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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>“New senses?”</p>
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<p>Ey could feel it shrug against the picnic blanket before it said, <em>“Perhaps. Perhaps they can sense radio waves, or perhaps, as suggested by their letter, they can sense time in some new way if they have fine-tuned control over how they experience it.”</em></p>
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<p>“Don’t we have forking and merging?” its partner asked. “Aren’t those new senses? Or at least sensations.”</p>
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<p>“Don’t we have forking and merging?” its partner asked. “Aren’t those new senses? Or at least sensations?”</p>
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<p><em>“In a way, I suppose, but we can learn them. They are tied to will, as one wills a fork to exist, and they are tied to memory, as one deals with the merger as though one is remembering the fork’s experiences.”</em></p>
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<p>Ey could feel the idea click into place. “But we may not even be able to experience that in the same way as them. We may learn it in a fundamentally different way. Maybe we won’t even be able to take part in it because we ourselves may be fundamentally different.”</p>
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<p>Dear sat up quickly, laughing. <em>“Yes, precisely! What an interesting problem. I am excited to see what all we learn.”</em></p>
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<p>The other two sat up. Codrin was not at all surprised to see the grin on the fox’s face.</p>
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<p><em>“This is, of course, all supposing that they really exist.”</em></p>
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<p>Their partner laughed. “Is this in doubt or something?”</p>
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<p>“Tycho said something at the first dinner, yeah,” Codrin said. “He asked if there was a chance that they weren’t real and that we might actually be dreaming the whole thing up.”</p>
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<p>“Wouldn’t that take an awful lot of dreaming to accomplish? Dream the incoming signal, dream our…uh, instruments, I guess, tracking Artemis, dream up this whole thing about races and such?”</p>
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<p>Dear shrugged. It looked quite pleased. <em>“Perhaps, but is that not an internally consistent dream? A dreaming mind that starts with the proposition of aliens and enough knowledge of our little world would be able to construct a consistent narrative to get us to where we are.”</em> Its grin widened. <em>“Or perhaps the System aboard Castor is losing coherency! Perhaps our world is falling down around our ears and we would never know!”</em></p>
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<p>Codrin laughed, watching the fox get more and more animated. “I’m pretty sure we’d know whether Castor is failing or not.”</p>
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<p><em>“Do not be so sure about that, my love. We have very little insight into the world outside of the LV.”</em></p>
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<p>“I’m pretty sure we have at least some,” eir other partner said. “Even if it’s just by away of our communications with Lagrange and Pollux.”</p>
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<p><em>“Yet even that may be a dream!”</em> Dear giggled. <em>“You see why this is interesting to me, though, yes? If Artemis is real, then we gain new insights into semiosis. If it is not, I get my beloved natural death.”</em></p>
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<p>Ey rolled eir eyes and shook eir head. “Foxes.”</p>
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<p><em>“You love me and you know it.”</em></p>
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<p>“Well, I mean, yes, but that was never in doubt.” Ey leaned back on eir palms. “Either way, I hope that they’re real. That feels like the better scenario for me.</p>
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<p><em>“There is much we can learn about them from their language, I expect. I am no linguist, but how they describe their control over time, should they chose to do so, will provide much insight into the ways something that is not us perceives and interacts with their world around them. They may process signs — signs in the semiotic sense — in a very different way, and we will be able to use that and apply it to the hypotheses that we have formed over the years.”</em></p>
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<p>“Are there problems in that area that need solving?” Codrin asked.</p>
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<p><em>“I do not know. It is something which is interesting to me for its own sake. 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 such.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“But, my dear, do be watchful. There will be two Odists on that mission, and they will share in some of my trepidation.”</em> It took eir hand in its paw and gave the back of it an affectionate lick. The gesture seemed to be one designed to minimize the anxiety in the statement, but eirs or Dears, ey could not tell. <em>“They share that same trauma. Be watchful and remember what I said: even True Name has emotions, even she will be affected.”</em></p>
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