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<h1 id="codrin-balancastor-2325">Codrin Balan#Castor — 2325</h1>
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<p>It took Codrin nearly a week to calm down enough to send True Name another message requesting to meet. It began with an apology.</p>
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<p>“True Name, I’d like, first of all, to apologize for becoming so heated during our last interaction,” ey said to er recording instance. “When confronted with information at such a scale, it is easy to become overwhelmed. I have since had time to read through both my notes from our meeting and the notes from Codrin#Pollux, and I think I understand better about what it was that you were trying to tell me. With that in mind, I’d like to meet up again to discuss some of the questions I didn’t get to previously, and to allow you to explain anything you would like to. Please let me know when you would like to meet. Thank you.”</p>
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<p>Dear was nowhere to be found, this time. The fox had spent much of the last week alternating between requesting to be left alone and crying against eir shoulder. The story of what True Name had told em in combination from the news from Pollux had struck a deep chord with it, and when it did speak on the issue, the conversations would quickly end with <em>“I did not know. I promise, Codrin, I did not know.”</em></p>
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<p>So ey waited, ey read, and ey calmed down, and then ey scheduled eir interview.</p>
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<p>The response came five minutes later, a simple ping of acknowledgement followed by a calm suggestion that immediately would be as good a time as any.</p>
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<p>This time, when Codrin stepped into True Name’s apartment, he was greeted by the skunk standing where she had the last two interviews, and this time, her expression was one of calm curiosity, rather that that initial warmth and its following coldness.”</p>
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<p>“Mx Balan, it is nice to see you again.”</p>
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<p>Ey bowed. “Of course. Again, my apologies for getting so heated last time. It’s a bit of a first for me, but that was a lot to handle all at once.”</p>
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<p>“I understand,” the skunk said, returning the bow before gesturing em down the hall once more. “We will have a calmer discussion this time, I believe.”</p>
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<p>They sat down on either side of the desk once more, and Codrin noted that there was now a single notepad.</p>
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<p>“Now, what would you like to ask me? I think it would go a bit more smoothly if you led.”</p>
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<p>Ey nodded. “Alright. Let’s start with Launch this time. It sounds like you were involved with that as well. Can you tell me about that?”</p>
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<p>“Of course. Is there any particular area you would like me to begin? Launch is a very broad topic.”</p>
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<p>“Well, Ne Jonas told Codrin on Pollux that we — that is, the Balan clade and the liberal elements of the clade — toward beginning this project. Is that true?”</p>
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<p>If the phrase ‘liberal elements’ or its implication that True Name must be one of the more conservatives had any effect on the skunk, she didn’t show it. Instead, she simply nodded. “Yes. A project such as this was deemed important in that it would add the spice needed to keep System life on its toes, much as Ne Jonas mentioned. Does that make sense.”</p>
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<p>“I suppose. When did the nudges come?”</p>
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<p>True name sighed and rested on her forearms on the desk. “To answer that question requires answering a different question. We began by canvasing various art institutes, actually. I do not know why we simply did not track Dear or May Then My Name or any of the Hammered Silver stanza, as that would probably have shortened our search a good deal. All the same, we came across an exhibition at the Simien Fang School of Art and Design on history and its context in the world of the System by one Ioan Balan. Do you remember that?”</p>
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<p>Codrin lifted eir pen and blinked up to the ceiling, dredging up the memories of eir own gallery exhibition, so many years ago.</p>
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<p>Too many years, ago, ey realized. “But that was in 2298.”</p>
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<p>True Name nodded. “It was, yes.”</p>
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<p>“But the launch project was proposed in 2306, wasn’t it?”</p>
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<p>“It was, yes,” the skunk repeated. “Publicly, at least. The project began as a cooperation between the Jonas clade and elements of the Ode clade in 2290.”</p>
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<p>“But you said that Michelle told you–“</p>
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<p>“To “Do something big. Do something worthy of us”, yes. There is nowhere in there that mentions Launch, of course, is there?”</p>
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<p>“I suppose, not,” ey said.</p>
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<p>“But perhaps we ought to talk about Michelle, as well. I also said in that interview that I no longer considered myself Michelle Hadje, having diverged too far from her to be the same person. That is why we had no real compunctions about influencing her as well.”</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-05</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-20</p>
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