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<h1>Zk | 012</h1>
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<h1 id="tycho-braheartemis-2346">Tycho Brahe#Artemis — 2346</h1>
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<h1 id="tycho-brahecastor-2346">Tycho Brahe#Castor — 2346</h1>
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<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="err">Convergence T-0 days, 0 hours, 28 minutes</span>
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<p>“This has…wait, don’t leave yet, #Assist,” Codrin said. “Is this really a clade-eyes-only message for both True Name and Turun Ka?”</p>
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<p>Both Sarah and Tycho sat up straighter.</p>
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<p>Ey shrugged, saying only, “It appears Codrin#Emissary has instructed the Artemisians on how to relay such in turn. I guess ey did a while back, actually, but this is the first time they’ve taken advantage of it. Or, well…” Ey trailed off.</p>
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<p>“Hard to tell how much time has passed up there?” Codrin#Artemis asked.</p>
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<p>“Yeah, haven’t the faintest. Anyway, I’m not sure how you want to pass it over. I figured a separate sheet would be easiest and you can decide from there. The news from #Emissary seems mostly to be about the Odists, so perhaps that’s what Turun Ka is getting. True Name got her own message in here.” Ey nodded over to the skunk, handing her a separate sheet</p>
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<p>Ey shrugged, saying only, “It appears Codrin#Artemis has instructed the Artemisians on how to relay such in turn. I guess ey did a while back, actually, but this is the first time they’ve taken advantage of it. Or, well…” Ey trailed off.</p>
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<p>“Hard to tell how much time has passed up there?” Codrin#Castor asked.</p>
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<p>“Yeah, haven’t the faintest. Anyway, I’m not sure how you want to pass it over. I figured a separate sheet would be easiest and you can decide from there. The news from #Artemis seems mostly to be about the Odists, so perhaps that’s what Turun Ka is getting. True Name has her own message in here.” Ey nodded over to the skunk, handing her a separate sheet</p>
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<p>Both of the Odists, having claimed the other table in order to have their own hushed conversation quickly moved over to rejoin the other three. They all watched as ey frowned, nodded, and skimmed quickly over the letter addressed to em.</p>
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<p>Eir frown deepened. “Thanks. Here, hold on–” Ey quickly jotted <em>Message received, passed on, more soon</em> on a slip of foolscap and handed it to the other Codrin. “Send this for now, just so we’re on the same page at as close to the same time as we can manage.”</p>
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<p>“Whatever that means,” ey said, laughing and pocketing the slip. Ey prodded em in the shoulder and added, “Dear threatened to beat me up because of you, so thanks for that.”</p>
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<p>Codrin#Artemis smirked. “Well, did it?”</p>
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<p>Codrin#Castor smirked. “Well, did it?”</p>
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<p>“No, of course not.”</p>
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<p>“Just have to pull harder, then.” Ey sighed and shook eir head. “Self-deprecating humor aside, tell them I miss them.”</p>
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<p>Ey nodded. “Of course. I’d fork and merge back down if I could.”</p>
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<p>Ey nodded. “Of course.”</p>
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<p>“I’ll see them soon enough, I guess. A few weeks, tops, though at this rate, I’m guessing only a matter of days. Tell–“</p>
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<p>“Codrin,” True Name said, nodding to the writer. “Please come with us. We have only a few minutes to sort this out before we start, and if you are correct about Turun Ka receiving similar information, I would like to plan.”</p>
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<p>Ey shrugged to Tycho and Sarah and stood to follow the two Odists to True Name’s partitioned rest area. Codrin#Assist stepped from the sim and back to Castor proper.</p>
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<p>Sarah laughed. “Well, okay. I’ll grant you that. Sounds like working with her has been kind of fraught. You’ve had more experience than I.”</p>
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<p>He rubbed his hands together and chewed on his lip thoughtfully. “It hasn’t been too bad. She’s been nothing but polite, and sometimes even nice. It’s hardly been a bad time. I think the biggest block has actually been squaring what I’m experiencing with what I’d assumed about her from the <em>History</em>.”</p>
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<p>“She didn’t exactly come off as kind or polite in there, no.”</p>
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<p>“Codrin mentioned something about that, about how they wanted the <em>History</em> released, but wanted to control how. Ey said that she’d acted as dramatic as she had in order to make the end result seem more sensational than reality.”</p>
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<p>“Codrin mentioned something about that, about how they wanted the <em>History</em> released, but wanted to control how. Ey said that she’d acted as dramatic as she had in order to make the end result seem more sensational than realistic.”</p>
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<p>Sarah laughed. “Well, I’d certainly call <em>that</em> subtle.”</p>
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<p>“Right,” he said, grinning. “So I guess it’s kind of making me reassess how I feel about them.”</p>
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<p>“The Odists?”</p>
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<p>“I’m sorry, Tycho, I really do want to answer your questions, but we really don’t have time.”</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2022-01-11</p>
