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<p>The combination of the fox’s white fur, glistening and iridescent, combined with the room and landscape was all so painfully postmodern. Ey didn’t think emself much of a pomophobe, but this was…intense, to say the least.</p>
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<p><em>“Hi Mx Bălan,”</em> the fox was saying. It seemed to speak in italics, though how, Ioan could not say. A sense. A sensation. <em>“I have a proposition for you.”</em></p>
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<p>Ioan grunted. The message was simplex, thank goodness. One way. No interaction required.</p>
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<p><em>“My name is Dear, Also, The Tree Was Felled — or just Dear — and I’m a member of the Ode clade. I’m an artist–“</em> The word seemed to come with a tone of distaste. <em>“–and…performer. I’m not just telling you this to, ah, toot my own horn, I believe the phrase is, but to underline the fact that I’m woefully unprepared for the situation at hand.”</em></p>
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<p>The fox smiled, looking tired, and continued. <em>“I need some help finding someone. Someone that doesn’t want to be found. It’s personally important, but also potentially damaging to the image of our entire clade.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“My name is Dear, Also, The Tree Was Felled — or just Dear — and I am a member of the Ode clade. I am an artist–“</em> The word seemed to come with a tone of distaste. <em>“–and…performer. I am not just telling you this to, ah, toot my own horn, I believe the phrase is, but to underline the fact that I am woefully unprepared for the situation at hand.”</em></p>
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<p>The fox smiled, looking tired, and continued. <em>“I need some help finding someone. Someone that does not want to be found. It is personally important, but also potentially damaging to the image of our entire clade.”</em></p>
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<p>Ioan furrowed eir brow.</p>
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<p><em>“This person has information, a name, that they have supposedly shared. We — the other members of my clade and myself — don’t precisely know if they actually did, unfortunately, we just have word from some perisystem notification that someone said the Name.”</em> Ioan could hear the capital letter.</p>
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<p><em>“I’m sorry, I’m getting sidetracked by details.”</em> The fox shook it’s head, ears flopping from side to side. <em>“I try to be prepared for conversations and messages like this, but I’m a little worked up. Excited, I guess. Can we meet?”</em> It listed an address. <em>“Even if only to talk. Even if you’re not interested, I’d still like to meet you. You seem neat.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“This person has information, a name, that they have supposedly shared. We — the other members of my clade and myself — do not precisely know if they actually did, unfortunately, we just have word from some perisystem notification that someone said the Name.”</em> Ioan could hear the capital letter.</p>
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<p><em>“I am sorry, I am getting sidetracked by details.”</em> The fox shook it’s head, ears flopping from side to side. <em>“I try to be prepared for conversations and messages like this, but I am a little worked up. Excited, I guess. Can we meet?”</em> It listed an address. <em>“Even if only to talk. Even if you are not interested, I would still like to meet you. You seem neat.”</em></p>
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<p>The message ended.</p>
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<p>Ioan lay in bed, thinking. It was still an hour before ey had to get up, and ey was loath to start the day before ey had to. Ey tried eir best to sleep for another ten minutes, at least, but eir mind kept slipping back to Dear’s request.</p>
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<p><em>Why me?</em> ey asked the backs of eir closed eyelids. <em>Why hire a writer who fancies emself a historian as…what, a private investigator?</em></p>
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<p>Ey forked and sent the copy of emself, #c1494bf, out to the meeting. Meanwhile, ey’d get some food, perhaps work on eir current project.</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2020-06-24</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2020-07-02</p>
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