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<p>&ldquo;That always struck me as so manly, though.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Sounds fake.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Oh, I&rsquo;m pretty sure it is, but we&rsquo;re beholden to stereotypes.&rdquo;</p>
<p>She poked him in the side, grinning. &ldquo;You must be drunk if you&rsquo;re using words like &lsquo;beholden&rsquo;. Let&rsquo;s see. You could introduce me to Marsh, maybe.&rdquo;</p>
<p>She poked him in the side, grinning. &ldquo;You must be drunk if you&rsquo;re using words like &lsquo;mawkish&rsquo; and &lsquo;beholden&rsquo;. Let&rsquo;s see. You could introduce me to Marsh, maybe.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Reed shook his head. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s not on me, you know that. We have a one-way relationship.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;But he&rsquo;s your down-tree instance! You&rsquo;re patterned after him. You talk every year <em>at least</em> once, right? You&rsquo;ll talk to him later tonight, right? You have for the last hundred.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;No, probably not. If I hear from him directly, anything more than just a ping, I&rsquo;ll know something&rsquo;s gone horribly wrong.&rdquo; He shrugged &mdash; carefully, what with her head resting on their shoulder. &ldquo;Like I say, it&rsquo;s a one-way relationship. All I do is live my own life, right? I stay in touch with the rest of the clade to greater or lesser extent, but Marsh has his own life.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;No, probably not. If I hear from him directly, anything more than just a ping, I&rsquo;ll know something&rsquo;s gone horribly wrong.&rdquo; He shrugged &mdash; carefully, what with her head resting on his shoulder. &ldquo;Like I say, it&rsquo;s a one-way relationship. All I do is live my own life, right? I stay in touch with the rest of the clade to greater or lesser extent, but Marsh has his own life.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;He has several.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Right. We all fork, we all merge back down to whoever our down-tree instance is, and since I was forked from him, I merge down directly. He gets all our lives, one year at a time, but we don&rsquo;t really get anything in return.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He could hear the frown in her voice. &ldquo;How miserable.&rdquo;</p>