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<p>Serene nodded. &ldquo;I have had many, many students, you must understand. It would not be surprising to me that at least one of them was that unlucky soul. However, I have come across three such cases so far.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Out of how many?&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Hundreds. However, I am still not done checking yet.&rdquo;</p>
<p>We walked in silence, then, digesting this, passing through the patch of grass and turned left at nearly a right angle to head to the next. One more until we hit the patch of shade.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Did you lose any instances?&rdquo; I asked.</p>
<p>She nodded. &ldquo;One, yes. She was working on a sim of her own, a wild park of sorts. She had not yet merged down, however, and her progress has since been lost. The sim remains incomplete. Posts of gray sprout from the forest floor where the trees were intended to appear, but I do not yet know what trees she intended to place. There is no leaf litter to indicate what she was planning, nor is there yet a sun in the sky to indicated latitude.&rdquo; The fix turned her head to smile back to us, expression once more wan. &ldquo;I am thinking that I will turn it into a memorial of sorts.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Rush said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d love to see it some day.&rdquo;</p>
<p>She simply nodded.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The feeds seem to be more chaotic,&rdquo; Dry Grass said after a few moments, dragging us back on topic. &ldquo;The world has taken to the perisystem to talk about what has happened. There, it is loud. It is filled with grief, yes, and increasingly more anger.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;And you said there hasn&rsquo;t been any word from phys-side except through Günay?&rdquo; I asked.</p>
<p>She shook her head. &ldquo;Not really, but that is not to say that some sense of the sentiment is not evident. She sounded excited.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Sedge snorted. &ldquo;Excited?&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Yes. You must understand, though, that more than a year has passed for them, as well, and this is perhaps the first that they have heard from us since then.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Oh, so excited that whatever they did worked?&rdquo;</p>
<p>Dry Grass nodded. &ldquo;Yes, that was my guess. She is disappointed, of course, that so many of us are missing, but she is excited that so many of us still remain. As I have said, her words have been careful and measured, but I can still tell that she was excited to be able to talk to us.&rdquo;</p>
<p>(Serene&rsquo;s swamp - talking about the current response out in the world)</p>
<p>(dandelion field - talking about the Odists, one loss, End Of Endings, though still checking on those who have left the clade, of which there are now a few, no word on E.W.)</p>
<p>(Reed&rsquo;s pagoda - more conversation among the stanzas now)</p>