From 12df776d9b417e144f46d305f4468b07490b0814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 22:45:23 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/mitzvot/018.html | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/018.html b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/018.html index 6875e7037..a0b3c381c 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/mitzvot/018.html +++ b/writing/post-self/mitzvot/018.html @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@

“I do not know yet, Ioan. It makes me too full of being, of time to be just one thing. It will likely take me several days to settle into…something. To settle into myself, whatever that means.”

They fell into silence again while Ioan and True Name finished their food and May looked down at her paws or into the fire.

“Thank you for joining me out here. I am both glad to be outdoors and intensely uncomfortable sitting on a fucking log,” she said, smiling tiredly. “I do not think that I will stay out here, though. The greater part of me demands a comfortable bed.”

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“Those fucking cots are the worst,” May grumbled, sounding forced in her casualness. “Like a hammock, but far worse.”

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“Those fucking cots are awful,” May grumbled, sounding forced in her casualness. “Like a hammock, but far worse.”

“I do not think that even End Waking enjoys them, so it is easy enough for the True Name part of me to win out on that subject.”

“What did he– what do you remember enjoying?” Ioan asked. “I want to hear the good things you have, now, too. I feel like we’re all tiptoeing around all the bad memories and conflicting feelings. Tell me something good.”

True Name raised her eyebrows, then let her gaze drift up to the stars. “I remember teaching myself to hunt, promising myself that I would start small with snares and then work up from there, thinking that I would not let myself eat until I could eat food that I had caught myself. I remember getting so hungry and weak by the third day that I pinged Serene to see if she could help. She laughed and ruffled my fur and called me a dumbass, saying that she had not included fauna because I had not requested it, so of course I did not catch anything. She brought me a hamburger and I ate it so fast I got sick.”

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True Name smiled more kindly than she had yet that night. “But you still thought of me. “I do not want her to die,” you said. You said that you do not know why you still care about me, and you said so to your cocladist perhaps not yet knowing that I would have that memory as well. You two are both meddlesome brats, but thank you for thinking of me.”

May tucked closer against Ioan’s side and buried her face in eir shirt to cry, making a rude gesture at her down-tree instance before hugging her arms around eir waist.

“I think that means ‘no problem’,” ey said. “But I don’t speak skunk all that– ow! She bit me!”

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The other skunk laughed. “It is no less than you deserve, I am sure. But come, once you are able to, let us walk to the rock at the end of the lake. I want to see the stars before we head back.”

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True Name laughed. “It is no less than you deserve, I am sure. But come, once you are able to, let us walk to the rock at the end of the lake. I want to see the stars before we head back.”