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<p>“You can be both,” ey said, laughing. “Even skunks can contain multitudes.”</p>
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<p>“You can be both,” ey said, laughing. “Even skunks can contain multitudes.”</p>
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<p>She beamed proudly.</p>
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<p>“Different subject. Did Dear tell you about the other part of Codrin’s decision? About Sorina?”</p>
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<p>“Different subject. Did Dear tell you about the other part of Codrin’s decision? About Sorina?”</p>
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<p>“It did, yeah. What did Codrin have to say about her?”</p>
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<p>“It did, yes. What did Codrin have to say about her?”</p>
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<p>“Eir letter read like someone struggling not to cry,” ey said. “Ey sounded crushed. From the sounds of it, they were together only ten minutes and ey still felt like ey lost a good friend.”</p>
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<p>“Eir letter read like someone struggling not to cry,” ey said. “Ey sounded crushed. From the sounds of it, they were together only ten minutes and ey still felt like ey lost a good friend.”</p>
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<p>“That, and knowing some version of emself would never see her partners again. I think there needs to be a new word for the empathy one has for someone who is oneself and yet not,” May said, nodding. “It is the same feeling I have for True Name. Ey is not leaving eir partners behind, and yet ey feels that empathy with Sorina, who is. I am not struggling with the same problems that True Name is, and yet I am not so different from her that I cannot share in some of that understanding.”</p>
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<p>“That, and knowing some version of emself would never see her partners again. I think there needs to be a new word for the empathy one has for someone who is oneself and yet not,” May said, nodding. “It is the same feeling I have for True Name. Ey is not leaving eir partners behind, and yet ey feels that empathy with Sorina, who is. I am not struggling with the same problems that True Name is, and yet I am not so different from her that I cannot share in some of that understanding.”</p>
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<p>“I’ll have to start digging through etymologies for a good one.”</p>
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<p>“I’ll have to start digging through etymologies for a good one.”</p>
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<p>The skunk grinned, dotting her nose to eirs. “I do not see how they could not, my dear. Is that not what exploration is? Do we not both dream?”</p>
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<p>The skunk grinned, dotting her nose to eirs. “I do not see how they could not, my dear. Is that not what exploration is? Do we not both dream?”</p>
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<p>“I know. I just don’t know if the same is something I’d like to do. I’ve got some thoughts on directions I might head instead, though. I’ve been talking with Sarah about it, and will tackle it deliberately.”</p>
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<p>“I know. I just don’t know if the same is something I’d like to do. I’ve got some thoughts on directions I might head instead, though. I’ve been talking with Sarah about it, and will tackle it deliberately.”</p>
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<p>The fox nodded. <em>“Of course, my love. I would be surprised if you were anything but deliberate.”</em></p>
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<p>The fox nodded. <em>“Of course, my love. I would be surprised if you were anything but deliberate.”</em></p>
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<p>Ey laughed and bumped eir shoulder against its own. “Of course.”</p>
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<p>Ey laughed and bumped eir shoulder against its own. “Of course.”</p>
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<p><em>“This is all so delightfully exciting, is it not? I was worried at first that the drama would be too much. Aliens! Political summits in space! Imagine.”</em> The fox giggled. <em>“And it was dramatic, I suppose, but it has settled down into exciting. Aliens, yes, but boundless new knowledge. Political summits in space, yes, but also a mingling of societies that we could not possibly comprehend.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“This is all so delightfully exciting, is it not? I was worried at first that the drama would be too much. Aliens! Political summits in space! Imagine.”</em> The fox giggled. <em>“And it was dramatic, I suppose, but it has settled down into merely exciting. Aliens, yes, but boundless new knowledge. Political summits in space, yes, but also a mingling of societies that we could not possibly comprehend.”</em></p>
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<p>Sarah laughed and raised her coffee mug. “To the proper amount of excitement.”</p>
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<p>Sarah laughed and raised her coffee mug. “To the proper amount of excitement.”</p>
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<p>Dear hoisted its own mug as thought it was an ale-filled tankard. <em>“Precisely, my dear!”</em></p>
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<p>Dear hoisted its own mug as thought it was an ale-filled tankard. <em>“Precisely, my dear!”</em></p>
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<p>Codrin smiled, sipping eir coffee as ey watched. <em>Proper amount of excitement, indeed.</em></p>
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<p>Codrin smiled, sipping eir coffee as ey watched. <em>Proper amount of excitement, indeed.</em></p>
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<p>Codrin leaned in to kiss them on the cheek, still working on catching eir breath. “Yes. Definitely hash browns.”</p>
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<p>Codrin leaned in to kiss them on the cheek, still working on catching eir breath. “Yes. Definitely hash browns.”</p>
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<p>“Who’s idea was this?” Tycho asked, staring, unbelieving, at the heat-haze shimmer before him.</p>
