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<p>“Or maybe they’re already over,” Douglas said.</p>
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<p>“A gloomy thought. I would like to hope that they are going quite well. Codrin is there being a Bălan, Tycho is there being a nerd, this Sarah Genet is there being a whatever a Sarah Genet is like, Why Ask Questions is there being a shithead.” She wrinkled her nose. “And True Name is doing her best to control the whole thing.”</p>
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<p>Ioan was pleased to see the mildness of the skunk’s expression. It really did seem like many of those overwhelming emotions had burned themselves out over the last few days.</p>
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<p>“It’s weird,” Douglas said. “Every now and then, I’ll hear about something from one of the LVs that’s anchored to a certain time and I’ll remember, “Oh shit, yeah, they’re billions of kilometers away by now”, and then I have to spend some time trying to conceptualize that distance.”</p>
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<p>“It’s weird,” Douglas said. “Every now and then, I’ll hear about something from one of the LVs that’s anchored to a certain time and I’ll remember, ‘Oh shit, yeah, they’re billions of kilometers away by now’, and then I have to spend some time trying to conceptualize that distance.”</p>
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<p>Ioan nodded. “The transmission delay throws a wrench in things, doesn’t it? I was just thinking about that on Secession day. We were celebrating and it sounds like they were, too, but we didn’t learn about their party until a week later.”</p>
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<p>“The thing that always catches me off guard is that our days do not seem to line up any longer,” May said around a bite of sandwich. “I mean, they do, but when the delay is off by half a day, we start getting messages at shit o’clock in the morning. It is a strange feeling.”</p>
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<p>“Exactly.”</p>
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<p>“I have been thinking,” Answers Will Not Help said. “Perhaps some of them were not biological races. They did not say people or species.”</p>
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<p>“AIs, you mean?”</p>
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<p>She shrugged. “Or something. It might also be a caste thing. You will notice that there are two firstrace emissaries, one of which is the leader, and then secondrace and fourthrace only get representatives, no titles. There are many possibilities.”</p>
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<p>After a pause, he asked, “And is that “We welcome you” an invitation to join them?”</p>
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<p>“Maybe,” Jonas said. “We don’t know yet. We’re going to keep talking to them and try and get a better feel for it. If it means “You’re welcome to join us”, that’s certainly better than “We welcome you because you have no other choice”. We’re working on it.”</p>
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<p>After a pause, he asked, “And is that ‘We welcome you’ an invitation to join them?”</p>
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<p>“Maybe,” Jonas said. “We don’t know yet. We’re going to keep talking to them and try and get a better feel for it. If it means ‘You’re welcome to join us’, that’s certainly better than ‘We welcome you because you have no other choice’. We’re working on it.”</p>
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<p>Tycho rubbed his face tiredly. “Way above my pay grade.”</p>
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<p>True Name laughed. “It is, yes.”</p>
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<p>“Any thoughts on the names?” Jonas asked.</p>
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<p>He felt heat rise to his cheeks, but nodded all the same. “The rest, I don’t know. They all sound different, I guess. The fourthrace one is the only other one with two names.”</p>
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<p>“We cannot make any real guesses, ourselves,” True Name said. “We have been told that a stolon is a botanical term, but that is likely only a coincidence.”</p>
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<p>“Well, only other thing I can think of is that they ask for confirmation on all actions taken. What are you going to say to those?”</p>
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<p>True Name’s eyes grew distant as, he imagined, she accessed an exo with the response text prepared. “To the first, “We will orient as described and accelerate 0.00014c”. To the second, “Instructions received, integration commencing immediately, estimated time to completion 428 hours”. To the third, “Areas prepared”. To the fourth, “Preparing party, we will duplicate and be ready to send on an agreed upon time”.”</p>
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<p>“Anything for the “We welcome you” or the list of names?”</p>
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<p>“We will repeat the “We welcome you” message, and it will be signed with your name,” Answers Will Not Help said.</p>
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<p>True Name’s eyes grew distant as, he imagined, she accessed an exo with the response text prepared. “To the first, ‘We will orient as described and accelerate 0.00014c’. To the second, ‘Instructions received, integration commencing immediately, estimated time to completion 428 hours’. To the third, ‘Areas prepared’. To the fourth, ‘Preparing party, we will duplicate and be ready to send on an agreed upon time’.”</p>
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<p>“Anything for the ‘We welcome you’ or the list of names?”</p>
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<p>“We will repeat the ‘We welcome you’ message, and it will be signed with your name,” Answers Will Not Help said.</p>
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<p>He stood up so quickly it made him dizzy. “What?”</p>
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<p>The other three laughed, True Name eventually continuing, “It will be signed “The Only Time I Know My True Name Is When I Dream of the Ode clade, leadership”. We will send them the complete list of names when it is confirmed. You need not worry, Tycho. Answers Will Not Help was just being a snot, as Jonas so eloquently put it.”</p>
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<p>The other three laughed, True Name eventually continuing, “It will be signed ‘The Only Time I Know My True Name Is When I Dream of the Ode clade, leadership’. We will send them the complete list of names when it is confirmed. You need not worry, Tycho. Answers Will Not Help was just being a snot, as Jonas so eloquently put it.”</p>
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<p>He remained standing, swaying slightly and trying to blink away dancing black spots. “I think…I think I need to lay down.”</p>
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<p>The skunk nodded, stood, and took him by the elbow. “You likely do. You have been awake for almost forty-five hours. We have a room prepared for you.”</p>
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<p>Jonas stood as well, dusting off his slacks, and shook Tycho’s hand. “Welcome aboard. And hey, congrats on first contact.”</p>
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