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<p>Do I Know God When I Do Not Remember Myself and Do I Know God When I Do Not Dream worked as a mismatched pair. When I Do Not Remember worked as a propagandist while When I Dream worked almost entirely on the perisystem, translating back and forth for her cocladists and finding the best way to worm her way through the intersystem text channels.</p>
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<p>Were ey pressed to name each of them without knowing this information, ey didn’t think ey’d be able to. Ey knew the three skunks of the clade and could readily tell them apart, but the rest simply looked like a gaggle of the very same woman: short, soft, round face and curly black hair. However, there were indeed differences there. Why Ask Questions was just a centimeter or two taller and more open of expression. When I Do Not Remember and When I Dream both had a hunch to their shoulders that ey could not quite explain; perhaps a posture that stuck after too much writing.</p>
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<p>As it was, ey could do eir best to guess, and when introductions made their way around the table, ey found eir guests to be correct to the last. </p>
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<p>((Some from each of them throughout))</p>
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<p>At last, the parade of bows and greetings out of the way, each of the twelve — for Jonas and Zacharias added to the stanza — pulled out a chair and sat down, though ey noted that End Waking didn’t sit so much as hover on the very edge of his seat. He still looked wide-eyed, feral.</p>
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<p>“Aaalright,” Jonas said, plopping his hands, palm down, on the table. “To business. I’m pleased to see you’re alive, but can’t say that I’m pleased to see you’re about.”</p>
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<p>“I imagine not, no,” True Name replied, folding her paws on the table before her. “From what Ioan says, you know the general facts of what I know. There has been a long-running plan, perhaps mostly operating as a back-up plan, to shift one or more of me to the side depending on the status of the System. This revolved around the use of Zacharias as a tool to shape my responses while the incomplete information kept me from recognizing this. Tell me, though. Are you leaning on the multiple-Systems-multiple-governments strategy?”</p>
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<p>“See you around?”</p>
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<p>“Fuck off.”</p>
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<p>She laughed and reached out to take Ioan’s hand in eir paw, then they stepped back home, followed closely by May holding End Waking’s paw.</p>
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<p>((Out on the plain b/c E.W.))</p>
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<p>There was a long moment of silence in the living room, then Ioan let out a ragged, pent-up breath, eir shoulders sagging. “Can someone tell me what the fuck just happened?”</p>
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<p>“Sasha found the one thing she could have done to piss off Jonas,” May said, looking at her appraisingly. “He went in thinking he’d take everything from her and left with no wind in his sails. Well done, my dear.”</p>
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<p>Sasha beamed and bowed with a flourish</p>
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<p>“You’re nuts,” Debarre said, rubbing his paws over his face. “You’re all fucking nuts.”</p>
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<p>Ioan gestured wildly toward the weasel. “Confirmation! Fucking nuts!”</p>
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<p>The three skunks laughed while ey and Debarre leaned across the table to shake hands.</p>
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<p>((What’s next))</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2022-07-09</p>
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