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<p>“Your break-respite need not be brief-short,” Turun Ko said. “We are able-to-permitted skew the unison room to allow for longer rests.”</p>
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<p>“No!” This time, Answers Will Not Help did shout, voice shifting slightly as she slid this way and that away from common time. “Sorry. No, please do not — motes in the stage-lights — please do not modify time. No, no no no, please…”</p>
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<p>Iska’s expression had steadily grown more and more alarmed throughout the proceedings. “I do not–“</p>
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<p>“We will reconvene in fifteen minutes,” Turun Ka said. Nothing in its voice changed from how it normally spoke, though it having spoke was enough to quell Iska to silence. “Representative Artante Diria, representative Iska, please convene to address this issue moving forward from a technical and psychological standpoint. When we return, we will indeed move on to another subject.”</p>
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<p>“We will reconvene in fifteen minutes common time,” Turun Ka said. Nothing in its voice changed from how it normally spoke, though it having spoke was enough to quell Iska to silence. “Representative Artante Diria, representative Iska, please convene to address this issue moving forward from a technical and psychological standpoint. When we return, we will indeed move on to another subject.”</p>
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<p>Iska bowed their head in assent.</p>
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<p>Answers Will Not Help was sobbing in earnest now, stifling it as best she can with her face hidden behind the notebook she had before her but had yet to touch.</p>
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<p><em>“I cannot feel em”? Feel who?</em> Codrin thought, frowning.</p>
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<h1>Zk | 007</h1>
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<h1 id="codrin-balanemissary-2346">Codrin Bălan#Emissary — 2346</h1>
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<p>During the short break, Codrin helped True Name compose her letter and, after he sent it, simply sat with her in quiet. The skunk remained still throughout, sitting on the edge of the bed and staring down at her knees. She looked small, and some part of em wanted to sit beside her and try to comfort her, but for the emotional and social distance between them, as well as her still jittery form.</p>
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<h1 id="codrin-balanartemis-2346">Codrin Bălan#Artemis — 2346</h1>
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<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="err">Convergence T-0 days, 0 hours, 12 minutes</span>
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<p>During the short break, Codrin helped True Name compose her letter and, after ey sent it, simply sat with her in quiet. The skunk remained still throughout, sitting on the edge of the bed and staring down at her knees. She looked small, and some part of em wanted to sit beside her and try to comfort her, but for the emotional and social distance between them, as well as her still jittery form.</p>
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<p>And so ey simply sat at her desk and watched her manage her breathing, keep her composure, meditate, or whatever it was that an Odist unbound did.</p>
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<p>Finally, ey reached out to offer a hand to the skunk to help her stand. “It’s time we start back, True Name.”</p>
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<p>She sighed, nodded, and waved eir hand away, standing on her own volition. “Thank you, Mx. Bălan. I appreciate your help.”</p>
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<p>The other Odist was not to be found in her room. She had apparently remained where she had been sitting before, arms crossed on the edge of the table with her head resting on them. Every time a shift in her form brought a jolt or an uncomfortable squirm, and yet she did not lift her head, even when True Name knelt down beside her to speak in hushed tones.</p>
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<p>The rest of the delegates arrived shortly after, Tycho and Stolon both looking quite happy. There was a moment’s shuffling as Tycho, Sarah, and Codrin were shifted down by one so that True Name could remain sitting by her cocladist.</p>
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<p>Even so, the meeting was slow to get started. There were a few questions asked by both sides about history, but they all felt very careful, well constructed, and circumspect. It was plagued by silences and subtle glances to where Answers Will Not Help rested her head on the table.</p>
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<p>“From the sounds of it,” Iska said. “Of the four organic species present, all began their projects of building embedding systems after a traumatic event. It seems to be a common feature of biological systems.”</p>
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<p>“From the sounds of it,” Iska said. “Of the four organic species present, all began their projects of building embedding systems after a traumatic event. It seems to be a common feature of biological systems. The desire to protect oneself or one’s species from trauma is a common feature of all life.”</p>
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<p>“We ran-existed in simulation space. There was no difference-change from post-biological life-existence and living in embedded form,” Turun Ko added. “We are unable to add-explain to the topic of trauma. Apologies.”</p>
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<p>True Name nodded. “We understand, recorder Turun Ko.”</p>
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<p>“If I may ask,” Codrin began. “Was there a period of adjustment for firstrace after–“</p>
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<p><em>All that may be, but what do I do with it?</em> ey thought. <em>And how the hell am I going to keep what I heard hidden and buried?</em></p>
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