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<p>So out of place was the humor that it took em a moment to catch up. Ey laughed tiredly and shook eir head. “For theatre nerds, you guys have no imagination. Coffee?”</p>
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<p>May leaned up and dotted her nose against eir cheek. “You, my dear, are an utter delight.”</p>
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<p>True Name followed them into the den. “Please. I am going to fall over if I do not have something.”</p>
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<p>May flopped down onto her usual beanbag and rubbed her paws over her face while True Name sat at the dining table and Ioan made coffee. “If it is alright by you two, I am going to take a shower after coffee, as hot as I can stand,” she said. “And then we can work on the addition.”</p>
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<p>May flopped down onto her usual beanbag and rubbed her paws over her face while True Name sat at the dining table and Ioan made coffee. “If it is alright by you two, I am going to take a shower after coffee, as hot as I can stand,” May said. “And then we can work on the addition.”</p>
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<p>“Sure. I can start by mirroring our room and then stripping personal items while you’re getting cleaned up.”</p>
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<p>“Thank you both,” True Name said, tracing a claw along the wood grain on the table, an incredibly familiar gesture from years of living with May. “Again, I mean. I really do appreciate all that you are doing. Perhaps we can discuss boundaries and expectations later, but I am also looking forward to a shower.”</p>
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<p>Ioan nodded, finishing up the coffee prep — eirs black and both of the skunks’ sweet and creamy — and carrying the mugs to each of them. “I guessed,” ey said, setting one down in front of True Name. “Let me know if you need anything different.”</p>
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<p>Ey sat down carefully by May and held both of their coffees while the skunk scooted in close against em as usual before handing hers over. It felt good to be back in a more comfortable setting, back where May and em could could at least get close, even if everything still felt nerve-wracking. </p>
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<p>They drank in silence for a while, minus a thank you from each of the skunks, each of them doing their best to un-cringe from last day’s worth of anxiety.</p>
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<p>It worked a little too well, perhaps, as ey had to nudge May awake to finish her coffee and shower, and the prospect of levering emself out of the beanbag felt out of reach to em. All the same, ey needed to at least get the other room created, then perhaps the three of them could nap.</p>
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<p>It worked a little too well, perhaps, as ey had to nudge May awake to finish her coffee and shower, and the prospect of levering emself out of the beanbag felt out of reach. All the same, ey needed to at least get the other room created, then perhaps the three of them could nap.</p>
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<p>Once May was on her way to the shower, ey stood, finished eir coffee, and began to work. Ey dumped a series of intents into the sim. A doorway cut itself out of the wall opposite the doorway to eir own bedroom. A room extruded itself beyond the doorway, filling itself with all of the very same stuff that eirs and May’s contained. The sim’s boundaries whined in protest at not having enough for the windows to look out on and, too tired to think of any other options, ey mirrored the view of the yard as well so that True Name’s room looked out over the same grass and dandelions.</p>
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<p><em>If she stays for any real length of time, maybe I can just mirror the rest of the house and she can have a full setup.</em></p>
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<p>That was enough for now, though. Ey got started going through the room from top to bottom, wiping it of eirs and May’s presence. Anything that wasn’t the bed, the nightstands, and any other furniture was evaluated and either left for its decorative value or swiped away to nothingness. A damp May joined em partway through the exercise, and by the time they were done, the room was left clean and neat, sparsely decorated without being oppressively empty.</p>
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<p>“You okay?” ey murmured, once she was properly nestled against em, head tucked up under eir chin.</p>
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<p>“I am tired, Ioan. I am tired and I am stressed and I am…I do not know. Conflicted, perhaps.”</p>
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<p>“How do you mean?”</p>
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<p>She shrugged. “It is much easier to hate from a distance. Especially when one is built as I am.”</p>
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<p>She shrugged. “It is much easier to hate from a distance, especially when one is built as I am.”</p>
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<p>“To love?”</p>
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<p>She pressed her face against eir chest, sighed.</p>
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<p>Ey wanted to ask her how well that fit her monologue, that idea that to be built to love is to be built to hate yourself. Ey wanted to go back sixteen hours or however long it had been and kick Jonas’s ass. Ey wanted to go back twenty-four hours and warn True Name, to go back three and a half years and warn the True Name ey’d first gotten coffee with.</p>
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<p>“Naps all around,” True Name agreed. “Again, thank you two.”</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2022-07-29</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2022-08-13</p>
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