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<p>So, Debarre just kept working, kept fantasizing. He’d gotten the last of the canvas lashed down over the sides of the frame and was working on the front wall of the tent, so at least there was productivity to lean on, even if he couldn’t lean on his partner at the moment.</p>
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<p>So, Debarre just kept working, kept fantasizing. He’d gotten the last of the canvas lashed down over the sides of the frame and was working on the front wall of the tent, so at least there was productivity to lean on, even if he couldn’t lean on his partner at the moment.</p>
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<p>He whirled around to face the clearing when two sensorium pings in short order. The first came from End Waking, the word ‘company’ muttered quietly, and the second was a ping of arrival from the sim itself.</p>
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<p>He whirled around to face the clearing when two sensorium pings in short order. The first came from End Waking, the word ‘company’ muttered quietly, and the second was a ping of arrival from the sim itself.</p>
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<p>With the new tent, End Waking had made the default entry point around a small rise from home, leaving it a short walk around or a shorter but much steeper dash up and over the ridge.</p>
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<p>With the new tent, End Waking had made the default entry point around a small rise from home, leaving it a short walk around or a shorter but much steeper dash up and over the ridge.</p>
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<p>Debarre opted for the latter, nearly tumbling down the other side of the hill to where the form knelt in the clearing. His partner was just making his way through the trees on the opposite side, so they converged on the visitor at about the same time.</p>
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<p>Debarre opted for the latter, nearly tumbling down the other side of the hill to where the form knelt in the clearing. His boyfriend was just making his way through the trees on the opposite side, so they converged on the visitor at about the same time.</p>
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<p>May Then My Name was sobbing. It looked as though she had been for a bit, too, judging by the tear-tracks in the fur of her cheeks.</p>
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<p>May Then My Name was sobbing. It looked as though she had been for a bit, too, judging by the tear-tracks in the fur of her cheeks.</p>
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<p>There wasn’t much that he could think of to say, so he awkwardly shifted from a crouch to a kneeling position beside her, getting his arms around her shoulders and gently tugging her to slouch against him. Although he rarely had reason to be comforting to May Then My Name in particular, it was familiar enough from all the way back at the Crown Pub when Sasha’d come back from some break-up or another.</p>
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<p>There wasn’t much that he could think of to say, so he awkwardly shifted from a crouch to a kneeling position beside her, getting his arms around her shoulders and gently tugging her to slouch against him. Although he rarely had reason to be comforting to May Then My Name in particular, it was familiar enough from all the way back at the Crown Pub when Sasha’d come back from some break-up or another.</p>
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<p>“I will get water,” End Waking murmured, leaving the physical comfort to someone better built for such.</p>
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<p>“I will get water,” End Waking murmured, leaving the physical comfort to someone better built for such.</p>
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<p>“A nightmare, perhaps,” the other skunk murmured.</p>
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<p>“A nightmare, perhaps,” the other skunk murmured.</p>
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<p>“You and I have different resentments. I would say an unnerving dream that makes me all the happier to be what I am now.”</p>
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<p>“You and I have different resentments. I would say an unnerving dream that makes me all the happier to be what I am now.”</p>
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<p>“You are a better person than I.”</p>
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<p>“You are a better person than I.”</p>
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<p>Debarre through a twig at his partner. “No moping. You’re both good people. Jury’s out on True Name, but given that you two get so fucking upset whenever she’s around, I’m leaning towards not so good.”</p>
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<p>Debarre threw a twig at his boyfriend. “No moping. You’re both good people. Jury’s out on True Name, but given that you two get so fucking upset whenever she’s around, I’m leaning towards not so good.”</p>
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<p>End Waking smiled. It was slight, but he was pleased to see it all the same.</p>
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<p>End Waking smiled. It was slight, but he was pleased to see it all the same.</p>
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<p>“Qoheleth, poor, stupid man that he was, had much that he was correct about, but one thing that he completely failed to understand was growth,” May Then My Name mused. “There is plenty of growth, here. That is perhaps the one thing we have more than memory, the one thing that protects us from too much memory. All that time may still drive us mad, but at least we can grow to the point where we are no longer True Name.”</p>
