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<p>“Yeah, I think that’s a good bit of it. I’m finally looking forward to something. I’m finally eager, rather than just anxious.”</p>
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<p>She laughed, not unkindly. “I am happy for you, Dr. Brahe.”</p>
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<p>“Thank you.”</p>
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<p>The skunk sighed, and he was pleased to hear in it more contentment than frustration. “What do you think now? Are they real, or are we dreaming them?”</p>
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<p>The skunk sighed, and he was pleased to hear more contentment than frustration in the sound. “What do you think now? Are they real, or are we dreaming them?”</p>
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<p>“I don’t think it matters,” he said after a long pause.</p>
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<p>“No?”</p>
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<p>“No. Even if they’re a dream, I’ll join them. Even if this was all a dream, I’m happy to have been a part of it.”</p>
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<p><em>We will dream of stars,</em> Stolon had said, and he knew they would.</p>
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<p>“Yes. When one grows bored and unhappy with their current situation, yet with no clear idea of where to go next, it can lead to a feeling of restlessness. I mean this primarily in an existential way, rather than a practical one. Desiring getting away from scarcity to plenty is not what I’d call restlessness, but a desire to change one’s surroundings because one knows the current ones too well, for example, is. Boredom and ennui are other terms.”</p>
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<p>He tentatively tried labeling the idea that coiled within him with ‘restlessness’ and found that it fit all too well. It expanded, rose, pressed against his chest from the inside. Ey tried, unsuccessfully, to swallow it down. It was quickly becoming too much. Too big. Too strong to keep within him.</p>
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<p>“We are well aware of this feeling,” Artante was saying. “After millennia, one gets bored easily, and there’s–“</p>
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<p>“I want to stay here,” he interrupted, surprising even himself. “Even if we don’t become fifthrace or anything. Even if this is all a dream. I want to stay here. I want to stay on Artemis.”</p>
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<p>“I want to stay here,” he interrupted, surprising even himself. “Even if we don’t become fifthrace or anything. I want to stay here. I want to stay on Artemis.”</p>
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<p>Stunned silence fell around the table. Even he felt some of that shock. The words were out of his mouth before he’d even had the chance to check them for truth, and yet they bore as much truth as any mathematical theorem that he knew. They were <em>true.</em> They were <em>correct.</em> </p>
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<p>“I also want for us to be fifthrace, I mean,” he added, voice quieter. “I want this convergence to wind up with that ending of the two. I want to join you, and I want us to join you.”</p>
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<p>“Tycho,” True Name said, voice low. “I understand that the talks are long, but I think there is time yet for that decision.”</p>
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<p>“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night,” he finished, grinning. “That was the last thing I said to myself before uploading. It’ll be the last thing I’ll say before I leave Castor.”</p>
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