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<p>Ioan forked quickly, the new instance taking May by the elbow and guiding her carefully toward the bedroom, leaving #Tracker and Sarah to sit in stunned silence, watching them leave.</p>
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<p>There was a brief sensorium message, a few quiet words from eir fork, and ey nodded. “She panicked for a moment but is just going to disengage for a bit. She says to carry on since you and I might as well get to know each other, too. She’ll reschedule for the near future.”</p>
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<p>“Alright,” Sarah said, still frowning. “I know I said just chat, but I don’t think I can just let that go. Can you explain what just happened?”</p>
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<p>Ey sighed, nodded, and rubbed eir palms against eir pants. “She will wind up getting overwhelmed by emotion sometimes, once every six months or so. It’ll take her out for a few days then pass. She just got through one not too long ago — I think she contacted you the day after she got back.”</p>
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<p>Ey sighed, nodded, and rubbed eir palms against eir slacks. “She will wind up getting overwhelmed by emotion sometimes, once every six months or so. It’ll take her out for a few days then pass. She just got through one not too long ago — I think she contacted you the day after she got back.”</p>
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<p>“So this is another bout?”</p>
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<p>“No, I don’t think so. She’s been kind of depressed over the last few days, which is different than when she overflows. She says it’s not uncommon for her to ‘crash’ after really big events. She slows down and has a hard time enjoying things, which I suspect is common with depression. But also, little things will trigger large emotional reactions.”</p>
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<p>Sarah nodded. “That makes sense, at least. ‘Trigger’ is probably the right word, there. That certainly looked like a trauma response. One she was trying very hard to control, of course, but I could almost see the adrenaline rush through her.”</p>
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<p>“Shush, you’re fine. I think she, of all people, understands a reaction like that.” Ey picked up another square of paper from the stack and began trying to fold again. “But that’s enough talk of that for now. If you want dinner, you have to help me get at least one of these made.”</p>
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<p>There was a brief flicker of some emotion ey couldn’t decode on Artante’s face. It was almost a smile, almost pride, almost contentment, but it was quickly replaced by the polite expression she seemed to wear at all other times. “It is not the time to have that conversation. We will soon, I suspect.”</p>
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<p>“It seems pretty easy to read between the lines on that answer,” Sarah said gently. “Though I don’t suppose it can be helped.”</p>
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<p>Artante spread her hands over the table, palms up. “As I said before, it would be impossible for the formal discussion to be the only context in which we communicate.”</p>
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<p>“Text and metatext,” Codrin mumbled, and with that, an idea dropped, fully-formed, onto em. Ey could feel the weight of it land on eir shoulders, the import of it digging into eir back like claws. Ey sat up straighter. “With the understanding that there are correct times for conversations, may I give you information for you to access at those times?”</p>
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<p>“Text and metatext,” Codrin mumbled, and with that, an idea dropped, fully-formed, onto em. Ey could feel the weight of it land on eir shoulders, the import of it digging into eir back like claws. Ey sat up straighter. “With the understanding that there are correct times for conversations, may I <em>give</em> you information for you to access at those times?”</p>
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<p>The fourthracer looked to Turun Ko, who raised its chin in assent. “You may, recorder Codrin Bălan.”</p>
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<p>Ey nodded, hoping against hope that ey even had the ACLs to do as ey’d planned. Ey knew that ey could create as much paper as ey wanted, though ey wasn’t sure whether ey’d be able to create paper with text already on it. Ey knew that ey could create notepads, but had yet to try creating a notebook, as ey hadn’t finished the current one yet.</p>
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<p>Nothing for it but to try.</p>
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<p>Ey watched as the skunk’s eyes widened, gaze darting between em, Turun Ka, and the book in Turun Ko’s hands, now about half-finished. She sat down heavily on the chair and sagged against the back. “Well, fuck me.”</p>
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<p>“We are pleased-excited to witness mutual-shared enjoyment,” Turun Ko said, voice bouncing between registers in amusement.</p>
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<p>The fourthracer laughed. “I am not surprised. Will you join us in finding them?”</p>
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<p>Codrin led them down the hall past their rest area. The hallway continued beyond, though it ended at a flat wall that ey supposed must be an exit when the place was not in use for a convergence. To the side, though, there was an alcove, windows on the three walls looking out over a garden. It seemed perpetually sunny, and every time ey’d seen them there, the thirdracer had been sunning themself while they chatted.</p>
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<p>“<em>Nahi,</em> recorder Codrin Bălan,” Stolon said, then sat up straighter, bowing from a seated position to the other delegates. “<em>Rehas’ les.</em>“</p>
