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<p>Ey put on eir best smile. “Though yes, she told me that she knew there were still old forks around, but that she’d left them to their own devices and knew nothing about them, so she’s surprised to have met you.”</p>
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<p>“How very diplomatic,” he replied, grinning. “Well, I can assure you that the pleasure was all mine.”</p>
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<p>“So why am I here?”</p>
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<p>Jonas shrugged. “You mean aside from the fact that I get to see your face when you talk about your skunks? It’s fun dragging people round.”</p>
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<p>Jonas shrugged. “You mean aside from the fact that I get to see your face when you talk about your skunks? It’s fun dragging people around.”</p>
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<p>Restraining the urge to bridle at ‘your skunks’, ey gave a hint of a bow. “And what can you tell me about this meeting? I imagine you’ve got some grand plans about surprising True Name with your ideas for the future, but if nothing else, it’d help me to know what I’m getting into before I get into it.”</p>
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<p>“Oh, excellent question!”</p>
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<p>Ey posted the cap of eir pen and nodded for Jonas to continue.</p>
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<p>“I think you will.”</p>
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<p>“And why’s that?”</p>
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<p>“Because you love to hear yourself talk,” ey said. “And because Zacharias is right. This is almost cartoonishly evil, and villains love talking about their grand schemes. I’m ready for your monologue.”</p>
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<p>Jonas raised his eyebrows and a slow grin spread over his features. “You see, this is why I like you, Ioan. The whole Bălan clade, that is. You hit that sweet spot between patient and impatient where you can stay calm, but you you don’t just wait forever.”</p>
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<p>Jonas raised his eyebrows and a slow grin spread over his features. “You see, this is why I like you, Ioan. The whole Bălan clade, that is. You hit that sweet spot between patient and impatient where you can stay calm, but you don’t just wait forever.”</p>
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<p>Ey waited.</p>
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<p>“Alright, then, a bit of a preview.” He finished half of his drink in a few swallows. “There’s a bunch of changes coming in the pipeline–“</p>
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<p>“This AVEC?”</p>
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<p>Zacharias frowned, but Jonas was already nodding, “Got it in one. That’s right at the top of the list. See, that one requires some hardware changes that neither of the LVs are going to be able to manage, and that puts us in a unique position, here. Suddenly, we differ from the LVs in a fundamental way. I really can’t overstate how big of a deal this is, Ioan.”</p>
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<p>“Suddenly we have to prove our greener grass to those phys-side?”</p>
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<p>“Right. The direction that we need to take with Lagrange can’t just be the same old one we’ve been taking before. In this, True Name and I disagreed.” He shrugged, rocking his glass gently back and forth on the table before taking another sip. “She wanted continue on her path of subtlety, I disagreed.”</p>
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<p>“Right. The direction that we need to take with Lagrange can’t just be the same old one we’ve been taking before. In this, True Name and I disagreed.” He shrugged, rocking his glass gently back and forth on the table before taking another sip. “She wanted to continue on her path of subtlety, I disagreed.”</p>
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<p>Ey snorted. “Disagreed? You tried to assassinate her, Jonas.”</p>
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<p>“What are bullets but a disagreement?”</p>
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<p>Ioan rolled eir eyes.</p>
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<p>“Oh, so like normal, then.”</p>
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<p>She sat up in eir lap and poked em in the chest with a dull claw. “Rude.”</p>
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<p>Ey grinned. “Well, okay, not stress-shedding, just normal shedding.”</p>
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<p>She scrubbed a paw at her flank until she came up little bit of shed fur to sprinkle over eir front. “Yes, yes. But I can say the same for you, my dear. A year ago, I do not think I could have pictured her giving you a goodnight kiss.”</p>
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<p>She scrubbed a paw at her flank until she came up with a little bit of shed fur to sprinkle over eir front. “Yes, yes. But I can say the same for you, my dear. A year ago, I do not think I could have pictured her giving you a goodnight kiss.”</p>
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<p>Covering for the heat rising to eir cheeks by brushing the errant fur off eir front, ey shrugged. “I’m used to skunks being all touchy, thanks to you.”</p>
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<p>“Yes, but True Name?”</p>
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<p>“I’m not sure she’s that anymore,” ey said carefully. “So I guess you’re right. I couldn’t imagine the True Name of a year ago giving goodnight kisses to anyone, much less you and me.”</p>
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<p>“Another time,” ey mumbled, pushing eir face into her soft fur, coarser guard hairs tickling eir cheeks. “I can’t imagine I’m going to be able to sleep tomorrow night, so we might as well get some tonight.”</p>
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