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<p>“Nothing particularly new there. We’re still tuning the cost of sims, but the model for forking seems to be working well. We got the chance to test it during a recent hardware upgrade.”</p>
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<p>“How about sensorium messages?”</p>
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<p>“Proposal was accepted, and there’s an alpha in place. Want to try?”</p>
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<p>“Sure, why n– Holy shit, please don’t do that again.”</p>
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<p>“Sure, why n– Holy shit! Please don’t do that again.”</p>
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<p>And on and on.</p>
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<p>They’d made it about halfway around the lake before the discussion turned to True Name and Jonas.</p>
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<p>“Glad to hear the launch is a go. I’m curious to see if there will be any interruptions in service meanwhile.”</p>
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<p>“Hell,” True Name mused. “We could probably even make a spectacle out of it. If it is to become something important to the entirety of the System, might as well make it a holiday.”</p>
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<p>“We can even get out the fireworks!” Debarre laughed, the weasel bouncing ahead a few steps to turn and walk backwards in front of the rest of the group. “No need to worry about wildfires or anything.”</p>
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<p>True Name laughed. “When was the last time you even saw fireworks?”</p>
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<p>“Oh, I’ve never seen them. You were lucky, you had a big fuckoff lake you could launch them off of. It was just farms and orchards around us, so they were never allowed.”</p>
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<p>“Oh, I’ve never seen them. You were lucky, you had a big fuck-off lake you could launch them off of. It was just farms and orchards around us, so they were never allowed.”</p>
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<p>The skunk smiled inwardly. That the topic of secession had been accepted at face value and slid so easily into joking and chatter was the best she could have hoped for. Even Jonas looked happy.</p>
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<p>After to-do items had been handed out and the meeting wound down, Jonas waved to the group and disappeared from the sim. That left True Name five minutes to walk and talk with the others before she would meet up with him, so she spent a few just walking alongside Debarre, talking about the fireworks that she’d watched with their mutual friend during high school, the author of the ode from which she drew her name.</p>
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<p>Then she waved her goodbyes as well, and stepped from the spy-park sim to a cafe, the very same one that Michelle/Sasha had visited before she had forked that first time.</p>
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<p>“Lips are sealed.”</p>
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<p>She sipped at her mocha and leaned back in the chair, looking out onto the street, people both real and imaginary milling along the sidewalks. “I was thinking today that we may actually be the only politicians on the council.”</p>
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<p>“How do you figure?”</p>
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<p>“Well, Debarre is a friend. A smart one, but I think he mostly got the position by virtue of being associated with me and the lost. The S-R Bloc three are spooks. Zeke is a true-believer; good at what he does but without the faintest thought for how it goes over. user11824 is the opposite. He wears his anonymity like a brand, but does not actually do much.”</p>
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<p>“Well, Debarre is a friend. A smart one, but I think he mostly got the position by virtue of being associated with me and the lost. The S-R Bloc three are spooks who won’t even tell us their names. Zeke is a true-believer; good at what he does but without the faintest thought for how it goes over. user11824 is the opposite. He wears his anonymity like a brand, but does not actually do much.”</p>
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<p>“And then there’s us,” Jonas said, nodding. “The ex-WF rep and whatever the hell you are.”</p>
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<p>“I am just me.” True Name mused. “I do not know what that is, precisely, but I am just me. I am no longer Michelle, not by a long shot. I maintain none of her meekness and very little of her surplus of empathy. I have lost who she was to become myself.”</p>
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<p>Jonas nodded. “For the better, I’d say.”</p>
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<p>“Do you think she was not a good council member?”</p>
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<p>“Oh, she was fine. Good ideas, smart. What she lacked was direction, which you make up in spades.”</p>
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<p>“I am happy to hear that. Truly.” True Name raised her paper coffee cup in a toast to him. “There are some within the clade who have done the opposite, I am told. Praiseworthy has talked to them all, which is very her. I Am At A Loss For Images In This End Of Days has hardly left Michelle’s sim in weeks. She wound up with all of the empathy that I left behind.”</p>
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<p>“I am happy to hear that. Truly.” True Name raised her paper coffee cup in a toast to him. “There are some within the clade who have done the opposite, I am told. Praiseworthy has talked to them all, which is very her. Memory Is A Mirror Of Hammered Silver has hardly left Michelle’s sim in weeks. She wound up with all of the empathy that I left behind.”</p>
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<p>Jonas shrugged. “At least someone’s keeping Michelle company.”</p>
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<p>True Name said nothing, simply returning to watching the movement of the shoppers.</p>
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<p>“What’s next on your list, fuzzy?”</p>
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<p>“If you call me ‘fuzzy’ again, I will throw this fucking coffee in your face.”</p>
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<p>He laughed.</p>
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<p>“What is next? Probably keeping in touch with Yared and helping him draft the amendment. I am sure that most of it will be councilor Demma’s work, but that he has been given at least partial responsibility means that we will have a hand in it as well.”</p>
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<p>“What is next? Probably keeping in touch with Yared and helping him draft the amendment. I am sure that most of it will be councilor Demma’s work, but that he has been given at least partial responsibility means that we will — must — have a hand in it as well.”</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-12</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-25</p>
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<h1 id="true-name-2124">True Name — 2124</h1>
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<p>The Only Time I Know My True Name Is When I Dream was early to her meeting, and that, she figured was okay. She had picked, on a whim, the same pub that she’d met Jonas in some time back, the one that reminded her of The Crown Pub from years ago, with the flat beer and the uncomfortable booths, and she figured that Debarre, of all people, would appreciate this.</p>
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<p>True Name was early to her meeting, and that, she figured was okay. She had picked, on a whim, the same pub that she’d met Jonas in some time back, the one that reminded her of The Crown Pub from years ago, with the flat beer and the uncomfortable booths, and she figured that Debarre, of all people, would appreciate this.</p>
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<p>So, she ordered herself one of those beers that she loved to hate, sat down in a corner booth with a commanding view of the entrance, tail flopped over the edge, and waited.</p>
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<p>While she waited, she thought about all of the different reasons that Debarre might have asked to meet. There was always the possibility that the weasel had figured out just how deep she and Jonas had gotten in their maneuvering, though she suspected that that wasn’t the case. Debarre was smart, yes, but political adroitness was not his strong point. She had often considered that he had been let onto the council merely by his proximity to Michelle and connection with the lost.</p>
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<p>It could also be that he had further questions about why it was that Michelle had chosen the Ode as a clade scheme, and that perhaps he wanted to discuss why it was that all of the clade seemed so averse to mentioning the author of the poem.</p>
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<p>Life Breeds Life laughed. “Of course not. If we are to think long term, we must think in terms of decades to work in centuries. If we are lucky, we must think in terms of centuries to work in millennia. We have plenty of time.”</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-16</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-25</p>
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