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<p>“I would trust no one else to get me all greased up,” the skunk said, leering.</p>
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<p>“You think you are so slick, Beholden, but you <em>had</em> to have gotten that from somewhere.”</p>
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<p>The playful banter continued, and while she would occasionally poke her snout in to make a quip of her own, Motes largely just savored her drink, bitter and sour and sweet, and the comfort of being nestled in between her two cocladists, thinking.</p>
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<p>She thought about the more than two centuries that had passed since A Finger Pointing had forked into the other nine instances of her stanza, that point when Motes and become Motes. She thought about the time that had followed when she remained essentially a version of A Finger Pointing who had taken up responsibility for sets and props, about those slow years of individuation and differentiation. She thought about the way she had started to toy with her appearance, her actions, her approach to life, and how she had steered herself into this focus on play and childhood.</p>
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<p>She thought about the more than two centuries that had passed since A Finger Pointing had forked into the other nine instances of her stanza, that point when Motes and become Motes. She thought about the time that had followed when she remained essentially a version of A Finger Pointing who had taken up responsibility for sets and props, about those slow years of individuation and differentiation. She thought about the way she had started to toy with her appearance, her actions, her approach to life, and how she had steered herself into this focus on play to reclaim a childhood that had, yes, been pleasant enough, and yet which could have been so much more.</p>
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<p>It had not always been smooth, to be sure. The compromises she made early on far outnumbered the ways in which she was earnest to herself. <!-- only ever doing this in private at first, friction from another stanza passed on through A Finger Pointing, the issues with leaning into a family dynamic --></p>
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