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<p>Codrin grinned. &ldquo;Dear&rsquo;s an instance artist. Its entire existence is built around forking. If it did not fork, I&rsquo;m sure it&rsquo;d explode.&rdquo;</p>
<p><em>&ldquo;I would, yes, and you lot would have to clean it up.&rdquo;</em></p>
<p>Everyone around the table laughed.</p>
<p>&ldquo;How about you, Ms. Genet?&rdquo; True Name asked.</p>
<p>True Name began to turn her gaze on Sarah, but Tycho interrupted her before she could speak. &ldquo;How sure are we that this is real?&rdquo;</p>
<p>Silence, minus a pop from the candle flame in the center of the table. Codrin realized ey was holding eir breath. True Name&rsquo;s gaze bore down on Tycho with such intensity that the astronomer shied away from her.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I&hellip;sorry.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Please expand on that, Dr. Brahe.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I just mean&hellip;how sure are we that this signal is real? How sure are we that it&rsquo;s coming from the Dreamer Module and thus outside of Castor?&rdquo; He shrugged, still looking cowed. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been worried about the whole thing since it showed up, but the more I think about how long we&rsquo;ve been going and all the risks involved, what&rsquo;s the probability that it&rsquo;s just us dreaming that there are aliens out there?&rdquo;</p>
<p>The silence fell once more, and Codrin imagined True Name and Why Ask Questions both sending off rapid-fire sensorium messages.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It is not zero,&rdquo; True Name said after nearly a minute. &ldquo;Low, yes, but it is not zero.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Does that&ndash;&ldquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;There will be time, Dr. Brahe. Please do not worry. The best and brightest are working on this.&rdquo; She raised her glass, and in the meager light, Codrin could see that confident smile return. &ldquo;Yourself included.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Tycho nodded, lifting his wine glass an inch or so off the table in a token response to the toast.</p>
<p>&ldquo;How about you, Ms. Genet?&rdquo; The skunk asked. She had, Codrin realized, read the silence as well as ey could, finding the perfect moment to guide the conversation back on track. &ldquo;Assuming that all of this is indeed real, how do you feel about all of it?&rdquo;</p>
<p>She set her wine glass down, looking up to the stars. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if &lsquo;curious&rsquo; is an emotion, but that&rsquo;s at the forefront of my mind. I&rsquo;m not feeling anxious or scared, and I guess I&rsquo;m a little excited, but more than that I&rsquo;m just feeling curious about the whole venture. Will they look like us or will they look like, uh&hellip;Douglas, was it? Douglas Hadje? If we&rsquo;re to go visit them on Artemis, too, what will we look like? How will we talk? How will we empathize with each other?&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;You are a psychologist, yes?&rdquo;</p>
<p>She nodded. &ldquo;Yes. I think that&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m so fixated on trying to learn as much as I can. I&rsquo;m curious about what makes them <em>them</em>.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>&ldquo;No more shop talk until dessert,&rdquo; Why Ask Questions added. &ldquo;Or I will have Tycho bounce you from the sim. There is lasagna, and I will not have you spoiling that.&rdquo;</p>
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