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<li class="done3"> <a href="local/codrin/005.html">Codrin Bălan</a> — Tycho#Tasker, Sarah, have dinner with Codrin, Dear, Dear’s partner, talk about jobs, what they used to do, how odd it is to have one. Tycho gets message re: Artemisian culture and importance of time-bending, and shares with table, Tycho says TN refuses to accommodate on Castor. - 2324</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="local/codrin/005.html">Codrin Bălan</a> — Tycho#Tasker, Sarah, have dinner with Codrin, Dear, Dear’s partner, talk about jobs, what they used to do, how odd it is to have one. Tycho gets message re: Artemisian culture and importance of time-bending, and shares with table, Tycho says TN refuses to accommodate on Castor. - 2324</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="local/tycho/006.html">Tycho Brahe#Artemis</a> — Tycho watches news disseminate with True Name, learns of various reactions. - 2222</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="local/tycho/006.html">Tycho Brahe#Artemis</a> — Tycho watches news disseminate with True Name, learns of various reactions. - 2222</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="local/codrin/006.html">Codrin Bălan</a> — Walk with Dear, talking about what to expect/not expect (actual understanding may take decades, some other stuff), Dear admits that this might be one it’s glad to sit out b/c its existence relies on being able to understand, they talk about that - 2082</li>
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<li class="done3"> <a href="local/codrin/006.html">Codrin Bălan</a> — Walk with Dear, talking about what to expect/not expect (actual understanding may take decades, some other stuff), Dear admits that this might be one it’s glad to sit out b/c its existence relies on being able to understand, they talk about that - 2082</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="ioan/002.html">Ioan Bălan</a> — True Name shows up - 1838</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="ioan/002.html">Ioan Bălan</a> — True Name shows up - 1838</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="local/tycho/007.html">Tycho Brahe#Artemis</a> — They work out a date, start making preparations e.g: building the DMZ out a bit, forks for who’s going, senses how little input he will have but keeps to himself, letting #Tasker know to talk with Codrin back at house on prairie - 2174</li>
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<li class="done2"> <a href="local/tycho/007.html">Tycho Brahe#Artemis</a> — They work out a date, start making preparations e.g: building the DMZ out a bit, forks for who’s going, senses how little input he will have but keeps to himself, letting #Tasker know to talk with Codrin back at house on prairie - 2174</li>
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<h1 id="ioan-balan-2346">Ioan Bălan — 2346</h1>
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<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="err">Convergence T-13 days, 15 hours, 57 minutes (transmission delay: 7.23 days)</span>
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<p>Ioan knew that it would be quite a while yet before eir and May’s forks merged back down. Time Is A Finger Pointing At Itself, the director of the play was quite strict but she also drank like a fish and clung jealously to some remnant of productions she’d remembered from more than two centuries ago, so it had become a comfortable rhythm for Ioan, May, and any other actors who wished to join to follow her to a pub that served strong drinks and greasy food.</p>
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<p>Ioan knew that it would be quite a while yet before eir and May’s forks merged back down. Time Is A Finger Pointing At Itself, the director of the play was quite strict but she also drank like a fish and clung jealously to some remnant of productions she’d remembered from more than two centuries ago, so it had become a comfortable rhythm for Ioan, May, and any other actors who wished to join to follow her to a pub that served strong drinks and greasy food.</p>
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<p>Ey had been planning on a simple dinner on eir own, perhaps catching up on some reading, but with this knowledge and the fact that May was now here with em, the plan evolved into something more involved. Staying inside didn’t feel right. Something about the news had em in mind of stars, in mind of looking up to the sky, so they wound up grilling burgers out on the patio and talked as they watched the stars above, sitting there in the house’s back yard.</p>
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<p>Ey had been planning on a simple dinner on eir own, perhaps catching up on some reading, but with this knowledge and the fact that May was now here with em, the plan evolved into something more involved. Staying inside didn’t feel right. Something about the news had them in mind of stars, in mind of looking up to the sky, so they wound up grilling burgers out on the patio and talked as they watched the stars come out one by one, sitting there in the house’s back yard.</p>
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<p>The burgers had long been finished and the grill long since put away when Ioan felt an automated sensorium ping of someone entering the house, followed shortly by a real message from who had just arrived.</p>
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<p>The burgers had long been finished and the grill long since put away when Ioan felt an automated sensorium ping of someone entering the house, followed shortly by a real message from who had just arrived.</p>
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<p>She did not give em time to react, nor even to stand. Ey had only managed to turn to look to the door opening out to the patio before the skunk stepped out onto the concrete, lit only by the string of lights tucked beneath the overhanging deck.</p>
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<p>She did not give em time to react, nor even to stand. Ey had only managed to turn to look to the door opening out to the patio before the skunk stepped out onto the concrete, lit only by the string of lights tucked beneath the overhanging deck.</p>
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<p>“I…what? True Name?”</p>
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<p>“I…what? True Name?”</p>
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<p>After a moment, May leaned back, rested her paws on those shoulders, and said, “But please leave and do not ever, <em>ever,</em> come to my house again.”</p>
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<p>After a moment, May leaned back, rested her paws on those shoulders, and said, “But please leave and do not ever, <em>ever,</em> come to my house again.”</p>
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<p>Late spring was for picnics. This was, ey was assured, a universal truth.</p>
