update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/mitzvot/034.md

@@ -92,7 +92,43 @@ Restraining the urge to bridle at 'your skunks', ey gave a hint of a bow. "And w
 
 "Oh, excellent question!"
 
-((Ioan asks whyyyy))
+Ey posted the cap of eir pen and nodded for Jonas to continue.
+
+"I said it was an excellent question, not that I'd answer you, Ioan."
+
+"I think you will."
+
+"And why's that?"
+
+"Because you love to hear yourself talk," ey said. "And because Zacharias is right. This is almost cartoonishly evil, and villains love talking about their grand schemes. I'm ready for your monologue."
+
+Jonas raised his eyebrows and a slow grin spread over his features. "You see, this is why I like you, Ioan. The whole Bălan clade, that is. You hit that sweet spot between patient and impatient where you can stay calm, but you you don't just wait forever."
+
+Ey waited.
+
+"Alright, then, a bit of a preview." He finished half of his drink in a few swallows. "There's a bunch of changes coming in the pipeline--"
+
+"This AEC?"
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+Zacharias frowned, but Jonas laughed, "Got it in one. That's right at the top of the list. See, that one requires some hardware changes that neither of the LVs are going to be able to manage, and that puts us in a unique position, here. Suddenly, the we differ from the LVs in a fundamental way. I really can't overstate how big of a deal this is, Ioan."
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+"Suddenly we have to prove our greener grass to those phys-side?"
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+"Right. The direction that we need to take with Lagrange can't just be the same old one we've been taking before. In this, True Name and I disagreed." He shrugged, rocking his glass gently back and forth on the table before taking another sip. "She wanted continue on her path of subtlety, I disagreed."
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+"Disagreed? You tried to assassinate her, Jonas."
+
+Ey shrugged. "What are bullets but a disagreement?"
+
+Ioan rolled eir eyes.
+
+"We disagree, then. It's like I said, though, sometimes mommies and daddies fight, Ioan. We've spent the past few years trying to hash it out. For all her focus on subtlety in guiding the system, she can be a real bitch when it comes to trying to get her point across."
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+"Bullshit," ey said flatly.
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+Jonas laughed. "Oh?"
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+"Yeah. A few reasons." Ey started ticking off points on eir fingers as ey spoke. "First, True Name didn't start down this path in the last few years that we've been learning from Artemis; she was a mess when she first got in touch with us around the convergence, so things were already in motion then. Second, The Guiding Council on Pollux is nearly a decade old now, predating the arrival of the Artemisians, and I think that's because third, you--" Ey nodded to Zacharias. "--apparently dropped everything on her across all three systems at the same time not that long after the launch. You got more openly together on Pollux, and as far as Codrin#Castor can find in the perisystem, you quit shortly after telling her, there. End Waking thinks --- and I agree --- you're trying to push each of the Systems in a different direction, politically. Maybe you think different political environments is more stable across societies separated by time. Maybe it's some giant experiment. Who knows."
 
 ((It's kind of as EW suspected, but in the sense that the culture of each System had already started to diverge; that's where he and TN differed. TN truly believed that they should just kinda keep being super gentle with each just to ensure continuity, but Jonas disagrees, thinks that he can see ways in which each System needs more or less active politics))