand. "Not important, though, because the last part of that package is a complete description of a human neural system and a basic description of our physiology. A complete map of our DNA, should they even want to build an entire human."
 
 "Whose DNA?"
 
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Ioan blinked and sat up straighter. "I don't remember hearing anything about tha
 
 "You're saying that it presents too great a risk to the continuity of the LV System?"
 
-"Ioan, you are very smart, but I need you to keep up if you're going to come away with interesting answers. Think through list of instructions that I mentioned."
+"Ioan, you are very smart, but I need you to keep up if you're going to come away with interesting answers. Think through the list of instructions that I mentioned."
 
 Ey tilted eir head, then frowned. "There's an Ansible on there, you said, right? They could theoretically upload that same manufactured construct to this System, right?"
 

writing/post-self/toledot/secession/phys/Yared/010.md

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Yared nodded, smiled as best he could, and bowed to the driver. It was the first
 
 In the back of the car, Demma greeted him with a warm smile of his own, while a rather severe looking woman leaned forward to shake his hand.
 
-"Yared, I'd like to introduce you to Councilor Aida Tamrat," Demma said, gesturing. "Aida, this is Yered Zerezghi, the author of the secession amendment."
+"Yared, I'd like to introduce you to Councilor Aida Tamrat," Demma said, gesturing. "Aida, this is Yared Zerezghi, the author of the secession amendment."
 
 "A pleasure, of course," she said. "Thank you for all of your hard work."