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<p>Late spring was for picnics. This was, ey was assured, a universal truth.</p>
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<p>Once the rains had calmed down and before the oppressive heat began to drift lazily in, this was the time for those who are in love to drag a thick blanket out onto the prairie, park next to one of Codrin’s cairns, and share sandwiches and fizzy drinks. This was the time for parking in the sun, laying back on the blanket, heads together and feet radiating outwards, sharing in small silences and comfortable conversation.</p>
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<p>Once the rains had calmed down and before the oppressive heat began to drift lazily in, this was the time for those who are in love to drag a thick blanket out onto the prairie, park next to one of Codrin’s cairns, and share sandwiches and fizzy drinks. This was the time for parking in the sun, laying back on the blanket, heads together and feet radiating outwards, sharing in small silences and comfortable conversation.</p>
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<p><em>“There is no reason that aliens should interrupt this,”</em> Dear had stated plainly and then dragged its partner off to the kitchen to make sandwiches and bottle up gins and tonic to bring out to the prairie.</p>
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<p><em>“There is no reason that aliens should interrupt this,”</em> Dear had stated plainly and then dragged its partner off to the kitchen to make sandwiches and bottle up gins and tonic to bring out to the prairie.</p>
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<p>All the same, this picnic was more muted than usual, and when they settled onto their backs, Dear’s ears tickling the tops of their heads, the conversation felt careful, as though all words should veer around the topic that was on everyone’s minds.</p>
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<p>All the same, this picnic was more muted than usual, and when they settled onto their backs, Dear’s ears tickling the tops of their heads, the conversation felt careful, as though all words should veer around the topic that was on everyone’s minds.</p>
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<p>A bit less than three weeks after first contact, and the entire LV seemed to be talking about nothing else. Dear had even postponed the opening to its new show. News from Tycho was that, from day one, the Odists had been working on and shaping the news.</p>
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<p>A bit more than two weeks after first contact, and the entire LV seemed to be talking about nothing else. Dear had even postponed the opening to its new show. News from Tycho was that, from day one, the Odists had been working on and shaping the news.</p>
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<p>Codrin suspected that this had come when it did solely due to the transmission delay from L<sub>5</sub>, and, given the news that Ioan had relayed, ey did not doubt that this tight control was for good reason — or at least what True Name considered good reason.</p>
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<p>Codrin suspected that this had come when it did solely due to the transmission delay from Legrange, and, given the news that Ioan had relayed, ey did not doubt that this tight control was for good reason — or at least what True Name considered good reason.</p>
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<p>Ey had kept that note to emself.</p>
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<p>Ey had kept that note to emself.</p>
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<p>The news of True Name visiting Ioan and May Then My Name was not, in and of itself, surprising. Ey had suspected she would do as much as soon ey had read anxiety in her expression at the mention of May Then My Name. She had surely sent message back to L<sub>5</sub> within seconds of em telling her such.</p>
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<p>The news of True Name visiting Ioan and May Then My Name was not, in and of itself, surprising. Ey had suspected she would do as much as soon ey had read anxiety in her expression at the mention of May Then My Name. She had surely sent message back to L<sub>5</sub> within seconds of em telling her such.</p>
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<p>It was the reaction that Ioan described that bore the surprise. True Name was a touchy topic with one of eir partners, and the cold hatred of one of its cocladists was…well, ey could read melancholy in the fennec’s face as easily as any other emotion. Ever since news of May Then My Name’s thoughts on her down-tree instance had made their way across the light-days of distance, there had been more of that. There had been days of silence, days of tears, days of walking the prairie for hours at a time. When pressed, it would simply say, <em>“She is the best of us.”</em></p>
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<p>It was the reaction that Ioan described that bore the surprise. True Name was a touchy topic with one of eir partners, and the cold hatred of one of its cocladists was…well, ey could read melancholy in the fennec’s face as easily as any other emotion. Ever since news of May Then My Name’s thoughts on her down-tree instance had made their way across the light-days of distance, there had been more of that. There had been days of silence, days of tears, days of walking the prairie for hours at a time. When pressed, it would simply say, <em>“She is the best of us.”</em></p>
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<p>So today, they mostly lay in silence. It was not unpleasant, for the sun was on high and the temperature was perfect and ey could simply lay there with those ey loved.</p>
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<p>So today, they mostly lay in silence. It was not unpleasant, for the sun was on high and the temperature was perfect and ey could simply lay there with those ey loved.</p>
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<p>It was Dear, of all of them, who broke the silence.</p>
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<p>It was Dear, of all of them, who broke the silence.</p>
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<p><em>“I have been thinking about something that Sarah said.”</em> It sounded content enough, which Codrin was pleased to hear. <em>“She said that we should prepared to not be able to understand them for their inhumanity.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“I have been thinking about something that Sarah said.”</em> It sounded content enough, which Codrin was pleased to hear. <em>“She said that we should prepared to not be able to understand them for their inhumanity.”</em></p>
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<p>“What about it?” its partner murmured. More than content, they sounded sleepy.</p>
