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<p>“Oh, it is!” I said. “I certainly wasn’t thinking I’d wind up with a bunch of feelings for someone I’ve only met a handful of times. I have years and years of memories of you two together, seeing each other every day, even you falling in love, and those have always gone to the instance that merged down with Marsh.”</p>
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<p>“Wait, so…everything?”</p>
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<p>I shrugged. “I left some of the merge to finish after I merged down, but then my down-tree quit and I was left with half of a merge complete just so I had less weighing on me, you know?”</p>
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<p>Dry Grass nodded. “Pending memories get uncomfortable after a while, yes.</p>
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<p>Dry Grass nodded. “Pending memories get uncomfortable after a while, yes.”</p>
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<p>“Right, and I had planned on discarding most of the memories about your relationship starting. I remember meeting you,” I said, nodding to her, “and then I set all of those memories on hold while I was getting ready to merge down. I knew you all had gotten together, of course, so I knew to stop there.”</p>
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<p>“Why, then, did you not choose to forget? To let those memories go?”</p>
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<p>I looked down at my plate, nudging my skewers into a neat row. “I don’t know. Stress? All of that stuff started happening with Marsh and it felt more important to focus on that, so I just incorporated everything in one fell swoop.”</p>
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<p>“So now you’re left with our feelings,” Cress said. The laughter had left its features, ad had the embarrassment. “You’re left with our relationship.”</p>
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<p>I nodded.</p>
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<p>“You’re left with our hyperfixation, more like it,” Tule followed on, laughing. “God, we were both just head over heels for you, love.”</p>
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<p>Dry Grass scoffed, hand to her chest in mock effrontery. “Are you not still?”</p>
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<p>“Nah.”</p>
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<p>“Nope, not at all.”</p>
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<p>She snorted, shook her head. “Do you see the guff I must put up with, my dear?” she asked me, a look of long-suffering pain on her face. “I build a relationship with sweat and blood, and am repaid in snark and tired humor.”</p>
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<p>“Don’t listen to her,” Tule said. “She’s just being a dramagogue.”</p>
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<p>I laughed. “I remember that, too,” I said. “And I guess that’s sort of the problem. I remember what it is about you that drew Cress and Tule, and I’m as much a Marshan as they are, so here I am, feeling awkward about being around you because I remember those months of hyperfixation, and then the comfortable normal that you settled into afterwards.”</p>
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<p>All three of them smiled, all three looked a bit bashful.</p>
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<p>“You’re all really cute together, is what I’m saying.”</p>
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<p>Dry Grass gave a hint of a bow. “We do try, I believe.” She reached forward to the box of empty skewers and tapped it against the edge of the box, cycling through options until she wound up with another set of sliced chicken to drop into the bubbling broth before her. “Are these memories of us, of Tule’s relationship, clashing with your lived experience to date? And how about those of Sedge and Rush?”</p>
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<p>More food sounded good, if only for something for me to do, so I tapped through options until I came up with a skewer of fish cakes — Dry Grass having requested we bypass my usual choice of thin-sliced pork for her own dietary restrictions — which I let slip into the bubbling pot. “Since Sedge incorporated Tule’s memories wholesale, they weren’t exactly tainted. And besides, they mostly tallied with those of Cress.”</p>
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<p>“‘Mostly’?” Cress asked, frowning.</p>
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<p>“Not in a bad way. There was some reconciliation to be done, that’s just the way of things. Where they didn’t line up, it wasn’t really a matter of the base feelings just the…uh, color, I guess. The different ways they felt.”</p>
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<p>It subsided back into its seat, nodding. “We talked a lot about this before–”</p>
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<p>“Oh, I know.”</p>
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<p>It smirked, continuing, “We talked a lot about it, and I was pretty sure we were on the same page, but I got hung up on worrying about that all the same.”</p>
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<p>Tule nodded, saying, “Right, and I know there’s only so much we can assure you that this is all earnest, that just because it was me that introduced you two, it is no less earnest.”</p>
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