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<p>“<em>Nahi,</em> recorder Codrin Bălan,” Stolon said, then sat up straighter when they noticed Turun Ko, bowing from a seated position to the other delegates. “<em>Rehas’ les.</em>“</p>
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<p>Ey bowed. “Apologies for interrupting. I figured I’d get us all together as suggested.”</p>
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<p>“<em>Ka, ka,</em>” Stolon said, bobbing their head.</p>
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<p>There was a ping against eir sense of time, a sensation of insistent pressing.</p>
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<p>Ey frowned. Ey wanted nothing more than to write this down, to do as ey always had done and incorporate this into a story, but something about this meeting seemed to preclude that possibility. Something about it was meant only for this space.</p>
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<p>“I see,” ey said. “And that you have two endings implies that there is a goal, <em>anem?</em>“</p>
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<p>“<em>Anem.</em>” Turun Ko lifted its snout. “You will join-converge with us as fifthrace or you will not.”</p>
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<p>There was silence within that bubble of fast-time, and ey imagined that it was em, Tycho, and Sarah struggling to process this information while the two Artemisians waited patiently for the next step in the conversation — or perhaps the next item on the checklist.</p>
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<p>There was silence within that bubble of fast-time, and ey imagined that it was em, Tycho, and Sarah struggling to process this information while the three Artemisians waited patiently for the next step in the conversation — or perhaps the next item on the checklist.</p>
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<p>The pressure to ask the correct question weighing down eir shoulders, Codrin nonetheless stood up straighter. “Is there a correct ending?”</p>
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<p>A smile tugged at the corner of Artante’s mouth, leading to a sense of relief within em. Ey suspected that em asking that very question might have been an item on their list.</p>
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<p>“<em>Unot.</em> The endings share equality-correctness.”</p>
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<p>“Will the decision be mutual?” Sarah asked.</p>
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<p>“<em>Ka,</em> representative Sarah Genet. The decision-ending must be mutual-shared before the Ansible-transmission-mechanisms will be unlocked-ungated-opened on both Castor and Artemis, <em>anem?</em>“</p>
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<p>“I suppose so,” Codrin said. “If one side, as a whole, did not want to join, they wouldn’t turn on their Ansible for general use.”</p>
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<p>“It has to be,” Codrin said. “If one side, as a whole, did not want to join, they wouldn’t turn on their Ansible for general use.”</p>
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<p>Artante nodded. “And the other, seeing that, might feel enough unease that the decision would become mutual, even if it had not started that way.”</p>
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<p>“Are we on the path towards becoming fifthrace, then?” ey asked.</p>
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<p>After a pause, Turun Ko said, “The list does not work-function in this way, recorder Codrin Bălan. The decision-inflection-point is preceded by a cloud-tree-collection-net-pile-table-graph of interconnected actions-items-steps.”</p>
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<p>“Do you two have steps of your own? Desired outcomes?”</p>
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<p>“You ask an interesting question,” Artante said, sounding thoughtful. “I want what’s best, and with each passing conversation between delegations, the meaning of ‘what’s best’ shifts. I’m sorry that I can’t put it more clearly than that, though I can assure you that I consider us to be together in this: what’s best for the Artemisians will also be what’s best for you.”</p>
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<p>“And you, Turun Ko?”</p>
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<p>It straightened up, joints and synthetic flesh shifting smoothly in a well-articulated dance, as though it was running through some internal checklist to correct its posture. “I want-desire stories. There is no combination of steps-items on our list that will not result-in-lead-to stories, so I will not be disappointed. I have received-learned many already, and I am content-happy-satisfied-fulfilled and will remain-continue-to-be so even if you become-turn-into the most exceptionally-stupendously boring-droll numbskulls-sad-sacks-dipshits in the visible-observable universe.”</p>
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<p>It straightened up, joints and synthetic flesh shifting smoothly in a well-articulated dance, as though it was running through some internal checklist to correct its posture. “I want-desire stories. There is no combination of steps-items on our list that will not result-in-lead-to stories, so I will not be disappointed. I have received-learned many already, and I am content-happy-satisfied-fulfilled and will remain-continue-to-be so even if you become-turn-into the most exceptionally-stupendously boring-droll numbskulls-sadsacks-dipshits in the visible-observable universe.”</p>
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<p>Codrin and Sarah both stared at the firstracer before laughing, joined by Artante. Even the fourthracer seemed taken aback by the sudden injection of humor.</p>
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<p>“I guess we have proven interesting, if nothing else,” Sarah said.</p>
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<p>“<em>Anem,</em>” Turun Ko confirmed, and the single word came out nearly a song.</p>
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<p>“<em>Anem!</em> Of course I will.”</p>
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