At the end of the book, Tycho decides to join the Artemisians without leaving a fork of himself behind. Due to standard Odist bullshittery, the way to upload to Artemis is in a small building labeled ‘Customs’ that has clearly seen better days. Sticking out from the roof is an old radio antenna, one of those trapezoidal ones made with angle irons and painted red and white stripes with a blinking helicopter light on top. It is on a stone plaza in the Italian style, but just beyond it is a desert in the style of the Sahara.
Ioan and May stepping to abandoned hike sim to talk about the Name (Doesn’t involve leaving through a door, but they are stepping into a sim)
-To avoid possible prying eyes, Ioan and May step away from home to an abandoned sim containing a mountain lake.
-Codrin watching Sorina leave during sunrise
Despite the fact that it would mean leaving behind eir partners, Codrin decides to send a fork to Artemis before it leaves, too. In order to try and leave the past behind without being too sad, the new instance decides to change as much as they can, winding up a shorter woman named Sorina wearing traditional Romanian garb (a white blouse with wide sleeves, embroidered at the cuffs and neckline, a plain white skirt, and a heavily embroidered fotă, a half-apron that covers the front and back of the skirt ref1 ref2). Codrin does this at sunrise in the prairie away from the house to keep from waking eir partners, and does it before they wake so that Sorina can leave before they learn of her, knowing that if she sticks around to say goodbye, she won’t be able to leave.
Ioan and May stepping to abandoned hike sim to talk about the Name (Doesn’t involve leaving through a door, but they are stepping into a sim)
+To avoid possible prying eyes, Ioan and May step away from home to an abandoned sim containing a mountain lake.
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