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@ -63,15 +63,23 @@ Ioan frowned. "Why am I happy with just this?"
May, tucked firmly against eir side, dotted her nose on eir cheek. "Different kind of nerd."
Ey laughed and nodded. "Pretty much, yeah."
"Pretty much, yeah." Ey laughed. "Besides, Codrin said they've been bandying about the idea that none of it's real, that they've been dreaming the whole thing. I'm more curious to see that play out than actually experience it."
End Waking continued around the circle. "How about you, May Then My Name?"
"It does not matter," End Waking said.
"What?"
"It does not matter whether or not it actually exists. If there is no ship named Artemis full of four races of aliens, the world which exists within Castor is still a new and interesting one. It is still a world worth exploring." The skunk shrugged. "The question of their existence beyond Castor is purely academic."
"Well, huh," ey said. "I'll have to pass that on to Codrin#Castor, then. Perhaps it'll ease some anxieties."
End Waking nodded, then continued around the circle. "How about you, May Then My Name?"
"A part of me wishes I had the chance, but it is a small part. The rest of me is smug in my decision to remain behind preventing me from doing so. I cannot change that decision and go meet them, and that in and of itself is exciting, is it not?"
The other skunk turned his gaze on Douglas.
"I think I'm probably the outlier here, in that I was --- or am --- kind of crushed by the fact that I won't be able to meet them." He poked a stick he'd found at the base of the fire. "Here I am, someone who spent eight years in university studying spaceflight, someone who did all he could to specialize in the System, and I'm stuck reading second-hand accounts on a five thousand year old civilization flying through space on a system of their own. I got over my frustration at having not uploaded in time for the launches years ago, but this is bringing it all back."
"I think I'm probably the outlier here, in that I was --- or am --- kind of crushed by the fact that I won't be able to meet them, even if they aren't real." He poked the tip of a stick at the base of the fire. "Here I am, someone who spent eight years in university studying spaceflight, someone who did all he could to specialize in the System, and I'm stuck reading second-hand accounts of a five thousand year old civilization flying through space on a system of their own. I got over my frustration at having not uploaded in time for the launches years ago, but this is bringing it all back."
"What would you do, had you the chance to meet them?" End Waking asked.