From ca6c997cf6e0c953bd0ac26fb22f74c9642e5356 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:50:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/001.html | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/001.html b/writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/001.html index f42a9767a..abe867f71 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/001.html +++ b/writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/001.html @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@

After that visit, Ioan had asked Dear about them. Its features darkened and it had averted its gaze. “We all have our ways of dealing with loss. She could seek change if she wanted, but…”

It was rare for the fox to leave the end of a sentence unsaid, but Ioan could not think of a way to ask it to continue.

While every guest was noteworthy in their own way, a few names stood out to em. Dear’s sibling instance, Serene; Sustained And Sustaining, arrived, a mad grin on her face as she ran directly at Dear and tackled it, the two foxes wrestling briefly on the ground before standing up and dusting themselves off again, both laughing.

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“I can’t believe you’re going to destroy this place, you asshole. I spent days on the grass alone!”

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“I can’t believe you’re going to destroy this place, you asshole. I spent weeks on the grass alone!”

Dear grinned lopsidedly. “It is not yours anymore, however, and I am a sucker for grand gestures.”

“Some gesture!”

“Asshole, remember?”

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Should old acquaintance be forgot
and auld lang syne?

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Ioan realized that ey was crying, that many in the circle were crying, and without any signal, the party as a whole burst into the chorus.

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Ioan realized that ey was crying, that many in the circle were crying, and without any signal, all within the circle burst into the chorus.

For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne.
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet, For auld lang–

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Before the final note of the song could be sang, Dear gave a jaunty salute, bowed with a flourish, and quit along with its partner and Codrin Bălan. The landscape around them crumbled into voxels, and those voxels joined together by powers of two, and with a soft chime, all the members of the party were shunted off to wherever they called home.

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Ioan stumbled and fell to eir knees on the parquet of eir entryway, May Then My Name standing, defiant against the change, beside em.

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Before the final note of the song could be sung, Dear gave a jaunty salute, bowed with a flourish, and quit along with its partner and Codrin Bălan. The landscape around them crumbled into voxels, and those voxels joined together by powers of two, and with a soft chime, all the members of the party were shunted off to wherever they called home.

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Ioan stumbled and fell to eir knees on the parquet of eir entryway, May Then My Name standing, defiant against the change in scenery, in air and light and gravity, beside em.

“What an asshole,” she laughed.