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<p>“What about it?” their partner murmured. More than content, they sounded sleepy.</p>
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<p><em>“There is much we can learn about semiotics from them. We have the ability to guess, but vanishingly few chances to check. If they are truly alien from us, we may be able to confirm many hypotheses that we have had for centuries by now about how a different mind can form and hold ideas.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“There is much we can learn about semiotics from them. We have the ability to guess, but vanishingly few chances to check. If they are truly alien from us, we may be able to confirm many hypotheses that we have had for centuries by now about how a different mind can form and hold ideas.”</em></p>
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<p>“Different environment, different <em>Umwelt</em>, you mean?” ey asked.</p>
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<p>“Different environment, different <em>Umwelt</em>, you mean?” ey asked.</p>
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<p><em>“No no, that term applies to those who are alike but have a different environment. Our environments up until now have not even been connected. We have completely different semiospheres, do we not? We cannot even make assumptions about how they form their ideas, how their semiosis works, at least not at first. It could be that there are key differences in how they are able to take in information and make meaning of it.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“No no, that term applies to those who are alike but have a different environment. Our environments up until now have not even been connected. We have completely different semiospheres, do we not? We cannot even make assumptions about how they form their ideas, how their semiosis works, at least not at first. It could be that there are key differences in how they are able to take in information and make meaning of it.”</em></p>
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<p>“Are there problems in that area that need solving?” Codrin asked.</p>
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<p>“Are there problems in that area that need solving?” Codrin asked.</p>
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<p><em>“Perhaps we can learn more about sensoria,”</em> it said, shrugging. <em>“For those who desire children, perhaps there are implications within that which will allow them to experience that.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“Perhaps we can learn more about sensoria,”</em> it said, shrugging. <em>“For those who desire children, perhaps there are implications within that which will allow them to experience that.”</em></p>
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<p>“Do you want children, then?”</p>
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<p>“Do you want children, then?”</p>
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<p><em>“Good Lord, no.”</em> It laughed. <em>“I did not wind up with that desire. That is something for other elements of the clade. I am sure that Hammered Silver and her stanza will pounce on the idea.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“Good Lord, no.”</em> It laughed. <em>“I did not wind up with that desire. That is something for other elements of the clade. I am sure that Hammered Silver and her stanza would pounce on the idea.”</em></p>
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<p>Its partner laughed. “I thought not. Besides, can you imagine a synthesis of the three of us? A historian chef that forks like mad.”</p>
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<p>Its partner laughed. “I thought not. Besides, can you imagine a synthesis of the three of us? A historian chef that forks like mad.”</p>
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<p>“I don’t know how much of a historian I am anymore,” ey said. “But doubtless they would keep my love for books.”</p>
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<p>“I don’t know how much of a historian I am anymore,” ey said. “But doubtless they would keep my love for books.”</p>
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<p>Ey picked the pebble up from where it had landed on eir sarong and tossed it back at them. “Well, go in and take a nap, then. I think it’s walking off the sandwiches and gin for me.”</p>
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<p>Ey picked the pebble up from where it had landed on eir sarong and tossed it back at them. “Well, go in and take a nap, then. I think it’s walking off the sandwiches and gin for me.”</p>
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<p>They tossed the pebble at Dear in turn. “Back to work with you?”</p>
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<p>They tossed the pebble at Dear in turn. “Back to work with you?”</p>
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<p><em>“Perhaps. I will send a fork with each of you.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“Perhaps. I will send a fork with each of you.”</em></p>
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<p>As fox and historian walked out into the prairie, Codrin finally worked up the courage to ask Dear the question it had wanted to ever since their conversation earlier. “Do you wish you were a part of the emissaries?”</p>
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<p>As fox and historian walked out into the prairie, Codrin finally worked up the courage to ask Dear the question it had wanted to ever since their conversation on semiotics. “Do you wish you were a part of the emissaries?”</p>
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<p><em>“No.”</em> Its response was flat and immediate. <em>“I have curiosity about the knowledge, but no desire to actually experience that.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“No.”</em> Its response was flat and immediate. <em>“I have curiosity about the knowledge, but no desire to actually experience that.”</em></p>
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<p>“You don’t have to answer, but do you know why?”</p>
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<p>“You don’t have to answer, but do you know why?”</p>
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<p>It thought for a moment, then shrugged. <em>“My existence relies on understanding and responding to the actions and emotions of others. I will wait until there is a way for us to understand, and then I will experience it if I am able. If I am not, then I will simply revel in the story that you write.”</em></p>
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<p>It thought for a moment, then shrugged. <em>“My existence relies on understanding and responding to the actions and emotions of others. I will wait until there is a way for us to understand, and then I will experience it if I am able. If I am not, then I will simply revel in the story that you write.”</em></p>
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