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<p>“Qoheleth, poor, stupid man that he was, had much that he was correct about, but one thing that he completely failed to understand was growth,” May Then My Name mused. “There is plenty of growth, here. That is perhaps the one thing we have more than memory, the one thing that protects us from too much memory. All that time may still drive us mad, but at least we can grow to the point where we are no longer True Name.”</p>
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<p>“A-fucking-men.”</p>
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<p>“A-fucking-men.”</p>
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<p>She laughed. “Right? Thank you two for talking, though. I know it’s not really a pleasant topic, but it has helped me quite a bit.”</p>
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<p>She laughed. “Right? Thank you two for talking, though. I know it is not really a pleasant topic, but it has helped me immensely.”</p>
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<p>Debarre squeezed her around the shoulders. “Of course, skunk.”</p>
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<p>Debarre squeezed her around the shoulders. “Of course, skunk.”</p>
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<p>“You feel so much more than I do,” End Waking said. “So I cannot understand the ways in which you are torn. There is also much more than I think you are saying–“</p>
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<p>“You feel so much more than I do,” End Waking said. “So I cannot understand the ways in which you are torn. There is also much more than I think you are saying–“</p>
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<p>“There is, yes. Sorry.”</p>
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<p>“There is, yes. Sorry.”</p>
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<p>“–and so I cannot offer much in the way of advice, but I can welcome you to my forest and offer you company and a meal. Will you be staying for dinner?”</p>
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<p>“–and so I cannot offer much in the way of advice, but I can welcome you to my forest and offer you company and a meal. Will you be staying for dinner?”</p>
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<p>“Of course, my dear.” She hesitated, then added, “True Name has joined us for dinner these last few days, and I would like a break.”</p>
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<p>“Are you opposed to an early dinner, Debarre?”</p>
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<p>“Course not. If you cook, May Then My Name and I can get the cot in the tent.</p>
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<p>They broke from there. May Then My Name forking several times over to help him in repopulating the inside of the tent with the necessities While End Waking made corn griddle cakes and venison cutlets.</p>
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<p>“There’s still a lot we need to do in here, so we can’t drag everything in yet,” the weasel explained as they returned to where his boyfriend’s goods were stored under a canvas tarp. “But getting a few essentials in here will help in meantime. Hopefully just a few more days and we’ll be all set again. I think E.W. may kick me out at that point.”</p>
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<p>“So soon?”</p>
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<p>“He called me back in the middle of a solitary spell, remember?”</p>
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<p>She nodded. “Well, yes, but I had hoped that…well, I am sorry, Debarre. I imagine it must be difficult.”</p>
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<p>“A little. I miss him when I’m gone, but I usually merge back down and get to focusing on whatever #Tracker is up to, then re-fork when he’s up to having me around again.”</p>
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<p>“We are different in that respect, I guess. If Ioan requested six months of time away from me I think I would have a pretty rough time of it.”</p>
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<p>He laughed and ruffled a paw over her ears. “I believe it. Thankfully, ey doesn’t seem like the type.”</p>
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<p>She nodded gratefully. “Ey does not, no. I am just sorry that I was too heated to stick around and talk with em about this. Thank you again, Debarre. I needed to talk about it, just with someone who has an appropriate distance from the topic. I cannot overstate how terrifying what she said was.”</p>
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<p>“Uh, of course, May Then My Name. Can you tell me any more about it?”</p>
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<p>“Perhaps over dinner, my dear. I need food, and I need to talk to your boyfriend.”</p>
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<p>Dinner, it turned out, was not long in coming</p>
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<p>(( Over dinner, May brings up having EW merge down, turns into a whole big discussion. EW says he’ll think about it, and will talk it over with Debarre which will be next chapter ))</p>
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<p>(( Over dinner, May brings up having EW merge down, turns into a whole big discussion. EW says he’ll think about it, and will talk it over with Debarre which will be next chapter ))</p>
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