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<p>Interview with Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled#Pollux<br />
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On the reasons for vesting entirely in the Launch<br />
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Codrin Bălan#Pollux<br />
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<p><strong>Codrin Bălan#Pollux:</strong> Thanks for agreeing to this, Dear. I think we’re both in a better spot for it now.</p>
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<p><strong>Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled:</strong> Of course, my dear. I would still like to discuss some of the same topics, but I will try to be more sensitive about them.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> No worries. We’ll make it work. I’ll start where I did last time, then. How are you feeling?</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> I am feeling relieved, I suppose. I am feeling relieved and tired.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> How so?</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> To say that a lot has happened in the last year is not quite true. Very little that counts as dramatic or anything has happened. There were interviews by the Bălan clade and that is about it. The most dramatic of those took place on the other LV however many billions of miles a way, and that was simply one of you getting bounced from a sim, yes? Nothing has happened that feels like it should lead to exhaustion, and yet I am quite worn out by the sheer amount of information uncovered.</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> To say that a lot has happened in the last eleven months is not quite true. Very little that counts as dramatic or anything has happened. There were interviews by the Bălan clade and that is about it. The most dramatic of those took place on the other LV however many billions of miles a way, and that was simply one of you getting bounced from a sim, yes? Nothing has happened that feels like it should lead to exhaustion, and yet I am quite worn out by the sheer amount of information uncovered.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> Emotionally exhausted, perhaps? Like you had to relive two hundred years in the space of one?</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> That is a large part of it, yes. Emotionally exhausted, worn out by the shift of understanding between our two clades. </p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> I suppose we’re pretty thoroughly intertwined now, aren’t we?</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> I will try. There is a lot that the Ode clade has done that has come to light in the last year, and while I cannot say that I was personally a part of much of that, I have also borne that knowledge. I also knew those secrets. Not having to hold them constantly at bay from even those that I am closest to has let off that pressure.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> Thank you for telling us, too. I know that True Name said we won’t see a huge reaction from this given her past work, but it’s still a relief to hear for me, as well. Now, do you have any additional thoughts on why you decided to join the Launch? I’m particularly interested on your thoughts on investing entirely in it, but I suspect those will come up in separate questions.</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> They almost certainly will, yes. Well. [pauses] Yes. I believe I said before that a large part of it is due to me being a hopeless romantic. A large part of that still stands. I am excited to see the galaxy, as it were, and it still tickles me to know that I am speeding away from Earth at some ludicrous speed and that there is absolutely no way back.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> Does that play into your thoughts on irreversibility.</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> [laughter] Of course, my dear. There is no way back. The Ansible on the launch is no longer facing Earth, by agreement with the launch commission that this be a one-and-done project, at least for now. If they create additional LVs down the line, then perhaps they will have separate conversations. There is no going and there is no back, yes? We are here, and we will never see Earth, the station, or the System again. That is very appealing to the romantic in me.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> Does that play into your thoughts on irreversibility?</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> [laughter] Of course, my dear. There is no way back. The Ansible on the launch is no longer connected with the one on Earth, by agreement with the launch commission that this be a one-and-done project, at least for now. If they create additional LVs down the line, then perhaps they will have separate conversations. There is no going and there is no back, yes? We are here, and we will never see Earth, the station, or the System again. That is very appealing to the romantic in me.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> I think you also said you were getting bored, too.</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> Yes. Life is a chronic condition, boredom is terminal.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> You’re a fox of many quips.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> [pause] I think because something about the way you said it made me worry that you thought that I didn’t love you, or maybe that you didn’t love me, or–</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> [angrily] Codrin.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> I’m sorry, Dear. I wanted to be up front about it.</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> [long pause, calmer] I understand. I… [pause] Perhaps you feel some of the same worry that you might be loved by none.</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> [long pause, calmer] I understand. I… [pause] Perhaps you feel some of the same worry that you might be loved by none. Perhaps it is a universal emotion.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> I think so, yeah. Having it said out loud kicked my anxiety up a notch, so I started to worry, “Wait, <em>am</em> I loved by none? Does Dear love me? Do both of them love me?” I know it’s not true, but that’s why I reacted in the way that I did.</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> [smiling] Yes. I apologize for yelling.</p>
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<p><strong>Codrin:</strong> It’s okay, Dear, promise. Now, I want to hear your thoughts on death.</p>
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<p><strong>Dear:</strong> I do not. Is that not fantastic? I do not know, and I love that about this particular future. I simply do not know.</p>
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