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<h1 id="codrin-balan-2346">Codrin Bălan — 2346</h1>
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<p>It took both Dear and its partner to talk Codrin down from eir desire to simply get right to work.</p>
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<p>It took both both eir partners to talk Codrin down from eir desire to simply get right to work.</p>
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<p><em>“My dear, if, as he said, Tycho was going to take a nap, perhaps you ought to do the same.”</em></p>
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<p>“I know,” ey replied, shoulders sagging. “It’s hard to get out of that mindset of having to just work.”</p>
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<p>“I know it’s enjoyable,” the fox’s partner said. “But seriously, Codrin, even if you’re not going to take a nap, take a thermos out onto the prairie and walk for a bit. Tycho is going to need quite a bit of help, given what you told us of him–“</p>
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<p>“No, no. Come in. I haven’t been able to sleep since True Name left.” </p>
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<p>There was a small click and then a ray of further red light spread out from a doorway, showing a small hut nestled within the trees. Ey let emself be guided into the door, finding a sparsely decorated room — a desk, a bed, and a massive cork board nailed to the wall, covered in at least three overlapping layers of notes.</p>
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<p>“Thanks for having me,” ey said, sitting on the offered chair while Tycho claimed the edge of the bed. Once the door was shut, a switch shifted the red light to a normal, warm desk lamp. “I should’ve mentioned that I’d be coming over, first.”</p>
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<p>He waved away the apology. “I knew you’d be here, though I didn’t know when?”</p>
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<p>He waved away the apology. “I knew you’d be here, though I didn’t know when.”</p>
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<p>Codrin paused in the middle of unscrewing the lid to the thermos. “You knew?”</p>
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<p>“True Name said you would.”</p>
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<p>Ey frowned, finishing opening the thermos and offering Tycho one of the two mugs of coffee. “What did she say about me?”</p>
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<p>Codrin leaned back in the seat, thinking. “Sea People might be a reference to something from the Mythology, or it could be a reference to a theory about a marauding group of seafarers during the Bronze Age collapse. There was a bunch of talk about how this group had sacked much of the ancient near east and northern Africa, leading to the prolongation of the collapse.”</p>
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<p>Tycho’s eyes grew wide. “Do you think that’s what she’s getting at with the reference? That these are going to be some marauders coming to mess with the LV?”</p>
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<p>Ey shrugged. “Who knows. Probably both, honestly. Maybe there’s even some reference that we’re missing. She’s True Name, there really is no way of telling.”</p>
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<p>Nodding, Tycho scooted back on the bed until his back was to the wall, then brought his knees up to his chest. He looked small to Codrin, somehow diminished after the events of the last…goodness, had it only been a day? Diminished, yes, and younger, though he’d always looked as though he was not yet out of his thirties in his well-groomed salt-and-pepper hair and well-kept beard.</p>
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<p>Nodding, Tycho scooted back on the bed until his back was to the wall, then brought his knees up to his chest. He looked small to Codrin, somehow diminished after the events of the last…goodness, had it only been a day? Diminished, yes, and younger, though he’d always looked as though he was not yet out of his forties in his well-groomed salt-and-pepper hair and well-kept beard.</p>
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<p>They sat in silence for a while. Codrin could not guess what the astronomer was thinking about, though ey could see his eyes occasionally darting this way and that, as though connecting one idea to another in the air as well as in his head.</p>
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<p>On eir part, ey began structuring the project. There would have to be the journalistic aspect of it, much closer to that of the Qoheleth project than the History, but if the conservative Odists were also involved, there’d likely also be far more observing than researching.</p>
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<p>“Tycho,” ey said, startling him out of a reverie. “Do you know what an amanuensis is?”</p>
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<p>Would ey be able to argue one way or the other, to convince them to come with em or not?</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-29</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-10-23</p>
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