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<p>“Who’s idea was this?” Tycho asked, staring, unbelieving, at the heat-haze shimmer before him.</p>
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<p>True Name grinned proudly. “A cocladist of mine came up with this. I would not recommend walking past the barrier. It is dreadfully hot beyond there, even for a desert creature such as her.”</p>
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<p>True Name grinned proudly. “A cocladist of mine came up with this. I would not recommend walking past the barrier. It is dreadfully hot beyond there, even for a desert creature such as her.”</p>
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<p>He shook his head, looking once more from the ground to the sky. They stood on a well trimmed lawn at the edge of a forest, the shade provided by lingering oaks and birches delightfully cool amid the just-shy-of-too-warm day. The grass continued right up to a shimmering barrier of heat, where it quickly failed, a no-man’s-land of scrub lasting only a few feet before it fell away into sand. A true desert stretched out as far as he could see before him. Rolling dunes, painfully blue skies, mirages dancing along the horizon.</p>
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<p>He shook his head, looking once more from the ground to the sky. They stood on a well trimmed lawn at the edge of a forest, the shade provided by lingering oaks and birches delightfully cool amid the just-shy-of-too-warm day. The grass continued right up to a shimmering barrier of heat, where it quickly failed, a no-man’s-land of scrub lasting only a few feet before it fell away into sand. Deep desert stretched out as far as he could see before him. Rolling dunes, painfully blue skies, mirages dancing along the horizon.</p>
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<p>So extreme was the temperature differential in so small a space that the barrier between the two, that shimmer of heat-haze, appeared to be a very literal wall extending as far as he could see in either direction, though after a few dozen yards, the forest crept right up to the barrier once more, impossibly dense, impassible.</p>
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<p>So extreme was the temperature differential in so small a space that the barrier between the two, that shimmer of heat-haze, appeared to be a very literal wall extending as far as he could see in either direction, though after a few dozen yards, the forest crept right up to the barrier once more, impossibly dense, impassible.</p>
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<p>And there, right in the middle of the clearing, sitting flush against the wall of heat, sat a low tollbooth. There was a glass-walled cubicle, large enough for one person to sit on a stool, huddling beneath a canopy, a small A/C unit gasping and rattling atop it. A red and white striped gate blocked a concrete sidewalk leading directly into the desert.</p>
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<p>And there, right in the middle of the clearing, sitting flush against the wall of heat, sat a low tollbooth. There was a glass-walled cubicle, large enough for one person to sit on a stool, huddling beneath a canopy, a small A/C unit gasping and rattling atop it. A red and white striped gate blocked a concrete sidewalk leading directly into the desert.</p>
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<p>The whole affair was dusty and tired, as though it had weathered a hundred sandstorms and would doubtless weather a hundred more, though it would never be truly clean again.</p>
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<p>“Oh? Did it say whether it would try to see one of their performances aboard Artemis?”</p>
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<p>“Oh? Did it say whether it would try to see one of their performances aboard Artemis?”</p>
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<p>“It was undecided, last I heard.”</p>
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<p>“It was undecided, last I heard.”</p>
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<p>“And the other delegates?”</p>
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<p>“And the other delegates?”</p>
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<p>True Name looked thoughtful. “I have not spoken with them since they left. My guess is that Turun Ka and Stolon will join. I know that Iska will not. I do not know about Turun Ko, but I would say that there is a good chance of Artante joining.”</p>
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<p>True Name looked thoughtful. “I have not spoken with them since they left. My guess is that Turun Ka and Stolon will join. I know that Iska will not. I do not know about Turun Ko, but I would say that there is a good chance of it and Artante joining.”</p>
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<p>“Stolon said they would join, yeah,” he said. “They want to make sure that they get to see more of the galaxy, and will happily spread themself out to do so. We’ll still remain in contact with Artemis for years after the Ansible connection closes.”</p>
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<p>“Stolon said they would join, yeah,” he said. “They want to make sure that they get to see more of the galaxy, and will happily spread themself out to do so. We’ll still remain in contact with Artemis for years after the Ansible connection closes.”</p>
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<p>“You will not be able to see the galaxy from here, if you do not remain. Are you okay with that?”</p>
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<p>“You will not be able to see the galaxy from here, if you do not remain. Are you okay with that?”</p>
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<p>“Yeah,” he said after a long pause. “I think I am.”</p>
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<p>“Yeah,” he said after a long pause. “I think I am.”</p>
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<p>They sat in quiet, then, finishing their coffees and then watching the ice melt in the mellow warmth of the day.</p>
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<p>They sat in quiet, then, finishing their coffees and then watching the ice melt in the mellow warmth of the day.</p>
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