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<p>“I do not know whether any of you have explored the functionality, but forking is an act of intent. One projects the desire to fork and, when that intent is recognized by the System, the fork is created. Does that align with the mechanics of time skew?”</p>
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<p>Iska sat still and silent for a moment, and Tycho imagined a hidden frustration within them. While they’d been nothing but cordial throughout the visit so far, they had also stated plainly that they were uncomfortable with the lack of time skew and had refused the fork they were permitted in their rest area. He imagined that they’d like nothing more than to take their time coming up with the perfect response to this question in a fraction of a second, common time, but lacked the mechanism within the System.</p>
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<p>“That aligns with our experience. I would not have used the words ‘intent’ and ‘project a desire’ prior to hearing them. I would have said that one ‘remembers’ being at a set skew. One remembers being or having been at skew plus one, and then one is. One remembers having been at common time, or perhaps remembers sliding down from skew plus one to common time, and one does so.” After a hesitation, they added, “But the concepts map almost exactly, so I will gladly accept ‘intent’ and ‘project a desire’ as terms.”</p>
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<p>Codrin spoke up next. “My counterpart on Artemis described in a note to me that “common time feels like a pin in a lock clicking into place as you move faster or slower”. I am assuming that this is what you mean when you say “one remembers having been at common time”?”</p>
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<p>Codrin spoke up next. “My counterpart on Artemis described in a note to me that ‘common time feels like a pin in a lock clicking into place as you move faster or slower’. I am assuming that this is what you mean when you say ‘one remembers having been at common time’?”</p>
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<p>Iska bared their teeth, a gesture that the delegates had agreed must be a sort of smile. “The common time consensus sensation is provided as an aid to all consciousness-bearing entities, yes. I am told that, when one first experiences skew, it can feel, <em>lu</em>…slippery, perhaps. It can be difficult to aim for a skew and remember that exactly, so one slides toward it and may overshoot. I am nearly five thousand years old, Artemis reckoning, I have forgotten how it feels for skew to be slippery, but yes, that is why it exists.”</p>
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<p>“But since aiming for common time is so important, an aid is provided?” Tycho asked.</p>
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<p>“Precisely, scientist Tycho Brahe.”</p>
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<p>Tycho watched the exchange with mounting confusion before making note of yet another thing to ask Codrin about over break.</p>
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<p>He winced. “I was wondering how that’d go.”</p>
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<p>“Rough,” she said after a moment. “As soon as I got back to Castor, I immediately felt better, but no less tired. My memories of my time aboard Artemis are only just barely coherent. They are fractured and scattered. I could tell a clear story of our time there from start to finish, but much beyond that eludes me still.”</p>
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<p>Tycho set aside his empty glass and stretched out on the grass, laying on his back once more, arms crossed beneath his head. “I was worried about that, yeah. I can’t speak to the ease of merging, but I’m glad you made it through all the same.”</p>
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<p>He could hear the grin in her voice as she said, “I am pleased to hear that. The distance between “we are coworkers and should act as such while at work” and “I do not actually like you but have to tolerate you” is rather small, and I could not tell which it was with you.”</p>
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<p>He could hear the grin in her voice as she said, “I am pleased to hear that. The distance between ‘we are coworkers and should act as such while at work’ and ‘I do not actually like you but have to tolerate you’ is rather small, and I could not tell which it was with you.”</p>
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<p>“I like you,” he said, laughing at her easy humor. “You’re a little terrifying, but I respect you.”</p>
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<p>“Doubly pleased, then.”</p>
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<p>“How do you feel things went?”</p>
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<p><em>We will dream of stars,</em> Stolon had said, and he knew they would.</p>
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